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1 5. — 7. traduits en coups d'archet color/s, rendered by fancifui strokes of bis bow.

II. Mozart (Wolfgang), aGerman composer, bom at Salzburg in 1756, died in 1791. The son of Leopold Mozart, a skillful violinist, he became famous at an early âge, not being quite eight years old when he played the organ at Versailles. A bronze statue, by Schwanthaler, was erected to bis memory in

Beethoven (Ludwig van), a celebrated composer, was bom at Bonn in 1770 and died in 1827. His father was a ténor of the chapel of the Elector of Cologne. He was a pupil of Mozart and Haydn, and became the equal of his masters, and now in the eyes of the musical world stands as the Shakespeare of music.

Weber (Karl Maria von), a famous composer, was born at Eutin (Holstein) in 1786 and died in London in 1826. He was the son of a skillful musician, and had for his masters Michael Haydn, Valesi, and Kalcher. He wrote an opéra ("Sylvana" or ** La Fille des Bois'*) at the âge of fourteen. While he was devoting himself to composition, Weber at the same time Cultivàted with some success the art of drawing. It is supposée that he, and not Senefelder, was the real inventor of lithography.