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September 5 th, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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The Pkilharmonie Club will commence their it is not profitable to publish for so small a con- in the salaries of great singers. In 1831 Mme. Mali-
bran, then the first of living prima donnas, received
usual series of chamber music concerts at Chicker- nection.
ing Hall, Nov. 15. Miss Florence Copleston,
The deaths are announced—at Saint Regie, of 1,250 francs for each performance, about $250;
pianiste, will be the solo artist of the first concert. Chas. Joseph Brice, professor and composer of while now $500, $1,000 and even $2,000 a night
Maurice Dengremont has, we have been informed, music, aged 55; at Florence, aged 24, of Antonio are by no means uncommon. In Francis, however,
been engaged to play at one of the Philharmonic Terenzi, a promising writer on musical matters; at the salaries of singers do not appear to have been
so high, for Mme. Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Mali-
Club's concerts.
Trieste, aged 45, of Enrico Pirini, operatic agent; bran's
sister, received only 1,000 francs a night iu
The opera house in Holyoke, Mass., was crowded and, at Turin, of Luiga Lamiraux, concert- 1849, when she created the role of Fides in "Le
recently when the operatic exti*avaganza, " Medi- vocalist.
Proplu'te," and Mum Krauss, the leading soprano
cal Students," was presented by Our College Boys The Conservatoire at Vienna has 726 pupils in- at the Grand Opc'ra in Paris, receives 1,500 francs
Opera Company. The piece itself was pronounced cluding G75 Austrians and 51 foreigners. Only for each performance, which was also Faure's sal-
a success.
one is American.
ary.
Not one of three so-called national airs of the The latest in Patti rumors is that French capital Arnold Mendelssohn, the organist of the Evan-
United States is strictly of American composition. sends her to America, and that she was privately gelical Church at Bonn, is a grand nephew of the
"Yankee Doodle " is said to have been the work of married to Nicolini as a precaution.
Mendelssohn. Ho has founded for the
an English physician, and to date back to the French The Viennese papers announce that on August immortal
at Bonn a choral union that is highly
wars, when it was composed in derision of the vol- 11 Johann Strauss, the renowned composer of church
praised, and in July last executed in the church a
unteers of the colonies who assisted the British reg- dance music, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of vocal
of his own for an eight-voice
ulars. It is said by others to date back to the time the composition of his first waltz, which, it was chorus composition
soli, of which the critics are unani-
of Cromwell. It was certainly known in England alleged, was writen on August 11,1831. It would mous in with
approbation. Bonn is very proud of
before the revolution and was sung by the soldiers be ungracious to cast doubt upon this pretty little him, both their
because of his name and lineage, and be-
who garrisoned Boston. The music of the '' Star story, though the fact cannot be forgotten that cause of the
promise he gives of being musically
Spangled Banner " is also of English origin, and Johann Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, and
once bore the title of " Anacreon in Heaven." Rob- that, if the tale be true, he composed his first worthy of them both.
ert Treat Paine adapted to this air one of his pop- waltz when he was of the mature age of five. As Mr. Irving has sub-let the London Lyceum for
ular songs, "Adams and Liberty." It was not till his father, another Johann Strauss, was equally a part of October and November to Mr. Samuel
1811 that Francis Key composed the present words. celebrated composer of dance music, a slight sus- Hayes for an Italian opera season at cheap jjrices
" Hail Columbia " was written in 1798 by Judge picion cannot be suppressed that the waltz, if the —that is at the ordinary theatrical prices.
Hopkinson to what was then called the '' Presi- affair have any trutli at all, might have more claim
The Sydney papers speak in highly eulogistic
dent's March," an air composed by a German nam- to the paternity of the elder Strauss than to that of
terms of Herr Wilhelmj and his playing at the con-
ed Foyles, on the occasion of a visit from the Pres- the child of five.
certs he is giving there. Max Vogrich, the young
ident to one of the New York theatres.
