Vie 6pettator
APRIL 9, 1831
PAOANINI'S PAY.-It is said that one of , the concerts given at the Opera in Paris, by Signor Paganini, produced him I6,500f. An amateur has made the following calculation upon this amount. The performer played during the' evening three pieces, each covering about five pages of music, of six rows, giving about ninety-one measures to the page. The fifteen pages thus contained 1,365 measures, by which the 16,500f. are to be divided. The quotient will be 12f, for each measure, or the propor- tions will be as follow. For a round, 12f.; a minim, or white note, 6f.; a black note, 3f.; a crotchet, lf. 50c.: a double crotchet, 15 sous; a triple crotchet, 7-1- sous; and, on the other hand, for a pause, 15f.; a demi-pause, 6f.; a minim rest, 3f.; a demi-rest, If. 50c.; a quarter of a rest, 75c. There would still, out of the 16,500f., remain 421A., which is exactly the price of such a violin as the Conservatory awards as a prize to its most distinguished pupils.
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