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Musical Courier 1906-12-19: Vol 53 Iss 1395, 1906
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1devoted to songs by American composers, and this event was eagerly anticipated, particularly in the colony."
3"The same evening the Brussels String Quartet gave their last concert of the season at Bechstein Hall, playing the Schubert D minor (posthumous) and the Beethoven F minor quartets, and a new quintet by Paul Juon for piano, violin, two bratsches and 'cello, in which they had the able assistance of Vera Maurina. These artists maintain the high standing to which they have attained by reason of their talent, aided by constant ensemble work, and though they have been heard to greater advantage than on this occasion, yet their performance, musically and technically, was of a lofty order. The Juon quintet is a well sounding and pleasing work, and admirably adapted to the various instruments. The piano part is particularly interesting, and was charmingly rendered by the young Russian artist."
5His Excellency, General Intendant von Hulsen, of the Royal Opera, announces that twenty times as many applications have been received for tickets for the premiere of Richard Strauss' "Salome," which will occur December 5, as can be supplied. The first Munich production of the opera took place last Sunday, when it met with frenetic applause, and also with energetic opposition. The performance under Mottl is said to have been splendid.
7At the great musical festival of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musik-Verein, which will be held in Dresden next May, the Dresden Royal Orchestra will assist, and Ernst von Schuch will be the festival conductor. The committee has already been appointed and consists of Ober-Bürgermeister Buettler, Ernst von Schuch, Richard Strauss and Max Schillings. It is probable that the composers will, for the most part, conduct their own works in person. Aside from the concerts, which will be given in the Exposition Palace, there will be operatic performances in the Royal Opera House, where Strauss' "Salome" and "Feuersnot," Schillings' "Moloch" and the "Meistersinger" will be given.
9Emil Sauer has resigned from his post as head of the Master School of piano playing at the Vienna Conservatory, which he has held with great success during the past five years. Difficulties with the director of the school are said to be the cause of Sauer's retirement. It is rumored, however, that a new director is to be appointed next year, and this fact may have influence upon Sauer's decision.
11Jenő Hubay, the celebrated Hungarian violinist, has composed an opera entitled "Lavotha's Love," which was recently performed in Budapest with much success, and was cordially received by the public. The text, which deals with the love affair of the Hungarian poet, Lavotha, is not very interesting, and the music is said to be rather weak in melodic invention, however.
13Vienna is soon to have a music museum. The collection of manuscripts, portraits, busts, instruments and so forth, which has hitherto been owned by the "Society of Music Lovers," is to be very much enlarged, and to become municipal property. The new museum will contain a very large number of original manuscripts of Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Weber, Spohr, Mendelssohn, Brahms and others; also Haydn's skull and many other interesting relics of the great classical composers.
15The well known piano house of Rud. Ibach Sohn, has opened a new chamber music hall in their warerooms in Dusseldorf. It seats one hundred and fifty persons and is said to have exceptionally good acoustics. A hall of this kind for such intimate chamber music performances was needed in Dusseldorf. The opening concert was given by the Marteau Quartet.
17Concertmeister Bernhard Dessau, of the Royal Orchestra, has received the title of Professor.
19Max Reger will give an evening of his own compositions here on December 8, when he will have the assistance of Carl Halir, violin; Paul Goldschmidt, piano, and Else Schünemann, vocal.
21Henri Marteau, at his concert with the Mozart Orchestra next Tuesday, will introduce a new violin concerto by Emanuel Moor.
23The stork has been quite busy flying over musical Berlin of late. He has brought Theodor Spiering a daughter, and Conductor August Scharrer, of the Philharmonic Orchestra, a son; while Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, the celebrated Hungarian alto, who lives here, and also Josef Hofmann are anticipating a visit from him in the near future. [The Hofmanns have already been visited.—Editor Musical Courier.]
25From Warsaw come tidings of the great success of Miss Margaret Melville, the American composer-pianist, who played the Chopin F minor concerto there at the last Warsaw Philharmonic concert. She was several times recalled and compelled to give two encores, an unusual happening at Philharmonic concerts.
27Richard Burmeister played in Leipsic and Halberstadt last week with pronounced success. In Leipsic he played for the first time his arrangement for piano and orchestra of Liszt's fifth rhapsody. Mr. Simpson has, no doubt, written you full particulars.
29In Halberstadt he rendered his own adaptation of six Chopin works to poems of Ujejski, thus: "Die Begräbnis" (The Funeral) is illustrated by the "Funeral March," "Die Verliebte" (The Lover) by the mazurka, op. 7, No. 2; "Himmelfahrtstraum" (Dream of Heavenly Ascent), by the prelude, op. 28, No. 7, and so forth. He also gave four further Chopin numbers, a polonaise, waltz, nocturne and scherzo, and was very enthusiastically received.
31Carl Klein, the young New York violinist, was very favorably written about by the press of Vienna on the occasion of his debut there last week. He will shortly be heard in Prague and Leipsic.
33Kubelik was severely criticised here by the greater part of the press. The Bohemian has never yet had good notices in Berlin.
35The Sonzogno prize of 25,000 francs for the best operatic text has been awarded to Dr. Faustus Salvatori.
37Mrs. George S. Palmer, née Neva Fenno, of New London, Conn., has arrived in Berlin and resumed her lessons with Mme. Mielke. She will probably give a concert here toward the end of the season.
39Professor Wesley Mills, of the McGill University and Conservatory, Montreal, is spending the winter in Berlin. He has written a book entitled "Voice Production in Singing and Speaking," which has recently been published by Lippincott. It is an elaborate and exhaustive treatise on the subject, and shows that Professor Mills has been a great student of the human voice. He is also a violin enthusiast, and he regularly attends all the violin concerts given here.
41The Berlin press was unanimous in praising Edith von Voigtländer for her splendid artistic work at her debut last week, both her talent and her excellent schooling being eulogized. She is a pupil of Issay Barmas, with whom she studied, first at the Stern Conservatory, then
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