SARASATE'S WILL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 444, 1 March 1909, Page 8

SARASATE'S WILL.

■ : / BEQUESTS TO PROMOTE STUDY OF 1 'MUSIC. Probate has now been granted j" L° nd .? n of the will, dated September 28, 1893, with four codicils, the latest dated May 3 last, of Senor Pablo Martin Meliton Sarasato, of 5 Place Malesherbes, Paris, who died at lJiarritz on September 20 last, aged sixty-four years, a native of Pamplona, Spam. Tho will contains tho following bequests:— One hundred thousand francs to the Conservatoire of Music of Madrid, to apply in awarding a silver prize annually to tho pupil having terminated bis violin classes, and giving testimony of very exceptional merit, or in default of one such pupil, to several according to their artistic merits and their means of existence. _ , For the School of Music at Spain, his musical library, and a sum oi 25,000 francs—as to the latter, upon trust to apply tho income iu rewarding the most interesting pupil from an artistic point of view" in each year. Twenty-five thousand francs to the House of Mercy, at Pamplona (Casa do Misericorde). Twenty thousand francs to the Conservatoire of Music of Paris, to apply the income in awarding annually a pnzo bearing his name "to the first-named man or woman of the first prizes in the violin classes.^ To tho Museum of the' Conservatoire ot Music of Paris, his Stradivanus violin, bearing date of the year 1(24. Bv his will he had left Ins Stradivanus violin, dated 1713, to tho Trustees of the South Kensington Museum, London, witn tho mention "that this gift is made by'me as a remembrance of the welcome and the successes which I obtained m England, but by the codicil, dated Juno 12, 1b94, he revoked this bequest, and left his violm to the Conservatoire of Music at Madrid. To the Town Council of Pamplona, his piano from Biarritz; his violin by Guillaume and his Gand violin (which was given to him as a first prize at the Conservatoire oi Paris); all his watches, pins, rings,;jewels, decorations (he was a knight- of numerous foreign Orders), wreaths, palms, diplomas, letters patent, bronzes, pictures, busts, and souvenirs; his effects at his Pans house, except his musical library; his violm bows, one having the button set with diamonds and rubies —all of which are to be exhibited in glass cases in which the}* shall bo carefully preserved from dust and damp, grouped in a special room bearing his name, and easy of access to the public. Fifteen thousand francs to tho Town Council of Pamplona for the poor, one-fourth being distributed on the day of his obsequies in Pamplona, and the balance during the ensuing year. . Ton thousand francs to tho Society of Musical Artists at Paris (Societe Taylor), of which he had been a member since 1862, and as a souvenir of good brothorhood. Thoro are also family bequests, and servants aro benefited.