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Musical Courier 1896-12-23: Vol 33 Iss 877, 1896
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1Bayreuth Festival of 1897.
3MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER & CO. beg to inform their patrons that it has been decided to hold a festival at Bayreuth again in 1897. The season will consist of three complete cycles of Der Ring des Nibelungen, and eight performances of Parsifal, in the order specified. Tickets for the Nibelung's Ring will be issued for the complete cycles only, price $20 each, for the four days together, and an additional booking fee of one dollar for each complete ticket.
5Subscribers to these cycles will have the first right to purchase tickets for the Parsifal performances, immediately preceding or following each cycle, at the rate of not more than one ticket for each of the two Parsifal performances, against every ticket taken for the cycle. The price of tickets for Parsifal is $5 for each performance, and an additional booking fee of 25 cents for each ticket. Applications for Parsifal alone can at present only be entertained for the separate performances on July 28 and August 9. The allotment of seats will take place in March next, according to priority of application, and payment need not be made until then.
7Applications to be addressed to Novello, Ewer & Co., American agents for the Bayreuth Festivals, 21 East Seventeenth street, New York, N. Y.
9LIST OF DATES.
11Monday, July 19………………………..Parsifal
12Cycle 1:
13 Wednesday, July 21……………………..Rheingold.
14 Thursday, July 22………………………Walküre.
15 Friday, July 23…………………………Siegfried.
16 Saturday, July 24………………………Götterdämmerung.
17 Tuesday, July 27……………………….Parsifal.
18 Wednesday, July 28……………………..Parsifal.
19 Friday, July 30…………………………Parsifal.
20Cycle 2:
21 Monday, August 2……………………….Rheingold.
22 Tuesday, August 3……………………….Walküre.
23 Wednesday, August 4……………………Siegfried.
24 Thursday, August 5……………………..Götterdämmerung.
25 Sunday, August 8………………………..Parsifal.
26 Monday, August 9……………………….Parsifal.
27 Wednesday, August 11…………………..Parsifal.
28Cycle 3:
29 Saturday, August 14……………………Rheingold.
30 Sunday, August 15………………………Walküre.
31 Monday, August 16………………………Siegfried.
32 Tuesday, August 17……………………..Götterdämmerung.
33 Thursday, August 19…………………….Parsifal.
35The performances commence at 4 p. m., and terminate about 10 p. m., there being intervals of about an hour between each act. The theatre is situated within fifteen minutes' easy walk from the railway station, and there are two restaurants in its immediate neighborhood where dinners, suppers and light refreshments can be had at fixed prices. After the performances, at 11 p. m., trains will run in every direction.
37A special committee will assist visitors in finding suitable lodgings at moderate charges. There being no lack of good accommodation in Bayreuth, applications for rooms need not be made until May or June, and a proper form of application will accompany the tickets.
39In the Bayreuth Theatre all seats are almost equally good for seeing and hearing; the seats rise as they go back, and the gallery, which is reserved for royalty or other distinguished visitors, is situate at the back behind the last row of stalls.
41Tickets once booked cannot be returned.
43A Maine Festival.
45THE State of Maine is to have a great music jubilee in October, 1897. Lewiston has been selected as the focus, and a chorus of 1,000 Maine voices is to be heard in important musical works, under the leadership of Wm. R. Chapman, who is from Maine. Nordica, who is a Maine girl, is to be the leading soloist. The mass chorus is to be made up of choruses from Auburn, South Paris, Bethel, Norway, Farmington, Gardiner, Waterville, Rockland, Brunswick, and a half dozen other towns.
47Mr. Chapman will arrange most elaborate programs, and one day of the festival will be devoted entirely to popular works and national hymns.
49The chief aim of the enterprise is the permanent establishment of an annual festival association, which is to pro-
51vide for the people of Maine a great musical treat, they in return to provide the chorus and the financial support. This would be of vast benefit for the future culture of the State and would exert a tremendous influence on all those who aspire to a higher moral and mental elevation.