Madame Christine Nilsson, who has been for Hungarian pianist ; Miss Kate Thayer, soprano,
Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan's latest work, "Pa- the last three weeks at Mont Dore, Auvergne, has and Miss Mario Conron also come in for a good
tience," which is called an " {esthetic opera," will been invited by King Oscar to take part in the word.
be produced at the Standard Theatre, beginning fetes attending the marriage of the Prince Royal of Among the members of tho Italian Opera com-
Sept. 19, by Mr. D'Olyly Carte's opera company. Sweden. Madame Trebelli has, of course, al-
St. Petersburg, for the coming season are
It is stated that rehearsals of the play are now in ready b«en engaged, and Madame Nilsson, as a pany,
Mdmes. Sembrich, Durand, Fursch-Madier, Tre-
progress and that the cast of the company is com- true patriot, has undertaken to give up a portion melli,
Signors Masini, Barbacini, Cotogni, Vasselli,
pleted. Among the artists engaged are Mr. Willi- of her holiday in order to sing at the wedding of and Lombardi.
There will be a performance
am Carleton, Mr. Ryly, Miss Carrie Burton, Miss her future sovereign.
every day excejit Sunday.
Eose Chappelle, and Miss Edmonston.all of whom
"Rosa di Perona," new opera by the widow
are well known in New York, besides Miss Roche A new opera, "Das Verwunschene Schloss,"
and Mr. Cadwallader, from the London Opera music by MilliJcker, libretto by Berla, was pro- Lionetti, has been produced at the Teatro Rossini,
duced with success at the Freidrich Wilhelmstrasse Naples.
Comique.
Theatre, Berlin, recently.
Tainberlik has beon made a Nubile e Hidalgo
The Emma Abbott Opera Company have gone to
The Liverpool Philharmonic Society , will next Basco, a distinction highly prized in Spain.
Denver City, Col., and will begin their season
season produce Lachner's "Requiem," and the Joseph Labitzky, tho dance-composer, rival of
Sept. 5.
setting of "Odysseus " by their conductor, Herr Lanner and Strauss the Elder, celebrated on the
Mme. Carreno, Mme. Donaldi, and Signor Fer- Max Bruch.
1st July his 80th birthday.
ranti will give a concert at the Oriental Hotel,
Coney Island, on Monday evening, Sept. 5. The Another musical newspaper. This one is to be Mdlle. Blum, formerly of the Grand Opera,
same artists have been engaged for the coming sea- issued from Liverpool, it is to be called the Brass Paris, and the Theatre do la Monnaie, Brussels,
son for a concert tour in the principal cities of the Band News, and, as its name implies, it will be having recently become Mdme Daydou, has retired
the "organ" of brass bands. The publishers from the stage.
United States.
state that there are upwards of two thousand pro-
Miss Lillie Berg, a young artiste of this city, re- fessional and amateur brass bands in England A new and permanent " Operetta-House ". is to
ceived the compliment of a testimonial concert at alone, or a total of forty or fifty thousand brass be erected in tho well-known Hotel Demuth, St.
Richfield Springs last week, in which she sang sev- band players.
Petersburg.
eral times. The entertainment is said to have been
Joseph Wieuiawslci has composed a new Violon-
The salary list at the Paris Opera has recently
highly successful in every respect.
been published. It is headed by M. Lassalle, who cello Concerto, of which report speaks well.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will sing in public for gets #24,000 a year; M. Maurel has $22,000; M.
" 11 Violino di Cremona," new opera by Duke
the first time since her return at the Worcester Villaret $12,000*; M. Sellier $9,000; Mdlle. Krauss
Litta, is announced for the autumn at
(Mass.) Festival Sept. 29. Mr. J. B. Pond will be $16,000; Mdlle. Richard $12,000, and Mdlle. Edith Giulio
r
her manager, and already states that applications Ploux $4,0(X). The director has no rent or gas to A arese.
for Miss Kellogg's professional services are so nu- pay, and he has a subvention of $160,000 a year. Marchetti has been nominated President of the
merous that they cannot be filled during the coming During the year 1880 no less than eleven operas Royal Academy of St. Cecilia, Rome.
season.
were performed, not one ef them being a novelty.
