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Musical Courier 1909-09-15: Vol 59 Iss 11, 1909
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1In fact, most of Sinding's works are published by the Danish house. Halvorsen's new works are three orchestral suites—"Tordenskjold," "Gurre," and "Der König," respectively op. 18, 17 and 19. Some seasons ago Halvorsen set the Handel passacaglia for violin and viola. Now Michael Press has re-treated Halvorsen's work for violin and cello. Halvorsen, last year, wrote a violin concerto for Kathleen Parlow, a fact then reported from this office. Emil Sjögren's new works at Hansen's are a piano theme and variations, op. 48, and an organ prelude and fugue, op. 49. There is an organ passacaglia by F. Mathison-Hanson. Louis Glass brings a second sonata, op. 29, for violin and piano. Axel Heine's op. 9 is a melodic suite for piano trio, Ludwig Langgaard's "Felsenblumen" is also for piano trio. K. Steenden's op. 5 is of two books of lyric pieces for violin and piano, and Hilda Sehestad brings fantaisie pieces for cello and piano. Other piano compositions are Viggo Brodersen's five pieces, op. 3; Alfred Tofft's three "Stimmungsbilder," op. 46; F. Henriques' twenty easy pieces are his op. 30. Five composers are represented by new songs, among which are Christoph Barnekow's editing of old sacred songs with organ, these by Joh. Christian and Ph. Em. Bach, and Joh. A. P. Schulz. Original songs include Per Lassen's from "Stamme Asra"; Otto Malling's group, called "Mirza Schaffy," op. 69; Jacob Fabricius' three "Ernste Lieder" for medium voice; M. Schjelderup's two groups, comprising his op. 62 and op. 63.
3The intention of the Russischer Music Verlag (Berlin) is to establish a press largely for compositions of Russian composers. The business organization is that of a limited stock company. The first actual work of music printing is being conducted in Leipsic, through the firm's agent, Kistner. Though a full list of their compositions in work is not available, it is known that there are a piano quintet by Katoire, a piano sonata, op. 53, by Scriabine, and a piano sonata by Goedicke. Some time may yet elapse before the new firm comes into market.
5D. Rahter has just issued a complete 300 page catalogue, whose last sixty pages classify the works issued for the decade 1900-1910. Just now appearing for orchestra is Balakirew's Oriental fantaisie, "Islamey," and W. Braunfels' symphonic variations on a child song of the Old French. Wilhelm Berger shows three ballads for baritone and orchestra, Siegmund Hausegger a work called "Weihenacht," for mezzo voice, solo violin and small orchestra. Theodor Podbertsky brings male choruses in larger forms. There is an easy quartet (house music) for piano and strings, by Fred Seitz. The English organists, Lemare, Silver and Goss-Custard, have set a half dozen Tschaikowsky pieces for their instrument. W. H. Pommer (Cincinnati) has five salon pieces for violin and piano, Hans Hermann six miniature piano solos for children, Ed. Podini a piano suite, called "Kleines Dekameron," and Emil Kronke (Dresden) three books of modern piano studies. Mr. Rahter has planned four composition concerts for Leipsic in October, November and December. The first will be of songs, given by Mme. Böhm van Endert (Dresden) and Kase, of Leipsic; the second, of new Slavonian music, played by Ignaz Friedmann, S. Bortkiewicz and tenor Scheiness; the third, a concert and reception for Wolf Ferrari, on the occasion of his "Vita Nuova," being given in the Gewandhaus, and the fourth will be a children's concert of house music. The "Vita Nuova" will be given in Baltimore in February, under Conductor Joseph Packer. Other concerts under Rahter protection will be eight in October, given along the Rhine by Willy Rehberg, who will also talk. The Hugo Kaun symphonic poems, "Hiawatha" and "Minnehaha," will be given in Berlin under Conductor Langs; the Kaun piano quintet, op. 39, at a Kaun concert in Krefeld in November. The same composer's piano concerto was played in Cologne and Dortmund by Madame Saat-Weber, and at a Kaun concert in Wildung in July, chamber music, songs and the symphony were performed. The fine Schellings fantastic piano suite of 1907 is in the Rahter catalogue, where it still shows signs of life.