53Mr. Homer N. Chase, of Auburn, Me., is the general manager of the Maine State Festival, and his ability and energy have made possible this great enterprise, which now bids fair to eclipse previous State festivals. Mr. Chase is giving his entire time at present to this work, and he richly merits the praise he has always received and the thanks of all the music lovers of Maine for his untiring efforts for the good of this festival. Mr. Chase has charge of the united choruses of Lewiston and Auburn, and has an able assistant in Mr. O. D. Stinchfield, who conducts the weekly rehearsals.
55Special mention should also be made of Mr. Parke G. Dingley, Mr. Staples, of Lewiston; Mr. Herman L. Horne and Mr. Marcus H. Carroll, of Norway, and Mrs. J. G. Gehrting, of Bethel, for their efficient aid in organizing choruses through the State. The names of all these people should become known, for it is due to them that this festival will become a fact. Mr. Chapman will become responsible for the musical success which through his efforts is already assured. one of two readings
56Special mention should also be made of Mr. Parke G. Dingley, Mr. Staples, of Lewiston; Mr. Herman L. Horne and Mr. Marcus H. Carroll, of Norway, and Mrs. J. G. Gehrings, of Bethel, for their efficient aid in organizing choruses through the State. The names of all these people should become known, for it is due to them that this festival will become a fact. Mr. Chapman will become responsible for the musical success which through his efforts is already assured. one of two readings
58Richard Pohl Dead.
60RICHARD POHL, the musical writer and composer, died December 17 at Baden-Baden. Born at Leipsic, September 12, 1826, he studied at Karlsruhe, Göttingen and Leipsic, and after a brief period of teaching at Graz and Dresden went to Weimar in 1854, where he formed an intimate friendship with Liszt.
62From 1856 to 1860 he, with F. Brendel, published Anregungen für Kunst, and was joint editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. After Liszt's departure from Weimar Pohl in 1864 went to Baden-Baden, and edited the Badenblatt. He was an ardent champion of the new German school of music, and wrote many articles in various journals, under the pen name of Hoplit. Among his works the most important are Akustische Briefe für Musiker, 1853; Bayreuther Erinnerungen, 1877; Autobiographisches, 1881; Richard Wagner (1883, in Waldersee's Essays); Richard Wagner, Studien und Kritiken, 1883; Franz Liszt, 1883; Hektor Berlioz, 1884; Die Hohenzage der Musikalischen Entwicklung, 1888, and his translation of Berlioz's collected writings into German.
64Pohl was also a poet, and published a comedy, Musikalische Leiden, in 1856, and Gedichte, 1859, and wrote the text for Schumann's Manfred and Liszt's Prometheus. His compositions consist of pretty ballads, op. 1 and 2; Minnolied, op. 4, 5, 6, 10, 12; a musical drama, Die Wallfahrt nach Keviaar; Abendlied, reverie for string orchestra; Wiegenlied, nocturne for piano and violin; In der Nacht, for four male voices, with piano, and two chamber pieces for 'cello and piano. He married a celebrated harpist, Johanna Eyth, who died in 1870.
66Stockhausen.—Professor Stockhausen, of Frankfort, has undergone an operation for cataract, and will return to his labors as teacher. He writes that his singing school will be continued under his own personal direction, and that he will resume his instructions, both in private and in classes, as teacher and accompanist.
68Beethoven Manuscripts.—The reported discovery of three marches by Beethoven in the archives of the Teutonic Order seems, like the reported discovery of Wagner manuscripts at Zurich, to be no discovery at all. Of the three marches supposed to be discovered several autograph copies exist. Beethoven used them on several occasions and wrote new instrumentation to suit the conditions under which they were performed. The first was composed for the Bohemian Landwehr in 1809, as is known from the autograph in the Astaria collection at Vienna. There are two autographs of it in this collection, one with the trio. The collection possesses also an autograph of a trio for the second march. The three marches were worked over by Beethoven for the carrousel which took place at Laxenburg to celebrate the natal day of the Empress Marie Ludovica, August 25, 1810. The marches thus revised were published in the supplemental volume of Beethoven's works issued by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1888. The first had already been published in Beethoven's lifetime by Schlesinger in Berlin in his collection of quick marches for the Prussian army, under the title of York's Corps. 1813, arranged for a military band.
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