The Imperial Opera House, Vienna, has re-
Miss Emily Winant and Mr. G. W. Warren gave And yet the French claim that the Paris Opera opened.
a matinee musicale last week at the Lake House, retains its old position among the lyric theatres of
Lake George, for the benefit of the local Episcopal Europe.
Italian librettists seem almost as much played
church. The result was a substantial addition to
out as composers in Italy, if the book of the new
the church funds and an artistic success for the A Vienna paper contradicts the report that M. opera " Jella " beany criterion. A contralto gipsy
Rubinstein is about to renounce the role of a is the dens ex mavhind, and the plot is founded on
performers.
pianist. M. Rubinstein has no love for the life of
Mr. Adolph Fischer, violoncellist, will not return a virtuoso, and during his recent visit to London tho love and jealousies of two knights, a tenor and
to New York before December. He has engaged to ho lost no opportunity of showing the public so. a baritone, for a young girl, who is, of course, the
play in Pai'is at the Pasdeloups concerts and in So long as he can keep the little fortune ho has soprano. In accordance with the fitness of operatic
Leipsic at the Gewandhaus concerts in November earned there, it is highly probable M. Rubinstein things, the tenor carries off tho prize, having dis-
comfited the machinations of that desperate villain
will not play again in London. But no sooner the baritone. The opera was produced at the
ABROAD.
does tho ruling passion display itself, and the for- Communal Theatre at Placentia, and it had a fair
Stephens and Solomon, of "Billee Taylor" fame, tune disappears or is forgotten, but M. Rubinstein
will open the season at the London Olympic will assuredly be found once more in that city. iccess.
Theatre, on the 29th inst., with their new comic At present, according to the Viennese paper in
The Russian composer, G. A. Lischin, has written
opera, "Claude Duval, or Love and Liberty," under question, Rubinstein is reported to be writing a an opera, "The Gipsy." The libretto is founded
the direction of Mr. Michael Gunn, Mr. D'Oyly new ballet and a new symphony, or, as he once on Puschkin's poem bearing the same title.
Carte's partner in the first infliction of "P c."" faithfully expressed himself, "spoiling clean
From Berlin comes the news that Suppo is work-
A youth, bearing the somewhat suspicious name music paper."
ing at a new operetta " The Darling," with which
of Carl Wondra, and said to be a thirteen-year-old
At a meeting of Bards at Bangor, Wales, Aug. the Carl Theatre of Vienna will be favored next
prodigy from the conservatoire at Vienna, is about 19th,
it was unanimouslv resolved that the winter; also Millocker, of Vienna, is engaged on a
to come forward as a boy violinist. The race of National
of 1882 should be held at new operetta, " Tho Maid of Belleville," words by
prodigies seems, however, to be deteriorating, Denbigh. Eisteddfod
This
year
it
will be held at Merthyr Zell and Genee.
and at any rate Carl Wondra is about ten vears too Tydfil,
The following intelligence ivppeais in the Allge-
old.
Miss Thursbv sang at Bergen a short time since, meine Dcufwhe Musik-Zeitung: Julius Liebig,
It is said of English musical people that they
conductor of Ems, has been presented
readily receive lives of German composers while in aid of the Ole Bull Memorial Fund. She will orchestral
by His Majesty the Emperor, with a breast pin
they are apathetic in regard to the lives of distin- remain some time in the North and sing at Christi- richly
set with diamonds. Herr Angelo Neumann
guished English composers. The Spectator says ania and Stockholm. Over fifty thousand people has secured
the sole right of representing the
that the cause of this opinion is found in the fact went to hear her at Copenhagen.
that biographies of foreign musicians deal with the The Paris Figaro publishes some statistics which " Nibelungen-ringes " in Breslau and Dresden.
best composers, and that as musical people are not are interesting because they throw some light on
Sign or Arditi has gone to Milan, in order to
readers (their leisure being engaged in music itself) the much discussed subject of the recent increase place his son in the Conservatory of that city.