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Musical Courier 1901-12-11: Vol 43 Iss 1133, 1901
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1NORDICA IN ST. LOUIS.
2[By Wire.]
3St. Louis, Mo., December 9, 1901.
4"NORDICA'S recital at the Odeon here to-night an immense success. Many people turned away. Capacity of the hall 2,000."
5CHARLTON.
7La Sourdine Musicale.
8Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Breitner, piano and violin, and Leo Schulz, 'cello, played at the meeting of La Sourdine last Monday afternoon. One interesting number of the program was Otto Floersheim's "Gesang," for the G string of the violin. This was charmingly played by Mrs. Breitner, accompanied by Mr. Breitner. The Breitners, with Mr. Schulz, played the Schütt Trio; Mr. Breitner and Mr. Schulz the Brahms Sonata for piano and 'cello. Beethoven's Trio, op. 70, No. 1, was also played by the three artists of the afternoon. As piano solos, Mr. Breitner performed an Aria by Schumann, a Barcarolle by Rubinstein, and a study by Chopin. The afternoon's program was closed with César Franck's Sonata for piano and violin, played by Mr. and Mrs. Breitner.
10Le Grand Howland.—Le Grand Howland's opera class was heard at Carnegie Lyceum last Friday evening before a large audience.
12The "Garden Scene," from "Faust," and Mr. Howland's own opera "Sarrona," were given, the latter having its first production. Among his pupils who made their début were Harry Warren, Sybra Glykera, Edith Longford and Duryea Bensel; also two pupils of Miss Thursby, Josephine Aleene and Miss Summers. The works were sung in English. The performance was highly creditable, and showed careful training both in acting and singing. Notable was the excellent diction of all the débutants. "Nita," another opera by the same composer, will be repeated during Easter week. Mr. Howland ought to be encouraged.
14JOSEF RHEINBERGER.
15JOSEF RHEINBERGER died in Munich November 25 of lung and nerve troubles. He was born March 17, 1839. Rheinberger was well known in this country, principally because of his American pupils—Horatio Parker, Henry Holden Huss, Louis V. Saar and many other prominent composers and organists. The dead man was a fertile producer of choral, instrumental and organ works. At the age of seven he was playing the organ regularly in church, and after eight years' study at the Royal School of Music, Munich, he became teacher of theory there in 1859, Royal professor in 1865 and Hof-Capellmeister in 1877. As head of the Royal Chapel he made the choir celebrated for revivals of ancient church music, and he was forty years a busy teacher. His wife, the poetess Franziska von Hoffnas, a lady seventeen years his senior, died in 1892.
17Rheinberger's organ works figure frequently on the programs of recitals, and his Piano Quartet in E flat and Piano Concerto in A flat were at one time fairly popular. He has written operas, oratorios, masses and cantatas. His "Stabat Mater" and Requiem for the dead of the Franco-Prussian war are heard occasionally in Germany. He wrote scholarly, never great music, though his melody is agreeable. "The Chase" is the best known of his smaller piano pieces. After all, it is as a great pedagogue that Rheinberger will be remembered.
19MISS COTTE'S PROGRAM.—Miss P. Ethelwyne Cottle played the following program at the Conservatory of Music, 2105 Seventh avenue, on Tuesday evening:
20Faschingsschwank, op. 26………………………………………Schumann
21Sonata, for violin and piano, op. 18……………………………Niemann
22Mazurka, op. 68, No. 2, in D………………………………….Chopin
23Valse, in E minor…………………………………………………Chopin
24Revolutionary Etude, op. 19, No. 12……………………………Chopin
25At the Spring………………………………………………………Joseffy
26Nocturne in F, from op. 23……………………………………Schumann one of two readings
27Nocturne in F, from op. 23………………………………………Schumann one of two readings
28Valse de Concert, A flat………………………………………….Rubinstein one of two readings
29Valse de Concert, A flat………………………………………..Rubinstein one of two readings
31RIEGER SOUTH.—William H. Rieger, the tenor, is now on his way to the South. He will sing in Atlanta, Ga., on December 16, and he is booked for an extensive tour previous to his Northern appearances.
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39BEGINNING IN CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK FEBRUARY 4, 1902
40The Musical Event to Come
41Major J. B. Pond announces a Concert Tour by
42FLORIZEL
43The Nine-Year-Old Violinist
44The Marvel of the Age, whom European critics call "The New Paganini," and who not only plays all the twenty-four Paganini caprices by heart, but also plays the music of Vieuxtemps, Bach, Wieniawski, Mendelssohn, and Mozart, as easily as other children amuse themselves at tennis or marbles.
46Florizel's recent tour of fifteen concerts in Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden has created a furore the like of which has not been known in the memory of man or in the annals of music.
48Florizel will be assisted on his American tour by the charming young soprano, Miss Lucy Gates, of Utah, this being her first appearance on the American concert stage.
50Mr. Adolph Glose, the favorite American pianist and famous accompanist, has also been engaged for the tour.
52Major Pond is now booking Florizel's time. Applications should be made at once to
53J. B. POND, Everett House, New York
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