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Musical Courier 1907-10-02: Vol 55 Iss 14, 1907
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1DE PACHMANN FACTS.
2The Chicago Inter Ocean prints the following interesting and unconventional sketch of De Pachmann:
3"Paradoxical as it may appear, Vladimir de Pachmann's biography offers the most barren field imaginable for the searcher after the secret of the man's magic art. All that has been gathered definitely about the early training of the greatest Chopin player of his day is that, save his father (an amateur violinist) and Professor Dachs, of the Vienna Conservatorium, De Pachmann's only other teacher was himself. Or, as he puts it: 'I learned from the sunshines and shadows of life; both have been my lot.' To intimates, however, De Pachmann has confided that he followed his first great successes in Russia, Paris, London, Germany and Denmark with a prolonged period of monastic retirement devoted to the most rigid self discipline and prodigious technical practice. When he reappeared, De Pachmann's American debut in 1890 proved to be a revelation to the piano playing world, and since then further tours in this country—the latest in 1904—and concerts in all the capitals of Europe have served to augment his fame to a point beyond which no pianist ever achieved.
4"The psychologist who peers into the souls of artists finds a fascinating but elusive problem in that of Vladimir de Pachmann. He is an emotional chameleon, reflecting in his playing the whole gamut of musical moods and tenses. No less handicapped than the psychologist is the historian of the tonal art who tries to fix an exact estimate of De Pachmann's personality. There exists no gauge by which to measure him, for he is like nobody else and nobody else is like him. The mere biographer faces the most baffling task of all, for the closest scanning of the musical mile posts along the early road traveled by De Pachmann reveals neither the source of his unique direction nor the manner in which he finally reached his miraculous goal.
5"Some writers on music attempt to explain ethnologically for history records the name of many other piano playing sons of Russia—some even native to Chopin's soil—who never were able to read into the master tone poet's music such elfish humor and dulcet morbidezza, such impetuous joys and strange sorrows as Vladimir de Pachmann reveals in the mazurkas, polonaises, nocturnes, scherzos, ballades, preludes, valse, etudes and sonatas of Frédéric François Chopin.
6"Chopin and De Pachmann! Does the one name ever suggest itself without the other in closest association? And yet the subtle nature of the communion defies any and every attempt at analysis. It was that keen and fine sensed critic, Philip Hale, who wrote: 'A phrase of Chopin, to borrow a fine thought of Hazlitt inspired by a Mozartian melody, when it is invoked by De Pachmann, comes from the air and then returns.'
7"Besides Hale, every other critic of prominence in the musical world has lavished the most ecstatic praise on De Pachmann's art, and he inspired such masters of the prose phrase as Newman, Symons and Blackburn to pen in their published books rhetorical rhapsodies which have taken their place in the enduring musical literature of all time.
8"When De Pachmann plays here this season on his farewell American tour, it will be found that he is still the same necromancer whose playing never palls, whose music has a witchery all its own, and whose potent personality no audience can resist."
9his marvelous interpretations of Chopin, the Pole, for De Pachmann was born in Odessa, Russia, July 27, 1848. However, the mystery is deepened by that very connection, for history records the name of many other piano playing sons of Russia—some even native to Chopin's soil—who never were able to read into the master tone poet's music such elfish humor and dulcet morbidezza, such impetuous joys and strange sorrows as Vladimir de Pachmann reveals in the mazurkas, polonaises, nocturnes, scherzos, ballades, preludes, valse, etudes and sonatas of Frédéric François Chopin.
10"Chopin and De Pachmann! Does the one name ever suggest itself without the other in closest association? And yet the subtle nature of the communion defies any and every attempt at analysis. It was that keen and fine sensed critic, Philip Hale, who wrote: 'A phrase of Chopin, to borrow a fine thought of Hazlitt inspired by a Mozartian melody, when it is invoked by De Pachmann, comes from the air and then returns.'
11"Besides Hale, every other critic of prominence in the musical world has lavished the most ecstatic praise on De Pachmann's art, and he inspired such masters of the prose phrase as Newman, Symons and Blackburn to pen in their published books rhetorical rhapsodies which have taken their place in the enduring musical literature of all time.
12"When De Pachmann plays here this season on his farewell American tour, it will be found that he is still the same necromancer whose playing never palls, whose music has a witchery all its own, and whose potent personality no audience can resist."
13The principal cities of Italy this season will give, almost exclusively, a Sonzognian repertory. Ricordi operas will be few and far between.
15RIDER-KELSEY
16SOPRANO
17Oratorio, Concert and Song Recitals
18SOLE MANAGEMENT
19HENRY WOLFSOHN
20131 East 17th Street, New York
22DANIEL FROHMAN PRESENTS
23KUBELIK
24Season 1907-1908
25KNABE PIANO USED
27MRS. CARL ALVES
28AMERICAN CONTRALTO
29VOCAL INSTRUCTION
30PUPILS PREPARED FOR CHURCH AND ORATORIO
31Leipsic, 61 Kaiser Wilhelm Str., I.
