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Musical Courier 1900-10-31: Vol 41 Iss 1075, 1900
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1person in the house and only aroused the laughter of the gallery and of the anti-Semitic element among the audience.
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5Next summer's "Parsifal" performances at Bayreuth will be conducted by Dr. Muck, of the Berlin Royal Opera, negotiation to that effect having just been concluded between him and Cosima-Wagner.
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9Marcella Sembrich's stagione of Italian opera at Kroll's will open on the 20th inst., with a performance of Bellini's almost forgotten work, "I Puritani." The principals in the cast will be, besides Madame Sembrich, the tenor Bonci, the baritone Bensaudi and the basso Arimondi.
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13Heinrich von Herzogenberg died at Wiesbaden, after prolonged and painful illness, on Tuesday last. He was born at Graz on June 10, 1843, and a graduate of the Vienna Conservatory. In 1872 he took up his residence at Leipsic, and in 1885 he was called to Berlin as successor of Friedrich Kiel, for the post of principal teacher of composition and director of the academic master school of composition at the Royal High School of Music. Like all other teachers of the most important branch of the art, the creative one, connected with the Royal Institute, Herr Von Herzogenberg was a conservative musician. His own works, consisting of chamber music and a couple of symphonies, are strict in form and meagre in contents.
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17Chamber Singer Bulsz, of the Royal Opera, will next week begin a tournée through the principal cities of Hungary, and his artistic trip will wind up at Bucharest. Prof. Carl Halir, concertmaster of the Royal Opera Orchestra, after fulfilling an engagement as soloist of the next Brussels Concert Populaire, will in November undertake a tournée through England and Scotland. Willy Burmester, on the other hand, has just returned from a tournée through Norway, which he counts as the most successful one of his entire career so far. At Christiania and Bergen the public, to judge from the scenes described to me, must have been wild over the great violinist. At the latter place Grieg attended the first concert from beginning to the end, and then went into the artist room to compliment Burmester and thank him for the artistic enjoyment he had given him. At Bergen Burmester paid a tribute of admiration to the memory of Ole Bull by placing a laurel wreath with dedication upon the great Norwegian violinist's grave.
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21Death removed at Bleiberg, in Carinthia, last Tuesday, the well-known baritone Carl Marcel Somer, who was born at Klagenfurt in 1855. His first operatic début occurred at Sondershausen, and thence he went to Dresden. From 1880 to 1882 he was a member of the Vienna Court Opera personnel, but on account of his violent temperament he could not get along with Director Wlasak. He left for Breslau, where in 1883 Director Dr. Loewe had much trouble with him, for he showed then symptoms of the brain disease of which death relieved him last Tuesday. He suffered from mania of persecution. Somer was in New York, at the Metropolitan, in the early nineties, and thence returned to Breslau, but not for a long time, for his brain trouble forced him to abdicate his career. At the time of his palmiest days he was a truly great artist in lyric as well as in heroic parts, and especially famous were his impersonations of Hans Sachs, Flying Dutchman, Telramund, Iago, Hans Heiling, Vampyre and many others.
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25A new building has been erected at the corner of Franzoesische and Kanonier streets, upon the ground on which stood the house in which Michael Iwanowitsch von Glinka, the favorite composer of the Russians, lived in Berlin in 1856 and up to February 15, 1857, when he died there. In honor of his memory the new building bears in large golden letters the name of Glinka House, and its corner façade has been decorated with a bust of the composer, which the Czar has sent for that purpose from St. Petersburg. The bust is surmounted by the Russian Eagle and is flanked on both sides by two figures representing Russlan and Ludmilla, the two principal personages from Glinka's best opera.
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29The City Council of Leipsic has under consideration a petition, signed by hundreds of citizens, to name one of the public squares or streets after Richard Wagner. There is also a question again of erecting a monument at last to Leipsic's great son in his native city.
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33Weingartner will take his revenge upon the good citizens of Mayence for having made fun of him last carnival. He proposes to perform all the nine symphonies of Beethoven at one session, as it were, viz., during the days from April 24 to 27, at Mayence, with the Kaim Orchestra of Munich.
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37Umberto Giordano's opera "Fedora" met with great success at its first production at Cologne under Professor Kleffel's direction last Wednesday night.
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41You will all be interested to hear through a letter to me that Albert Steinberg, the versatile and able music critic of the New York Herald, is in good health again. He writes to me from Carlsbad: "About five weeks ago I left New York a wreck. The splendid trip over (on the Deutschland), the waters, the air and the diet here have made a new man of me, and I now feel as fit as ever I did in my life. In a week or two I hope to be in Berlin."
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45Otto Hegner told me that he will settle here, and, as Professor Hollaender confirmed, had been engaged as one of the piano teachers of the Stern Conservatory. Perron, the Dresden baritone, was in good spirits, and may be heard in Berlin in the near future. Among the number of callers at THE MUSICAL COURIER office were I. W. Otto Voss, pianist from New York, who has likewise settled in Berlin; William B. Mount, of Philadelphia; Miss Bertha Visanska, who is about to go to Leschetizky for finishing lessons; Mrs. Hugo Mansfeldt, from San Francisco, who is likewise bound for Vienna in order to take the young pianist Alma Stencel, a pupil of her husband's, to Leschetizky; Miss Florence Genevieve Hassel and Irvin Evelth Hassel, also from San Francisco, were in their company. Miss Sophie Heymann, coloratura singer, who will be heard at the Theater des Westens in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann," and who is a sister of the insane great pianist Carl Heymann; Miss Vierheller, from Pittsburg, who sang the part of Agathe in the "Freischutz" performance of the Stern Conservatory so beautifully, and Miss Paula Schoenfeld, who was so comely and pert an Aennechen in the same pupils' performance, were likewise among the callers, while Godowsky only looked in to say that he was again forced to change pension, and is now living at 33 Ranke strasse.
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49Mascagni.
51Five, if not six, premières of Mascagni's new opera, "The Masques," will be given on the same evening in Italy, the definite ones being Turin, Milan, Rome, Bologna and Naples.
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