7George Merseburger's (Carl Merseburger) principal publishing is of books and works for musical instruction, but he has just taken over a number of compositions by Rudolph Zwintscher. They were formerly published in commission by the late Franz Jost. The works are a "Dithyramb" and a very large cycle "In Italy," for baritone and piano; furthermore, seven songs. The firm's new books include the fourth revised edition of Emil Vogel's "Cremona," on Italian violin masters, the book including a catalogue of the known Strads and their owners. There is a new edition of F. L. Schubert's "Vorschule zum Komponiren," now by Karl Kipke. A former book from the Merseburger press was Albert Fuchs' "Taxe der Streichinstrumente," wherein the author tried to help fix values on all old instruments. For years this house has been publishing the so-called "orchestral studies," with exercises containing difficulties analogous to those found in the accustomed orchestral repertory. The books are for every orchestral instrument, and each year finds several new volumes. Besides these the autumn brings original solo works for harp alone, and for harp and piano, by Edmund Schuecker, of Boston.
9The Julius Heinrich Zimmermann influence is primarily known in Leipsic, Riga, St. Petersburg and in all Russia, as a musical merchandise firm. The Leipsic house, under a son, Eugen Zimmermann, carries probably the largest ready stock of instruments in the world. They have the Russian agency for the Steinway and Blüthner pianos, which they market successfully. Their publishing of good music began only a few seasons ago. Their chief work for this year is the launching of S. Kasanlis' grand opera "Miranda" in St. Petersburg, where the work will be given in the Imperial opera. Zimmermann published late in 1908 Balakirew's second symphony. For 1909 the firm is bringing the same composer's Chopin suite for orchestra, built on four Chopin piano pieces. The work is designed for the Chopin birth centennial at Warsaw in February, when a Chopin monument will be also unveiled. Next in importance is Tor Aulin's "Meister Olaf" suite, op. 22, for orchestra, also his third violin concerto, first played at Hamburg-Altona and to be played in Berlin by Marteau early in the autumn. The prime interest among piano novelties will rest with the nine pieces by Ferruccio Busoni. They are supposed to be for youthful musicians, but nobody believes that the youth will be able to reach them without a step ladder. Liapounow has here a humoresque, op. 34, and six divertissements, op. 35, for piano. Josef Hofmann has a series of piano pieces dedicated to Godowsky. Among the year's early output were a piano "Solitude" by Sapelnikoff, and piano pieces by Constantin von Sternberg, of Philadelphia. The harpist, Wilh. Posse of Berlin, brings a new editing of a pastoral sonata for harp alone, by F. Dizi. An important violin arrangement for concert use is Leopold Auer's setting of a Mozart gavotte for violin and piano.
11Otto Junne publishes two works for large orchestra, the symphonic poem "Hero and Leander" by Paul Ertel (Berlin), and a tone poem by the Altenburg conductor, Theodor Blumer, whose "Carnivalscenes" was given in the Gewandhaus last year. The Ertel poem was given in manuscript in Berlin by the Blüthner Orchestra under Carl Panzner, and it was strongly approved. Solo songs here include Alex Schwartz's settings of poems by Carmen Sylva, also songs by H. Erler and Jos. Doebber. There are male choruses by Schwammel (Innsbruck) and F. Nowowiejski's "Mer ein Wörtchen," which has become a repertory piece of the Berliner Lehrergesangverein. Liturgical music includes Emil Wagner's organ variations, "Vom Himmel hoch" and his "Vaterunser" motet for mixed chorus. Further, ten organ pieces, op. 81, by Moritz Nogel (Leipsic), Br. Dost's "Ps. CIII" for mixed chorus, and Joh. Diebold's third book of modern organ masters. The Diebold book contains forty-five compositions, of which the last eight have obligatos of some stringed instruments. Other pieces for organ are by Jos. Beringer (San Fransisco), Th. A. Römer (Magdeburg) and H. Daffner, of Dresden. Daffner brings also a piano trio, his opus 10.
