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Caption: Sophograph - 1889
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Tin the necessif of human life; but if poe id « » »« ^ ^ ,ure can not satisfy man's animal wan. thej a. I, beautify and adorn structure of civilized socien ind contribute innocent pleasure to m a n . Iran sient life. The cultivation of these arts also tends to dive our thought, from the mere gratification of animal wants. It is then unk.nd to deny man t o d sources of pleasing occupation and reduce him to one who enjoys nothing be yond his bodily comforts and has no thoughts but of himself. Oftei »ed men do not appreciate or understand music. They can listen to the best perfoimance and hear it only as an agreeable or disagreeable noise. It fails in its object to arouse in them the feelings it would in some others, perhaps not so highly educated, and yet we esteem such persons none the less for not beinj. able to understand and enjoy it with us. We have just as much respect and can not feel and admire with us. Music, though the natural expression of innocence and joy, as illt iated in the singing of the birds, can also express the deepest and grandest emotions of the soul. The painter who has mastered his art can put upon canvas ich a likeness of the human face with the expression of joy. hope or despair as will cause us to pause in wonder before his masterpiece; the sculptor can so imitate Nature's various forms as to call forth our admiration; literature whether prose peech music, the grandest of all these, embodies the inward feelings whose effects are illustrated by the other arts. Of the great musicians Mozart is acknowledged bj ill to be the atest His early instructor was Hayden, a composer of great genius. N i i UQ« is overshadowed by '.hat of his pupil, but his compositions arc none the les worthy of note. He led a quiet and retired lif, content labor ai ambitious, the greatest figure of hi- little world and un. . tl then greatest figure of the great world I le did more to develop instrumental m than any of his predecessors, and compo the first mphonj I between him and his pupil Mozart one f the ra g ;: history of art. \! cart ranks next in the order time thl worth. He was born at Salzburg Januarj . of age. During this time he showed a reman bl. .il« r i he became olamou. At the age of six j p| | w.tl », even compos I small minuets Childho I's S| rtl he e, showed considerable interest in I studies, it music v ,,. sonly iter was also quite a skillful m, |whcnl W| , Mozart, visited Mui , with Ins ,ildren ... . • ,h '. tracted much atte. .. „,c ' "I ' " " " Europe, and ,. eleb. > i name is to b at. \i years omposed ... I of th lyropl ' s 6 mi e t* , •ndwh ,a> „,,„„,„
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