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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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instrument. One day Dr. Handel started to visit a son in the service of a German duke.George begged to go, as he wished to hear the organ in the dukes chapel. Butnot until he ran after the coach did the father consent. They arrived at the palace as a chapel service was going on. The boy stoleaway to the organdoft, and, after service, began playing. The duke, recognizingthat it was not his organists style, sent a servant to learn who was playing.The man returned with the trembling boy. Dr. Handel was both amazed and enraged. But the duke, patting the childon the head, drew out his story. You are stifling a genius, he said to theangry father ; this boy must not be snubbed. The doctor, more subservientto a prince than to nature, consented that his son should study music. During three years the boy studied with Zachau, the organist of the HalleCathedral. They were years of hard work. One day his teacher said to George,I can teach you no longer; you already know more than I do. You.must go
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HAMBURG. 215 and study in Berlin. Berlin was at once attracted to the youthful musician byhis playing on the harpsichord and the organ. But the death of his father com-pelled him to earn his daily bread. Willing to descend, that he might rise, hebecame a violin player of minor parts at the Hamburg Opera House. Thehomage he had received prompted his vanity to create a surprise. He playedbadly, and acted as a verdant youth. The members of the orchestra sneeringlyinformed him that he would never earn his salt. Handel, however, waited hisopportunity. One day the harpsichordist, the principal person in the orchestra,was absent. The band, thinking it would be a good joke, persuaded Handel totake his place. Laying aside his violin, he seated himself at the harpsichord,amid the smiles of the musicians. As he touched the keys the smiles gaveplace to looks of wonder. He played on, and the whole orchestra broke intoloud applause. From that day until he left Hamburg, the youth of nineteen ledthe

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