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Musical Courier 1904-05-18: Vol 48 Iss 1260, 1904
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1European Notes.
3Few poets have received such an ovation as that lately given to Detlef von Liliencron at Vienna. The poet himself and Max Devrient recited some of his works; the musical part consisted of his songs, "Auf dem Kirchhof" and "Maienkatzen," with Brahms music, sung by Frau Gutheil Schoder; "Schmerzen," an unpublished lied by Zemlinsky, sung by the same lady, who also sang An-sorge's "Acherontisches Fröstlein"; Reger's "Glückes Genug"; "Wiegenglied," by Eugen d'Albert, and a work hitherto unknown, "Blume," by Gutheil.
5The following was the program at a late benefit concert at Vienna: I, Massenet, romance from "Manon" (Frl. Bonci); II, Emil Sauer, sonata D major (Sauer); III, Mozart, air from the "Magic Flute" (Bonci); IV, Chopin, bolero, op. 19, nocturne, etude (Sauer); V, two old Italian airs (Bonci); VI, Liszt rhapsodie, No. 9, "Carneval de Pesti" (Sauer); VII, Puccini, air from "La Bohème" (Bonci). Piano accompaniments by Oscar Duchs.
7Wilhelm Berger, director of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, gave in this season eighteen concerts, at which were performed: Haydn, D major symphony; Mozart, D major symphony and "Serenade"; Beethoven, "Fourth" symphony, overture to "Coriolanus," "Egmont," "Lenore" No. 3; Schubert, C major symphony; Schumann, "Second" symphony; Weber, overtures to "Lord of the Spirits," "Freischütz," "Jubilee"; Mendelssohn, overture to "Melusina"; Wagner, preludes to "Tristan," "Meistersinger," "Tannhäuser," "Faust" overture; Berlioz, "Harold" symphony, "Roman Carneval"; Raff, "Im Walde"; Glinka, "Kamarinskaja"; Brahms, "First" and "Second" symphonies; Dvorák, "Heldenlied," symphonic poem; Saint-Saëns "Wheel of Omphale," "Youth of Hercules," tarantella for flute and clarinet; Sibelius, "Swan of Tuonela," "Lemminkainen Zieht Heimwärts"; Schillings, prelude to third act of "Pfeifertag," "Hexenlied"; Walter Lampe, two movements from a wind serenade (first time). Among the soloists were Charlotte Huhn, Isabella Berger, Hugo Becker, Hugo Heermann, Brau Elderling, Xaver Scharwenka, Barkhard, Hans Mühlfeld and Professor Berger. The orchestra in combination with the singing society gave two concerts at which they performed Heinrich Schutz's "Those Who Sow in Tears" (with trombone and organ), spiritual dialogue, "Woman, Why Weepest Thou?"; Bach's cantata, "He Shall Weep and Lament"; Beethoven, C major Mass; Mendelssohn, "Walpurgis Nacht"; Brahms, "Naenia," female chorus with harp and horns; Grieg, "At the Convent Gate." There were also four chamber music evenings, at which were performed string quartets by Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Volkmann; Mozart's trio for clarinet, viola and piano; Beethoven's 'cello sonata A major, sonata (op. 90) for piano; Schubert, "Forellen," quintet; Brahms, trio for clarinet, 'cello and piano; similar trio by Vincent d'Indy; Dvorák, piano quintet. The performers were the quartet of the court orchestra, Richard Mühlfeld and W. Berger. one of two readings
8Wilhelm Berger, director of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, gave in this season eighteen concerts, at which were performed: Haydn, D major symphony; Mozart, D major symphony and "Serenade"; Beethoven, "Fourth" symphony, overture to "Coriolanus," "Egmont," "Lenore" No. 3; Schubert, C major symphony; Schumann, "Second" symphony; Weber, overtures to "Lord of the Spirits," "Freischütz," "Jubilee"; Mendelssohn, overture to "Melusina"; Wagner, preludes to "Tristan," "Meistersinger," "Tannhäuser," "Faust" overture; Berlioz, "Harold" symphony, "Roman Carneval"; Raff, "Im Walde"; Glinka, "Kamarinskaja"; Brahms, "First" and "Second" symphonies; Dvorák, "Heldenlied," symphonic poem; Saint-Saëns "Wheel of Omphale," "Youth of Hercules," tarantella for flute and clarinet; Sibelius, "Swan of Tuonela," "Lemminkainen Zieht Heimwärts"; Schillings, prelude to third act of "Pfeifertag," "Hexenlied"; Walter Lampe, two movements from a wind serenade (first time). Among the soloists were Charlotte Huhn, Isabella Berger, Hugo Becker, Hugo Heermann, Brau Elderling, Xaver Scharwenka, Barkhard, Hans Mühlfeld and Professor Berger. The orchestra in combination with the singing society gave two concerts at which they performed Heinrich Schütz's "Those Who Sow in Tears" (with trombone and organ), spiritual dialogue, "Woman, Why Weepest Thou?"; Bach's cantata, "He Shall Weep and Lament"; Beethoven, C major Mass; Mendelssohn, "Walpurgis Nacht"; Brahms, "Naenia," female chorus with harp and horns; Grieg, "At the Convent Gate." There were also four chamber music evenings, at which were performed string quartets by Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Volkmann; Mozart's trio for clarinet, viola and piano; Beethoven's 'cello sonata A major, sonata (op. 90) for piano; Schubert, "Forellen," quintet; Brahms, trio for clarinet, 'cello and piano; similar trio by Vincent d'Indy; Dvorák, piano quintet. The performers were the quartet of the court orchestra, Richard Mühlfeld and W. Berger. one of two readings
10The Meiningen Orchestra will resume its concert tours outside of the Duchy in the late summer under the direction of Professor Berger, and be heard in a dozen or more large cities of Germany.
