POPULAR COINPOSERS. 83

WALTER SLAUGHTER. Mr. Walter

Slaughter was born in the

year 1860, in the nunhbomlmnd ot Idtz- roy-square. [lis carcer began asa cho- rister in St. Andrew's, Wells-strect, at the

erc he sang for two vears.

age of cleven, wh since

One or two other people who have

become famous were there, amongst them dward

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Thurley Beale, Oliver o, and

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WALTER SLAUGHTER. UL Soper, Deatlersea.

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Llovd, the cclebrated tenor. THis tather was far from musical ; as Mr. Slaughter quaintly puts 1t, *he knew when *(God Save the Queen ” was played Dbecause people stood up, and that helped him to recognise it, but that was his full musical knowledee.” At the age of thirteen he left the choir, and finished his education at the City of [London School, atter which he spent a little time in a wine-merchant's ofhice, and then was

employed in the music-publishing firm of

Metzler. While there, he studied under Cellier and Mr. Jacobi, working hard at or- chestration, and soon making a reputation as a writer of dramatic music, which continued to increase until the very successful opera of “Marjorie” put the climax to his fame. As a song writer, he has scored a decided success with * Dear Homcland V' and “ Gondola Dreams.” His latest song 15 “ I Surrender,” published at Cramer & Co.'s, Regent-street,

Siayor Trro MATTEL

This celebrated pianist and composer was born on May 24, 1841, in Campobasso, near Naples. He commenced to study at the carly age of four, under his father, whose musical instrument was the flute, and pro- fession that of a solicitor. After his father, his master was the great teacher Thalberg. All his studies were conducted at home, his teachers in harmony being Signors Pallbl, Ruta, Conti, and Raimondi. Amidst great success, he gave his first large public con- cert at Naples on September 28, 1846 ; he was then only five years old. \call) all the notable musicians were present, amongst them such people as Mercadante, (he director of the Naples Conservatoire, and the famous l.ablache, who, being very stout, bought two seats to accommodatu himsclf. From then up to the year 1831 he studied, and gave concerts ncar Naples and in Palermo and Messina. In 18z2 he made his ébut in Rome, with so much success that he was pr esented with a special diploma, and had the honour of a professor- ship conferred on him by the Accademia i Santa Ccecilia at IFlorence. He was admitted to the Sociceta Ifilarmonica. In the same year

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SIGNOR TITO MATTEL LW alery. he went to Florence, where he met Rossini, who called him his collcacrue and gave hlm eventually a host of letters with special recommendation to the leading musicians and patrons of music in Paris and London.