Daniel Gregory Mason
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Excerpt from Masters in Music, 1904, Vol. 3: A Monthly Magazine Favorable as were the effects of work upon him in these posts, however, he had fallen
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under an influence in Prague that still longer delayed his reaching any thorough emotional tranquillity. The story of his infatua tion with Therese Brunetti is a most distressing one. She was a dancer, and the wife of a dancer, at the opera; a common, scheming, mercenary, and thoroughly unprincipled woman who did not hesitate to take advan tage of Weber's susceptibility for her own ends. For a long while she kept him in a fever of passion; now smiling upon him, now treating him with utter indifference; accepting his gifts, listening to his avowals of love, and boasti of her conquest of the maestro to her com anions of the chorus. But t 's was the last of Weber's follies. Fortunate y for him, he fell in love with Caroline Brandt, a singer at the Prague opera, a modest and intelligent girl. After several years of waiting, they were married in 1817 and the match proved a most happy one. The composer gained from it that sheltered atmosphere, that sense of quiet and stability, which seem to have been essential to his doing satisfactory work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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