12The pianist Leo Kestenberg and the orchestra of the Seventy-fourth Austrian Infantry lately gave a very successful Liszt evening in Reichenberg. After an introductory address in honor of Liszt, Kestenberg played the A major concerto, the "Dance of Death" variations on the "Dies Irae," and the E flat major concerto. Herr Kosika recited Berger's "Lenore," to which Frl. Anna Herzog played the Liszt melodramatic accompaniment, and Josef Ulbrich sang two lieder, "Wieder Macht ich dir Begegnen" and the "King of Thule."
14Eugen Sandow celebrated April 18 the twenty-fifth year of his membership of the Royal Orchestra. This distinguished 'cellist was born in Berlin in 1850, and when at the high school was a pupil of Wilhelm Müller, then the 'cellist of the Joachim Quartet. Sandow is a teacher in the Stern Conservatory and a member of the Holland String Quartet. With his wife, Adelina Sandow-Hermes, he has given many successful concerts in Berlin and other large cities.
16Karl Udel, the founder and guiding spirit of the Udel Vocal Quartet, has been compelled by an incurable disease of the eyes to retire from his work. He is now sixty years old, and naturally, too, his voice is not what it used to be. He is a thorough musician and an excellent performer on all string instruments except the double bass. The Udel Quartet was formed in 1880 after he had been for ten years a member of the Kuns Quartet. His merit lies in his introduction of humor into the concert hall.
18Leipsic, New Theatre, April 11, "Flying Dutchman"; 12th, "Undine"; 13th, "Tannhäuser"; 15th, "Sunken Bell"; 16th, "Daughter of the Regiment"; 17th, "Mignon."
20An interesting letter by Robert Franz has lately appeared. Like all letters of his last years it is written in pencil, as a nervous condition of the upper arm made it impossible for him to do any continuous writing and rendered the use of pen and ink unsuitable. In it he defends himself against the reproach of having devoted himself exclusively to the lied. Not only did his own genius impel him to adopt this form, but also the conviction that the field of the lied had not been fully exploited, and that it was capable of further development. "Whether these limits," he continues, "can be extended as far as modern realism desires is a question that I cannot decide." Regarding his work he tells us that without Schubert and Schumann it would have been impossible for him to have expressed himself in a purely musical point of view, but as these masters had only a very limited influence other elements must be taken into account in judging him—Bach, Handel and the old German volkslied—and as all these factors influenced him at the same time they resulted in a process of association. The process was unconscious, and was only perceived by him when he had to defend himself.
22Dr. Friedrich Roth lately published in a Berlin magazine a valuable contribution to the history of the meistersingers and the meistersingers with its relations to the religious popular movements before and at the beginning of the Reformation. The number of the prominent persons mentioned in the histories of the meistersingers is small, but Roth has revived the memory of the almost forgotten Georg Breunings, of Augsburg. Dr. Roth shows, from sources hitherto unused, that long before the time of Hans Sachs, the meistersingers had been organized into societies and had taken part in the religious struggles of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he further throws new light on the history of the Waldenses and the Anabaptists, and on the development of religious literature and spiritual conditions before the Reformation.
24The city of Frankfort proposes to create a public musical library, as necessary for all students of music, who at present (owing to the high prices of the published works of the great composers) have no opportunity of studying the productions of either the modern or older masters. The Frankfort Free Library and Reading Room is willing to receive contributions.
26The Stuttgart Liederkranz lately had a Brahms Festival, on its reception of a life size bust of Brahms from Frau Dr. Fellinger. This lady, a devoted friend of Brahms, executed the bust with her own hands.
28The wind musicians of the Court Orchestra of Vienna produced lately at the Museum a symphony in E minor for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two fagotti, a contrabassoon and three horns, by Hans Bill; also an unpublished suite by Richard Strauss in B flat major for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, three fagotti, one contrabassoon and four horns.
30There is trouble with the musicians of Vienna. The members of the Hofburg Theatre want more pay. Forty years ago they received for the season 650 florins (say $320), while now they receive at the utmost only 600 florins, or $288. They also had two days a week free. At the Hof Theatre the trouble is about a pension. A member for no fault of her own was not re-engaged for the last year before the time when she would have been entitled to a pension. She fell into dire poverty and then remembered that she had contributed 5,000 florins to the pension fund. Three years ago she received from the management 1,000 florins, but lately, after having undergone an operation, she applied for further relief, which was refused.
32The Munich branch of the General German Music Society began its spring arrangements at the Kaim Hall, April 29, with a concert devoted exclusively to compositions by Max Reger.
34The "Harald" symphony of Paul Ertel had its first complete performance at Montreux lately. Only the second movement, the "Love Scene," had been previously given (in Berlin) at a concert by Richard Strauss.
36Cyril Kistler's "Röslein im Hag" was performed some months ago at Elberfeld, and his three act opera, "Der
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