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Issue: 1881 Vol. 5 N. 4

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September 20th, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
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KISS &RISW0LD.
exclaimed with difficulty, ' Ah, sir! sir! I am a the beginning of 1881 to the end of 1882), with
Hungarian—poor devil—cannot speak French—a the Bayreiilher Blatter, containing the lucubra- T T 7 I T H 0 U T the slighest fuss or preliminary
little Italian. Pardon my ecstasy. Ah! I under- tions of Herren Volzogen and Rubinstein (not VV advertisement, the young American prima
stand your cannon. Yes, yes—the great battle— Anton,) which, directly instigated by the Prophet donna, Miss Griswold, made her second debut at
dogs of Germans.' Then, striking his breast himself, can hardly fail to possess general interest, the Paris Grand Opera on Friday night, the 19th
heavily: ' In my heart—I bear you—Ah! French- whether inside or outside the temple, for firm instant (August). M. Vaucorbeil certainly cannot
man—revolutionary—to know how to make the believers as for tottering sceptics, and to act as an be accused of " s t a r r i n g " this young lady, for in-
music of revolutions !' I cannot attempt to paint additional incentive.
deed even the opera bills merely alluded to the
the terrible exaltation of this man; his tears, the
rentree of the tenor, M. Bosquin. The music of
grindings of his teeth! I t Mas almost alarming ERNST EBERHARD'S EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE. Marguerite, especially in the garden scene, is
and quite sublime." On returning to Vienna after
REPRESENTATIVE of the MUSICAL CRITIC rather low for the voice of the American artist,
his great success, Berlioz was waited upon by the
AND TRADE REVIEW called upon Professor but in the church scene she appeared to better ad-
amateur who had suggested the march. The noise Ernst Eberhard, director of the Grand Conserva- vantage, and in the final scene in the prison she
of its frantic reception had reached the capital, tory of Music in New York city, very soon after his carried all before her. Nevertheless, Maryueriteia
and our amateur, frightened rather than pleased, recent return from Europe, to obtain some account deemed by the Parisians hardly as well suited to
said, " I run to beg you not to say a word about of the Professor's trip, and received from him the Miss Griswoid as Ophelia, in which she made her
me on this matter. If it were known in Vienna following statement of his experiences :—
first appearance on the French stage. M. Vaucor-
that I had contributed in any way to the composi-
" I arrived," said Mr. Eberhard, " per steamer beil, the manager of the Paris Grand Opera, has
tion of the march I should be seriously compro- Lessing, in Hamburg, and the inhabitants of that just concluded an engagement with another Ameri-
mised and it might do me barm."
city were so excited over my arrival that they burnt can, who, under the name of Mdlle. Nordica, sang
Berlioz next visited Prague, where he gave six their conservatory of music the same night, before last winter at St. Petersburg.—Figaro, London.
concerts, and enjoyed the satisfaction of present- I had an opportunity of seeing it.
In consequence of the success made by the
ing his "Romeo et Juliette" to Liszt, by whom
From Hamburg I went to Berlin, and while there, American prima donna, Miss Griswold, at the
that work had never before been heard. Again became acquainted with Xaver Scharwenka, the Paris opera house, the manager, M. Vaucorbeil,
success rewarded his efforts. The public were celebrated pianist and composer, and his brother has doubled her salary. On Sept. 2nd, the per-
delighted, and the virtuosi arranged a supper at Phillip. Xaver Scharwenka is the handsomest formance at the Opt'ra was transmitted by tele-
which Liszt in their name presented the composer pianist I have ever seen; he is a young man, about phone to the Electric Exhibition in the Palais de
with a silver cup. Hereby hangs a tale which 30 years of age, and, having married a rich wife, l'lndustrie, ami was heard distinctly by those who
Berlioz may be allowed to tell:
lives in excellent style in Berlin ; he has a private jammed their ears against the receivers at the
"Liszt was unanimously chosen to make the chapel, or concert room with a raised platform, on latter-named building.
presentation speech instead of the chairman, who which are an organ, a grand piano, music racks,
had not sufficient acquaintance with the French and all the appurtenances for concert giving. His
GARFIELD'S PIANIST.
language. At the first toast he made me, in the brother, Phillip, struck me as being the most original
name of the assembly, an address at least a quar- of the two, and has written many polonaises and
ANY of the American critics have complained
ter of an hour long, with a warmth of spirit, an little things which are very popular here and in
that the English newspapers announced Mas-
abundance of ideas and a choice of expressions Europe.
ter Benham, a prodigy pianist who is now appear-
which excited the envy of the orators present, and
While in Berlin I visited Theodor Ivullak's Aca- ing at the Covent Garden promenade concerts, as
by which I was profoundly touched. Unhappily, demy, der Tonkunst, where I was very cordially " Pianist to the President of the United States."
