1,250,000 Notes Without music.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 30 October 1914, Page 2

1,250,000 Notes Without music.

It has been said of Dr. Tlans vim Bulow an'j Rubinstein thai, if every note of music worth |.rcsei-\ injj; lml been destroyed, they c:oul(i bci >\ i-i-.-i them have reproduced every liiu.- of it. Yon Jiulow once u;.i\o as < it-.s of twenty piano rcciials, without a line of music, ami sinking" approximately a million and a <;ii;i ri< ••■ notes, each of which had to ie retained in its exact position in his memory ; and Verdi once. for a wager, played faultlessly an on; ire opera, drawn by loi, which lie had composed fonriee'i years earlier, and of which he was not allowed to see a note.