MUSICIANS WHO HAVE DIED AWAY

What! is he, too, one of those who have died away? Yes, that he is! His Dorfbarbier, which even Gathy called a model of popular comic composition, now merely vegetates miserably with little operatic companies, in summer theatres, and suchlike Thespian carts. I myself attended, some thirty years ago, a performance of the admirable piece, and the inimitable "Dr Luxius" did not sing, but-from want of voice-spoke his part. So low had the once celebrated "Village Bar er" fallen even then!