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Musical Courier 1909-09-15: Vol 59 Iss 11, 1909
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1carole for violin and piano, his setting of the Beethoven G major violin rondo of 1792 for piano solo, furthermore his piano solo setting of a Mozart orchestral menuet, gavot and humoresque. The firm has a little booklet called "Die Ulktrompete." It is a collection of bona fide yarns of musicians.
3The publishing by J. Schubert & Co. has been principally that of simplified and transcribed arrangements of the classic and operatic literature. Within the last years they have had success with the August Stradal solo piano transcriptions of twelve Handel organ concertos and twelve concertos by Wilh. Friedemann Bach, also other material by Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Frescobaldi and J. S. Bach. Their output for 1909 embraces Stradal's piano setting of Phil. Em. Bach's D, E flat and F major symphonies, J. S. Bach's G major "Brandenburg" concerto and an F major chaconne originally written for organ by Henry Purcell. Other novelties are excerpts from modern operettas and ballets by Ludwig R. Chmel and Georg Mielke.
5C. F. Kahnt publishes now the sixth symphony, op. 36, by Prince Heinrich XXIV of Reuss, a symphony by Felix Woyrsch, and the first symphony by Kamillo Horn, of Vienna. There is a Kamillo Horn Society in Vienna, and it is partly through their sponsorship that the presses are this year working overtime on the Horn compositions. Besides the symphony, there are a violin fantaisie, a piano sonata, seven piano "Night Pictures," two melodramas with piano, seven large male, female and mixed choruses with orchestra, with piano and à capella, also a couple of dozen solo songs with piano. Georg Amft is collecting old master works of the organ; Bruno Rothig, of Leipsic, has a collection of funeral songs entitled "Feierklänge." Josef Weiss has here eight piano pieces, op. 59. The firm is just coming to market with the English translation of Breithaupt's work on "Piano Technic," the last volume of Goley Eberhardt's "Violin School" is issued this season; Richard Hofmann has elementary violin studies; Carl Pieper two books of studies on the Chopin studies. Georg Capellen has a book on "Harmonie und Melodienlehre," Schiedermair writes on "Bayreuther Festspiele"; Dr. Martin Seydl, of Leipsic University, has a book on "Grundfragen der Stimmkunde," and the various C. F. Kahnt contributions have got together the third book of discussions on modern composers, the present volume having to do with eighteen of them.
7For two or three years Friedrich Hofmeister (Carl W. Günther) has pursued the reviving interest in the lute and guitar and the firm's 1908 and 1909 publications follow those branches. Chief here are "Hannes Ruchs" ten soldier songs, which have been sung in manuscript for seasons, also a dozen new songs by the same composer. There were fifteen songs by Ruch issued here in 1908. Ruch is the pen name of Hans Richard Weinhöppel, a vocal instructor at Cologne Conservatory. Heinrich Albert, of Munich, has six modern songs with guitar, and there are seven songs with guitar by Käthe Hyam. Among important lute publications are two books by Walter Kornhas and a dozen songs by Robert Kothe, of Munich, who is one of the busiest of modern singers with lute. The house issues numberless other volumes of songs to lute or guitar, and sends out separate catalogues of violin, cello, mandolin, lute-guitar and cabaret songs. Two years ago Proprietor Günther began issuing a lilliput series of German classics. The tiny books are in very large sale owing to their neat binding and typography and their adaptability as gift volumes for holiday trade.
9The firm Arthur P. Schmidt is primarily at home in Boston, nevertheless, much engraving is done in Leipsic, where is also maintained a commodious branch house and separate personnel. The novelties especially connected with European trade are principally for piano, though Julius Klengel, of Leipsic Conservatory, has set for cello and piano five of the MacDowell "Woodland Sketches." Mrs. Beach is represented by her piano quintet, op. 67, and Arthur Foote by a trio, and a large suite for string orchestra. Among piano composers represented in the 1909 product, Rudolph Ganz has chief attention with a dance caprice, without opus number, and three piano pieces, his op. 10, a march grotesque, a fileuse pensive, and a melody in G. Jos. Weiss has three pieces, op. 53, and a menuet antique, op. 54. L. Pabst has his op. 48 for piano solo; Walter Niemann (Leipsic) three pieces, op. 7; Viktor Staub (Paris), an arabesque, op. 15; Mario Tarenghi (Milan), op. 45, for four hands; Rudolph Frimi (New York, three concert pieces, op. 55, and two pieces, op. 56; Max Benning (Berlin) has a dozen two voice fuguettes and fugues, op. 22; Jos. Haas, three fantaisie pictures, op. 9. The house brings out voluminous teaching and house music, among which a berceuse and gavot, op. 33, by Emil Kronke, of Dresden. Albert Renaud, organist at St. Germain-en-Laye, Paris, brings four organ pieces, op. 123. Geo. W. Chadwick's songs, "The Danza" was so well liked by the Kaiser when Schumann-Heink sang it last season, it is thought well to bring it in a German translation.
