AUBER, THE COMPOSER.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 850, 15 August 1871, Page 3

AUBER, THE COMPOSER.

The coffin containing the remains of Auber, the great composer, which lay in the vaults of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Paris, awaiting the rite of burial, was among the number broken open, and flung into the street by the Communists. The remains of the composer were lost, the coffin being broken, and its contents merged with the debris,in'an undistinguishable mass. The post mortem fate of Auber, to be tumbled into a common ditch along with the horrible contents of a charnel house, by a savage mob, is strangely in contrast with the deceased's experience in life. A correspondent of a London paper furnishes the following details of the habits of Auber A man of the most luxurious tastgs, he allowed nothing to interfere with the complete sensuous enjoyment which his income of 30,000 dollars a year enabled hici to secure in Paris. Like Rossini, when his position and fortune were assured, he used both to make his path one of roses. He sedulously shut out every sight and sound likely to prove disagreeable, surrounded himself with all that is beautiful in art, lived delicately and fared sumptuously. His stables had the finest horses and his table the choicest wines; his amours were innumerable ; and a strong constitution carefully preserved, with wonderful good health even to the last of his advanced years, enabled him to live the life of a voluptuary without the physical retribution which attends less selfish and less poised individuals. He was thoroughly philosophical in the pursuit of pleasure, and no resident of the French capital realised more from its unlimited sensual resources than the great composer.