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Musical Courier 1901-12-11: Vol 43 Iss 1133, 1901
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1of music here, under Hubert Ries and Ferdinand Laub (violin). From 1881 to 1890 Urban was an instructor at Kullak's Academy of Music. Later he became critic of the Vossische Zeitung, and formed a large class of pupils in theory, counterpoint and composition. Of his own works, a symphony, "Spring"; a concert overture for orchestra, "Fiesco and Scheherazade," and a concerto for violin, were the most important. None of his compositions attained to popularity. As a critic he was mild, discerning and didactic.
3Last week's musical bill of fare at our Royal Opera contained these courses: "Tristan and Isolde," "Hansel and Gretel," "Die Puppenfee" (ballet), "Fra Diavolo," "Walküre," "Cavalleria Rusticana," Pagliacci" and "Lohengrin." At the Theater des Westens these works were performed: "Waffenschmied" (Lortzing), "Marriage of Figaro," "Gypsy Baron," "Don Juan" and "Freischütz."
5Otto Hegner, the erstwhile piano prodigy, is to be the soloist of the next Wüllner Symphony Concert in Cologne. Hegner will play Brahms' B flat Concerto.
7Recent additions to Berlin's large colony of American music students are: Miss Lake (vocal), Washington, D. C.; J. H. Logan (piano), Halifax, N. S.; Miss Haskell (vocal), St. Louis, Mo.; Miss Powers (piano), Chicago, Ill.; Miss Adler (vocal), San Francisco, Cal.; Miss Listemann (vocal), Chicago, Ill.; Misses Holinger (vocal), Chicago, Ill.; Louis Hirsch (piano), New York city; Miss Newkirk (vocal), Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Edwards (vocal), Helena, Mont.; Geo. Reed (vocal), Chicago, Ill.; Kelley Cole (vocal), New York city; Miss Sylvana (vocal), New York city; Miss Sada Wertheim (violin), San Francisco, Cal.; Mr. Lowne (vocal), New York city; Mr. Blackmore (piano), Tacoma, Wash.; Miss Mame Coton (violin), Danville, Ill.; Miss Ollie Siner (piano), Denver, Col., and Miss Winifred Preston (violin), Brooklyn, N. Y.
9Reports continue to pour in of Moriz Rosenthal's extraordinary successes in Russia. The dailies devote columns to his playing and to his personality. They call him the most interesting figure, as pianist and man, in the modern artist world. The leading Moscow paper refers to him as "the Liszt of our generation in mind and music." Rosenthal's latest triumph was in Warsaw, where he gave a sensational performance of the Schumann Concerto.
11Adele Aus der Ohe, the pianist, played two recitals at her home for an invited audience. She will spend the winter in Italy. Her brother, the well-known painter, Gustav Aus der Ohe, has just completed a large canvas for the New Church, in Magdeburg.
13Teresita Carreño, the gifted daughter of a famous mother, has just been engaged for a winter tour through Russia.
15Prominent artists who have recently achieved success at orchestral concerts in various parts of Germany are: Raoul Pugno, in Barmen; Jacques Thibaud, at a Zumpf concert in Munich, and Ysaye, at a Kaim concert in Munich.
17Leopold Auer has written a new and interesting cadenza for the first movement of the Beethoven Violin Concerto. Holy horror on the part of the Joachim clique is now in order.
19Hans Sitt resigned from the leadership of the Leipsic Singakademie. His successor will be Gustave Borchers.
21At four concerts to take place in Saal Bechstein, Waldemar Meyer has set himself the herculean task of playing twelve concertos for the violin. The works to be presented are by J. S. Bach (E major), Mozart (D major), Beethoven, Paganini (D major), Ernst (F sharp minor), Vieuxtemps (D moll), Spohr ("Gesangsscene"), Mendelssohn, Brahms, Joachim (Hungarian Concerto), Bruch (No. 3) and Sinding (No. 1).
23Ottilie Metzger, first contralto in Cologne, has just been engaged for three years at the Hamburg Opera. This young woman, with her volcanic temperament and her enormous voice, will soon have a world wide reputation.
25There have been two recent operatic productions of note. Hans Pfitzner's new opera, "The Rose of Love," achieved a triumph in Elberfeld. The composer conducted. Richard Strauss' "Feuersnot" was given in Dresden, with every outward sign of immense success. Strauss led, and appeared repeatedly before the curtain. Our Dresden correspondent will dissect for you the plot and music of "Feuersnot." I will whisper now that the book is based on a salacious tale from the "Decameron."
27Wilhelm Mauke, the critic of the Munich Post, is in a pretty pickle. He has long been known as a bitter antagonist of Felix Weingartner, and when that gentleman recently conducted a Kaim subscription concert in Munich, Mr. Mauke let loose the following diatribe: "He failed to jump into the breach with 'Till Eulenspiegel.' Without temperament, without a left arm, almost automatically, he beat to death the droll, whimsical composition of his colleague. (Richard Strauss). Why did he do this? Do Strauss' laurels embarrass Weingartner, or did he wish to show us that even a prosaic interpretation cannot rob this poetical piece of its overwhelming effect?" So far Mr. Mauke. But now comes Weingartner, with
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