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Musical Courier 1901-12-25: Vol 43 Iss 1135, 1901
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1ists were Mrs. Mark Woods, soprano; Miss Ina Ensign, many and varied criticisms. One of the distinguished violinist, and Mrs. P. V. M. Raymond, pianist.
3Josef Hofmann is to come in January, the Matinee of Chopin, declared Zeldenrust to be the best interpreter of Chopin who has been heard here. Indeed, he considered him the finest pianist who has visited our city. Others thought there was too much pounding.
5His own dainty little composition proved Zeldenrust to have beautiful ideas of his own.
7The interpretation of Weber's "Polacca Brillante" was unique. In playing this composition, the Wagner selections and the Hungarian Rhapsodie, he showed great technical power and brilliancy.
9At the conclusion the audience had become most enthusiastic, and after the Rhapsodie he returned to the stage, giving a Chopin waltz.
11The absence of a Beethoven Sonata was regretted. It was believed that the artist would probably have revealed new beauties of interpretation.
13Zeldenrust appeared here as the third attraction of the MacLachlan series.
15December 13, 1901.
17The musical event of the week has been the recital by Josef Hofmann at the Academy on Thursday. Mr. Hofmann presented the following program:
19Schubert's "Theme and Variations," op. 142, No. 3. This he played with exquisite skill and rare thematic treatment. His use of the pedals, too, was most effective. Schumann's "Papillons" followed, and called forth interpretation of a different type.
21The reading of the group of Chopin numbers evoked Ballade, A flat major.
23Prelude, No. 25 ……………………………………………..Chopin
24Valse, A flat …………………………………………………….Chopin
25Gnomereigen …………………………………………………Liszt
26Anglaise ………………………………………………………..Moszkowski
27Rhapsodie, No. 2 …………………………………………….Liszt
29Mr. Hofmann is entirely without mannerisms, and impresses the audience by his charming modesty, for he is a genuine artist and possesses remarkable technic.
31His broad interpretation of Beethoven was most interesting, and the rendition of the scherzo in the op. 31 was exquisitely beautiful.
33During the past eight years he has grown and developed wonderfully in technical proficiency, bravura playing, elegance and the singing tone. It is delightful to remember the exquisite clearness and delicacy of this singing tone.
35MARY HOWARD BRUCE.
37A retired vocalist, soprano, wishes to dispose of her library, consisting of fifty piano scores of the best known operas, operettas, oratorios and song books; the whole will be sold at a very reasonable price. Address "L," care of THE MUSICAL COURIER.
39WANTED—Church organist in an attractive Southern city; excellent opportunity also exists for instrumental and vocal tuition. Address Session, First Presbyterian Church, Box 187, Columbus, Ga.
41MISS ADELE MARGULIES,
42PIANO INSTRUCTION.
43Studios: Nos. 705-6 Carnegie Hall, New York.
45JULIA C. ALLEN,
46VIOLINIST.
47INSTRUCTION.
48Carnegie Hall, New York.
50CARL G. SCHMIDT,
51PIANIST—ORGANIST.
52Illustrated piano lectures. Organ recitals.
53Organist and Choirmaster.
54St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.
55276 West 94th Street, or Steinway Hall.
57W. A. HOWLAND,
58BARITONE.
59Address: University School of Music,
60Ann Arbor, Mich.
62J. LEWIS BROWNE,
63Concert Organist—Pianist,
64Atlanta, Ga.
66DELMA-HEIDE,
67Tenor Singer and Teacher,
68WILL REMAIN IN ITALY ANOTHER YEAR.
69Address care THE MUSICAL COURIER; or, Corso Venezia 65, Milan, Italy.
71CLIFFORD ALEXANDER WILEY,
72BARITONE.
73ORATORIO, SONG RECITALS, CONCERTS.
7464 West 98th Street, New York.
75Also Wolfsohn Bureau. Telephone, 1658 Riverside.
77EDWARD BROMBERG,
78BASSO-CANTANTE.
79SOLOIST OF THE BRICK CHURCH,
80(37th St. and Fifth Ave.)
81ORATORIO, CONCERTS, SONG RECITALS,
82VOCAL INSTRUCTION.
83Residence—138 West 91st St., Studio—9 East 17 h St.
85Mesdemoiselles YERGIN,
86Authors of the
87PHONO RHYTHMIC FRENCH METHOD.
88Winter address:
89465 Lexington Avenue, NEW YORK.
90Summer address:
91Newport House, BAR HARBOR, ME.
93SARAH KING PECK,
94SOPRANO,
95CONCERTS AND ORATORIO.
9655 West 85th Street, New York.
98A $68 Library of Musical Knowledge and Sheet Music—16 Volumes—sent complete on receipt of $1 and your acceptance as a Club Member
100This one Edition only at HALF PRICE
102This Musical Library is the 1901 edition of Famous Composers and Their Music, edited by Theodore Thomas, John Knowles Paine and Karl Klauser. Musical instructors and the foremost musicians universally recognize it as the best of all musical libraries. It is the standard of the world and over 50,000 sets of the earlier (six volume) edition have been sold at more than double our price per volume. There are sixteen Imperial Octavo volumes measuring about 9 x 12 inches—six of reading matter and illustration, and ten of music. The text volumes contain all you want to know about the history of music itself—the different schools of music, Italian, French, German, and so forth; the complete stories of all the great composers, their private lives and their public careers; clear and full accounts of the special peculiarities of every composer's work, and how each of them differed in essential points from all his fellow-craftsmen, yet made important contributions to the total. In short, they really form a complete encyclopedia of all musical knowledge, not written like an encyclopedia but like simple history or biography.
104FAMOUS COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC
1056 Encyclopedias. Volumes—10 Music Volumes
107The entire content of these text volumes consists of articles specially written for this work by such men as Oscar Comettant, Director of the Paris Conservatoire; Edward Dannreuther, the distinguished musical critic of London; the late John Fiske, Philip Hale, Adolphe Jullien, who stands at the very head of the Parisian critics; Dr. Louis Kelterborn, Dr. Phillip Spitta, of Berlin; Henry E. Krehbiel, of New York, and many others equally famous. Each subject has been written about by the one particular person in the whole musical world who is best qualified to deal with it, and the cost to the publisher of all these special articles was enormous.
109The 10 Music Volumes contain nearly 1700 pages of sheet music chosen by Theodore Thomas and Karl Klauser. The pieces are neither too easy nor too difficult. Plenty of them can easily be mastered by pupils of a year or two's experience. Yet Paderewski bought five sets of the first edition—one for his own use and four for gifts to his friends.
111For Young Musicians this work is invaluable. It does not preach; it is not full of "Don't's"; it does not attempt to teach how to play or sing; it does not try to take the place of a musical instructor. But after one has owned the Library a while, dipped into its reading volumes and wandered through its hundreds of music pages, there grows up insensibly a love for what is really good and an aversion to what is bad in the great world of melody and harmony.
113Beautiful Illustrations to the number of over 500 are scattered through the volumes. Many are magnificent color plates of rare and interesting musical instruments, 234 of them are portraits of the great composers, while others are facsimiles of their music manuscripts, views of the towns they lived in, their birthplaces, and notable scenes in their careers.
115Phila. John Wanamaker New York
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