13Far the most important work new in the press of Gebrüder Hug & Co. is Fritz Volbach's B minor symphony, which was strongly approved upon its manuscript rendition at the June festival in Stuttgart. Fritz Steinbach will conduct the symphony at a Gürzenich concert in Cologne. Next comes the orchestral "Apostaten Marsch," with male chorus, the op. 2, by Rudolph Siegel, of Munich. This work also created a strong impression at the Stuttgarter festival. The text is a spiteful political poem written in 1844 by Gottfried Keller. The orchestral score is not merely an accompaniment, but an independent work. The young composer pupil of Mrs. Reger, Othmar Schoeck is represented by a sonata for violin and piano, and no less than fifty-seven solo songs with piano. This firm brought last year the same composer's three movement orchestral serenade for strings, which was played as a Prüfung work by the Leipsic Conservatory student orchestra. Hans Huber is in press with his sonata, op. 130, for cello and piano, and Volkmar Andrae by his second piano trio, op. 14. Andrae brings also fourteen songs, his op. 10, 12 and 15. Wilhelm Berger (Meiningen) has an a capella male chorus ballade entitled "Pharaoh." It is of about the scope of the Hegar ballades. Hug & Co. still maintain lively interest in Volbach's "Am Siegfried Brunnen," a mood picture for male chorus and orchestra, published in 1907.
15The senior member of the house Gebrüder Hug, Emil Hug, of Zürich, died there on July 15, aged 67 years. The house was established at Zürich in 1807.
17Ernst Eulenberg's catalogue of miniature scores is enlarged by those of Max Reger's second string quartet, op. 109; Jan Sibelius' quartet, op. 56; the Richard Strauss piano quartet, op. 13; the Brahms academic festival and the tragic overtures, also Brahms' (orchestral) variations on the Haydn theme. The house is bringing out the symphonic poem "Frühling," by Vincenz Reifner, of Teplitz, in Bohemia. Stephan Krehl's piano trio, op. 32; Hans Sitt's three violin pieces, op. 102, and a dozen songs by Bruno Hinze-Reinhold are among the new works to appear. Large interest attaches to Felix Mottl's instrumentation of a Bach secular cantata for soprano, basso and orchestra, with choral finale. The cantata, "Mer han en neue Oberkeet," was in honor of the coming of a new owner of the Klein Zschocher estates at the edge of Leipsic. The work in Mottl's arrangement has been given by the Bachverein of Heidelberg under Dr. Wolfrum. The male chorus literature is enlarged by Victor Keldorfer's setting of four famous dance melodies by Josef Strauss (1827-1870), brother to Johann Strauss. The Reger quartet, op. 109, will be played here in November by the Bohemians. The Reifner symphonic poem was variously given in manuscript last season in Austrian cities.
19Max Brockhaus' catalogue never brings anything but operas and incidental music to dramatic works. Siegfried Wagner's opera "Banadietrich" is now on the press, also Humperdinck's opera of "Die Königskinder." Humperdinck's first music on the subject was only incidental to a fairy play, but last season the work was enlarged and performed as a full blooded opera. The Brockhaus Press is still busied with Humperdinck's music to other plays, a part of which music was issued last year. It includes music for actual use with "The Merchant of Venice," "Tempest," "Winter's Tale," "As You Like It," and now for Ibsen's "Fest auf Solhaug." Among the numerous live operas in this catalogue is the Karl Weis "Revisor," first played as comedy, but finely successful as comic opera when issued so in 1901. It had translation and performance in five languages.
21C. F. W. Siegel (R. Linnemann) is publishing a number of large works by the late Erich Wolf Degner, who was at the time of his death director of the Weimar Musik Schule. The works are a symphony for orchestra and organ, a serenade for eight wind instruments and strings, a legende entitled "Maria und die Mutter," for contralto and baritone solo, mixed chorus and orchestra; also a set of choral variations for violin and organ. There are two previously unpublished humorous sketches for double male chorus, by Felix Mendelssohn, printed from manuscripts in the Royal Library at Berlin. Other works for chorus are Othegraven's "Bauernaufstand," for male chorus and orchestra; also works by C. Kühnhold, E. Erdelmann, Hermann Stephani, Stephan Krehl (Leipsic Conservatory), Hans Grisch (Krell pupil, also in conservatory faculty), Th. Podbertsky, Gerhard Schjelderup (twelve Norwegian folk themes), Louis Victor Saar (Cincinnati), also F. Nägler's male chorus operetta "Eye of the Law," and Josef Piber's one act singspiel "Die Liebspeis," for solo, mixed quartet and piano or orchestra. Saar's string quartet, op. 39; his sonata for piano and violin, op. 44, and some three voice women choruses were