The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1900, Page 1

» ~INTHE SAN FRANCISCS - to the present ng forgotten hi c on the stage He was born in social life. I ad the charming ed that Lord Moosbrugger erman and the France after his Lo malned until it became unsafe for him to live in Paris because of the trouble wag- ing between their two countries, Mooshrugeer ther. retur: tour and re- but the tres is ned to German: th had failel n the moun- He lived happily wife and two children, fre- he sought to regain it T m in a manner that ndicated that from dissipation prompted by the fire of royal dunors; old shoes that hed been worn and. worn, then put away to mold heim), pronouncing him the flnest singer of classical music, his repertoire embrac- and saddest of all are the ing Handel, Haydn, Gluck, Mendelssohn, 08, some elegantly bound erved, but-now musty ank space in the books with clippings from BEuro- his :\rilllant suc- trivmph at the Madrid, where he. sang 1. “Another men- the Czar Nicholas and zarina with his songs. jerr Moosbrugger seemed to enjoy this recollection. “Oh, the Empres: ed an honor to his g line of artists a Kaufmann, who to become famous or. It was Moosbrug- the initial production of out the librettos that he had mastered books I had dared to wonder why Herr Moosbrugger had not sold them to kee; \ ol hunger away, but Escurial Pal before Queen Isabella II. tioned his pleasin, articularly the overtaken him and the great operatic 10 SRd Sen Salseccin. world heedlessly. continues in its course. to Btuttgart to sing at the en by the King of Wurt- r a successful concert tour Herr Moosbrugger g introductions from e was beautiful— comfort with his trunk of treasures and silence for 8 moment as he his reaiization that dreamed over again a scene One of the librettos conta 11 known com e musical 80 ety of Mann- ¢ s’lwl’ehe!m, Prince Welmar and n from | ro st to be take the Library- “BRUCCL, HERR FRIEDRICH MOSSBRUGGER ‘Bruccs IN THE OPERA Omique AMILIE” e Mozart and Bach. [ It was evident from the notes through- BRU(CI»‘ them all. When I first glanced at these e%“E in a moment more understood why he had held them dear. HIS He is out‘of the race now, for age has ‘FAVORITE ROLES. o the far-famed Brucci lives in the past with its memories, but he seems to e The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. GRACE FERN. . »