11Robert Forberg has the late Arno Hilf's cadenzas to the Paganini and Beethoven violin concertos. Hilf wrote a cadenza to the Brahms concerto, but as the owner of the concerto, Simrock, Berlin, had already a dozen cadenzas for the Brahms, Hilf's was not accepted. Among piano material brought by Forberg, interest naturally follows the announcement of piano pieces, which are the op. 6 and 7, by Sophie Menter. Richard Burmeister and Fr. Gernsheimier come with piano fantaisies; there is a piano scherzo by Louis Ree (Vienna) and Eugen d'Albert continues the editing of concert material, the present pieces by Chopin. There are five songs by Sinding, also songs by Max Schillings, d'Albert, Kienzl and Arnold Mendelssohn. Franz Mikorey is represented by "Gebet," for strings, harp, female or mixed chorus. There are many choruses here by Jos. B. Förster (Vienna), Othegraven, Jos. Piber, Th. Podbertsky, Jos. Suk, Jos. Berr, Rud Heyne, Carl Hirsch, Carl Kobath (Stiermark), G. Naumann, Jos. Renner, and a new liturgical edition of two Rheinberger masses for four voice chorus. Furthermore, August Nölk has a student concerto for cello, Rich. Seitz (Dessau) ten small concert pieces for violin, and Von Sponer (Leipsic), two sonatinas for violin and piano. Robert Forberg has the Leipsic agency for Jörgenson in Moscow, but announcement of the new Russian compositions is not yet received.
13EUGENE E. SIMPSON.
15De Segurola in Spain.
17Andrea Perello de Segurola, the basso, who is to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House this season, has spent a profitable summer singing in his native country, Spain. The following, a translation of an article published in a Milan (Italy) paper tells of the singer's success in Barcelona:
19One of the most useful elements and one of the most noteworthy during the present season at the Theater Las Arenas in Barcelona has been without doubt the bass, Perello de Segurola, an artist of versatile intelligence, of excellent schooling, and brilliant vocal means for whom the Barcelona public has not failed to give its most enthusiastic sympathy. An exceptional proof of how much he is a favorite was his benefit performance at which he sang in the first, third and fourth acts of "Faust," the well-known zarzuela of the Maestro Caballero, and then a duo from "L'Africaine," in which he revealed himself a most effective actor without mentioning his other qualities. He made a real creation of his part. Again the audience applauded with enthusiasm and insistence, and he was obliged to give many encores.—Il Mondo Artistico, Milan, August 21, 1909.
21Engagements for Kellerman.
23Marcus Kellerman, the bass-baritone, has been engaged as soloist by the Temple Beth-El, Seventy-sixth street and Fifth avenue. His autumn bookings also include the performance of "Hermann der Befreier," which the Beethoven Männerchor, of New York, will give November 7 to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Verein.
25Marie Zeckwer in Paterson.
27Among the soloists announced by the Orpheus Club, of Paterson, N. J., of which C. Mortimer C. Wiske is the director, are Marie Zeckwer, soprano; Leopold Winkler, pianist, and Annie Louise David, harpist. Miss Zeckwer has also been engaged to sing at the concert to be given by the United Singers of Long Island, September 27, in honor of the Hudson-Fulton celebration.
29Van Yorx Studio Reopened.
31Theodore van Yorx, the tenor and teacher, has returned to New York for the season. His studio at 434 Fifth avenue has been reopened. Mr. van Yorx anticipates one of the best years in his career. Many of the pupils have already resumed their lessons.
33Prof. Arnold Rosé, of Vienna, sends the news that on October 19 he will take his famous string quartet to Berlin and give the first performance of a work just finished by Max Reger—a string quartet in E flat.
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