issued here some seasons ago. New concerted music includes Em. Moor's violin suite, op. 73, newly set for orchestra. His fourth violin concerto, op. 72; double concerto for cellos, op. 69; triple concerto, op. 70, for piano, violin and cello, were issued last season. The 1909-crop further includes Moor's op. 73 and op. 74, a suite and a sonata for piano and violin; Hans Grisch's octet for wind instruments and strings is available, also his eight miniatures for piano solo. Krehl's three piano pieces, op. 30, are in work. New songs and duets are by R. von Mojisiovic, A. Sandberger, Grisch, Gerhard Stelmann and Van der Stucken. Max Meyer-Olbersleben has three songs for high voice and orchestra. Of these the "Totentanz" is said to be especially strong. Last year Siegels issued Rich. Wagner's sketches for "Meistersinger," "Tristan" and "Parsifal," and for two or three seasons they have been publishing a series of striking engravings on Wagnerian characters and scenes. The drawings are by Hugo L. Braune, of Munich. The house has just brought out Dr. Arthur Prüfer's revised and enlarged edition of "Das Werk von Bayreuth." The matter was first a set of lectures of 1899, but much material is now added. It has to do with the Bayreuth staging of all the Wagner festival performances in their turn. Dr. Prüfer is a lecturer at Leipsic University. one of two readings
22C. F. W. Siegel (R. Linnemann) is publishing a number of large works by the late Erich Wolf Degner, who was at the time of his death director of the Weimar Musik Schule. The works are a symphony for orchestra and organ, a serenade for eight wind instruments and strings, a legende entitled "Maria und die Mutter," for contralto and baritone solo, mixed chorus and orchestra; also a set of choral variations for violin and organ. There are two previously unpublished humorous sketches for double male chorus, by Felix Mendelssohn, printed from manuscripts in the Royal Library at Berlin. Other works for chorus are Othegraen's "Bauernaufstand," for male chorus and orchestra; also works by C. Kühnhold, E. Erdelmann, Hermann Stephani, Stephan Krehl (Leipsic Conservatory), Hans Grisch (Krell pupil, also in conservatory faculty), Th. Podbertsky, Gerhard Schjelderup (twelve Norwegian folk themes), Louis Victor Saar (Cincinnati), also F. Nägler's male chorus operetta "Eye of the Law," and Josef Piber's one act singspiel "Die Liebspeis," for solo, mixed quartet and piano or orchestra. Saar's string quartet, op. 39; his sonata for piano and violin, op. 44, and some three voice women choruses were issued here some seasons ago. New concerted music includes Em. Moor's violin suite, op. 73, newly set for orchestra. His fourth violin concerto, op. 72; double concerto for cellos, op. 69; triple concerto, op. 70, for piano, violin and cello, were issued last season. The 1909-crop further includes Moor's op. 73 and op. 74, a suite and a sonata for piano and violin; Hans Grisch's octet for wind instruments and strings is available, also his eight miniatures for piano solo. Krehl's three piano pieces, op. 30, are in work. New songs and duets are by R. von Mojisiovic, A. Sandberger, Grisch, Gerhard Stelmann and Van der Stucken. Max Meyer-Olbersleben has three songs for high voice and orchestra. Of these the "Totentanz" is said to be especially strong. Last year Siegels issued Rich. Wagner's sketches for "Meistersinger," "Tristan" and "Parsifal," and for two or three seasons they have been publishing a series of striking engravings on Wagnerian characters and scenes. The drawings are by Hugo L. Braune, of Munich. The house has just brought out Dr. Arthur Prüfer's revised and enlarged edition of "Das Werk von Bayreuth." The matter was first a set of lectures of 1899, but much material is now added. It has to do with the Bayreuth staging of all the Wagner festival performances in their turn. Dr. Prüfer is a lecturer at Leipsic University. one of two readings
24The Gebrüder Reinecke publish now for the very first time Ch. W. Gluck's solo cantata "I Lamenti d'Amore" for soprano, violins, viola, cello and contrabass. The work is edited by Joseph Liebeskind, of Leipsic, who owns this and many other valuable manuscripts by Gluck and Dittersdorf. The preponderance of works now in the Reinecke press are male choruses, including op. 25, op. 26, op. 27 and op. 28 by Georg Henschel, the op. 44 by Arthur Seybold, a Carl Reinecke setting of a Kerner poem, also Richard Fricke's three songs, op. 51, for mixed chorus, and his editing of a "Geistliches Wiegelnlied" from the "Seraphisch Lustgart" of 1635, here given for two part chorus and organ. Then there are a children's operetta, "Traumfriedel," op. 278, by Carl Reinecke; his cello romanza (concertstück) with orchestra, three books of "Flower Songs" for piano, a bar-
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