32J. FRED WOLLE,
33Address
34ORGANIST
35THE WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU, 131 East 17th St., New York
37LENA DORIA DEVINE
38TEACHER
39Lamperti Method Of Singing
40NEW YORK, WINTER TERM PARIS, SUMMER TERM
41Teacher of BLANCHE DUFFIELD: Coloratura Soprano, Sopra's Band, Herber Orchestra, Opera, Opera, Opera, Opera, MARIE HUFFEE, Dramatic Soprano, Metropolitan Grand Opera Co., Italian Grand Opera, Italy; BESSIE ABOTT, Soprano, Metropolitan Grand Opera Co., Grand Opera, Paris; CLARA M. HAMMER, Coloratura Soprano, National Grand Opera Co.; MARIE LOUISE GEHLE, Coloratura Soprano, National Grand Opera Co.; MRS. HENRY HYDE, Mezzo Soprano; MINNIE MINCK, Soprano; JOSEPH MILLER, Bass; EDWARD W. GRAY, Tenor (Old First Presbyterian Church); ASSUNTA DE ROSA, Coloratura Soprano; and many others. one of two readings
42Teacher of BLANCHE DUFFIELD: Coloratura Soprano, Sopra's Band, Herber Orchestra, Opera, Opera, Opera, etc. MARIE HUFFE, Dramatic Soprano, Metropolitan Grand Opera Co., Italian Grand Opera, Italy; BESSIE ABOTT, Soprano, Metropolitan Grand Opera Co., Grand Opera, Paris; CLARA M. HAMMER, Coloratura Soprano, National Grand Opera Co.; MARIE LOUISE GEHLE, Coloratura Soprano, National Grand Opera Co.; MRS. R. H. RYDE, Mezzo Soprano; MINNIE MINCK, Soprano; JOSEPH MILLER, Bass; EDWARD W. GRAY, Tenor (Old First Presbyterian Church); ASSUNTA DE ROSA, Coloratura Soprano; and many others. one of two readings
43Studio: 136 Fifth Avenue New York
45OSCAR SAENGER
46TEACHER OF SINGING
47Teacher of Mme. Josephine Jacoby, contralto, the Conried Grand Opera Co.; Mme. Marie Rappold, soprano, Conried Grand Opera Co.; Allen C. Hinchey, bass, Conried Grand Opera Co.; Mme. Anna Adamson, soprano, Grand Opera, Australia; Mme. Bernice de Pasquali, soprano, Grand Opera, Italy; Leon Rains, basso, Royal Opera House, Dresden, Germany; Joseph Baerstein-Keges, basso, Gellert Opera, Germany; Ethel D. Leonard, contralto; Bessie Bowman-Este, contralto; Hildegard Hoffmann-Huss, soprano; Elsa Marshall, soprano; Alice Merritt-Cochran, soprano; Grace Longley, soprano; Marie Stoddart, soprano; Elizabeth Blamere, soprano; Laura M. H. M. soprano; Mille Pottigues, contralto; Kathleen H. Ford, contralto; John Young, tenor; George Murphy, tenor; Alfred B. Dickinson, tenor; Walden Laakey, baritone; Irvin Myers, baritone; Henri G. Scott, basso. one of two readings
48Teacher of Mme. Josephine Jacoby, contralto, the Conried Grand Opera Co.; Mme. Marie Rappold, soprano, Conried Grand Opera Co.; Allen C. Hinchey, bass, Conried Grand Opera Co.; Mme. Anna Adamson, soprano, Grand Opera, Australia; Mme. Bernice de Pasquali, soprano, Grand Opera, Italy; Leon Rains, basso, Royal Opera House, Dresden, Germany; Joseph Baerstein-Keges, basso, Gellert Opera, Germany; Ethel D. Leonard, contralto; Bessie Bowman-Este, contralto; Hildegard Hoffmann-Huss, soprano; Elsa Marshall, soprano; Alice Merritt-Cochran, soprano; Grace Longley, soprano; Marie Stoddart, soprano; Elizabeth Blamere, soprano; Laura H. H. Moore, soprano; Mille Pottigues, contralto; Kathleen H. Ford, contralto; John Young, tenor; George Murphy, tenor; Alfred B. Dickinson, tenor; Walden Laakey, baritone; Irvin Myers, baritone; Henri G. Scott, basso. one of two readings
49Telephone, 3669 Plaza Studio: 61 East 64th Street, New York
50WILL RESUME TEACHING SEPTEMBER 23rd
52AUGUSTA
53STEINWAY PIANO USED
54COTTLOW
55MAX DECSI
56VOICE SPECIALIST
571213 CARNEGIE HALL
58NEW YORK CITY
60THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC OF CINCINNATI
61Announces the engagement of
62HENRI ERN
63Renowned Swiss Violinist
64—AND—
65JOSEPH O'MEARA
66(Well-known Actor and former leading man to Rhea, Bertha Kalisch and Nance O'Neil) for Election
67THIRTIETH ACADEMIC YEAR BEGINS SEPT. 4TH.
68Maintains a higher standard for graduation than any other school of music in America. Endowed, and NOT conducted for profit; thus affording a faculty of teachers unexcelled in their specialties and general musicianship. A certificate or diploma from the College of Music of Cincinnati is an "open sesame" to a good position.
69Address
70THE COLLEGE OF MUSIC OF CINCINNATI, Elm Street, Adj. Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio
72FIRST AMERICAN TOUR SEASON 1907-8. THE NEW VIOLINIST
73KARL KLEIN
74AUGUST WILHELMJ writes:
75"You have captured all London with your magnificent playing."
76"The technical difficulties of the Concerto (Tschaikowsky) are immense, yet I have never yet heard them overcome with such consummate technical skill and such beauty of tone, which at once stamped the new comer an artist of the purest water."—London Violin Times.
77"Whoever plays the difficult, eternally beautiful Brahms Concerto so masterly as Herr Klein did, needs hardly special recommendation."—Illustrated Vienna Extrablatt.
79BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS TO
80F.O. RENARD, 444 Central Park West, New York
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