if he spoke well he also drank well, the treacherous received, and during my visit Kullak played for I have twice, without mentioning any names, stated
cup inaugurated by the convives held such floods me for an hour most delightfully ; he has about that the request was made to the Figaro by letter
of champagne that all Liszt's eloquence made ship- 1,000 pupils at the Academy and I noticed that from a source whence error could hardly be antici-
wreck in it. Belloni and I were still in the streets the scholars had more reverence for, and rendered pated, and I have twice invited my correspondent
of Prague at two o'clock in the' morning persuad- a more cheerful obedience to their teachers, than to give an explanation. As he has refrained from
ing him to wait for daylight before exchanging with us. Here we sometimes have difficulties with doing so, I think this is a case in which the word
shots, at two paces, with a Bohemian who had the pupila or their parents on account of the selec- "Private" written at the top of a communication
drunk better than himself. When day came we tion of music we give for them to practice, prin- on a matter of business should not be allowed to
were not without anxiety about Liszt, whose con- cipally their exercises and studies ; but there they shield its writer from the consequences of his own
cert was to take place at noon. At half-past eleven take what is given them without a murmur.
act. I therefore publish the letter as it stands, and
he was still sleeping ; at last some one awoke him,
I saw Kullak teaching one day. He sat at the
he jumped into a cab, reached the hall, was re- piano with one of the pupils, having a piece of wash my hands of the affair:—
[Private]
ceived with three rounds of applause, and played as, music before them, while the rest of the scholars
Sir,—I have been requested to forward you
I believe, he had never played in his life before." paid close attention seated at some distance with the "Dear
enclosed announcement of my nephew's approach-
the score in their hands, noting carefully the re- ing visit to England.
" I should feel very much obliged if you would
marks of the Professor on the piece being perform-
WAGNER'S "PARSIFAL."
kindly notify the fact in your valuable paper.
ed."
T1ICHAKD WAGNER has not yet made up his "Of course," said Professor Eberhard, " t h i s
" I may add that Master A. P. Benham is pianist
_L\ mind about the cast of "Parsifal," which system is only practicable with advanced scholars; to his Excellency the President of the United States
is to be produced a twelvemonth hence at Bay-
of America. - I am, Sir, jour obedient servant,
it seems to work very well with them."
J. EKLE-BENHAM.
reuth. That Mdme. Patti will consent to embody but "During
my
stay
in
Berlin,"
he
continued,
"
I
" 6 King's Bench Walk, Temple, July 14, 1881."
the nondescript personage of Kundry, the temp- heard Herr Nach'baur, the celebrated tenor, at
—Figaro, London.
tress, is out of all likelihood. On the other hand
Garden, where Rudolph Bial, now in New
it is equally unsuited to Mdme. Materna, the Kroll's
conductor. Nachbaur has a
superb Jirilunhilde of the " Walkiire " and " G o t York, was formerly
CARL ROSA.
voice, reminding me of Wachtel in his
terdammerung." To find a characteristically dra- magnificent
days, and the concert in other respects was very
N the new half-yearly part of Grove's Dictionary,
matic impersonator of Kundry, indeed, will be the best
This concert garden, as well as the garden
an all too brief biography is given of Mr. Carl
poet-musician's chief difficulty.
For Parsifal enjoyable.
the Rosenthal in Leipsic, and the Uhlenhorst in Rosa. In it the facts are faithfully recorded that
himself, moreover, the "inspired fool" and at
Hamburg,
were
very
well
patronized,
the
pro-
destined guardian of the " Graal," it will not be grammes in all three places being generally of a Mr. Rosa (or,* as he was at first called by his real
name, Herr Carl Rose) was born at Hamburg,
easy to meet with a wholly capable representative;
character than that of our New York concert March 22, 1843, was educated as a violin-player,
while King Amfurtas, with his incurable spear- lighter
halls,
but
exceedingly
well
performed
by
orchestras
entered the Leipsic Conservatoire in 1859, and
inflicted wound and matutinal baths, must be a numbering about forty-two pieces each
made his debut in England at the Crystal Palace
bore under any conditions. The remaining parts,
I was in Germany when the musical season was concert of March 10, 18G0. I t may be interesting
including Gurnemanz, the venerable watchman of
the Gaal and its protecting knights, K/i/tgsor the closed, but I met many professional people in to state that the piece selected was the adagio from
magician, temporary possessor of the holy spear Leipsic, and became acquainted with the first two Spohr's eleventh violin concerto, and Chorley'a
and enemy to King Amfortas its whilom guardian, parts of Liszt's celebrated Piano School, which is a criticism now lying before me states: " H e r r
great work. I understand that Liszt has had some Rose's violin-playing is adroit, technically well
differences with Schuberth & Co. in regard to the
and showing propriety rather than depth
Wagner, moreover, has a way of surmounting production of this work ; it is said that Liszt in his finished,
of feeling; but he has no faults to unlearn, and
obstacles formidable enough to perplex if not old age has become very querulous and bard to sat- has
the modesty of style which bespeaks the real
paralyze ordinary folk. Scenery of the most ela- isfy.
artist."
How Mr. Rose went during the same year
borate description, by the Brothers Bruckner, is
while visiting Scharwenka in Ber- to the United States on a concert tour with
in preparation at Coburg (not at Munich, as re- lin, I understood,
he had offered Mr. Ernst Perabo, of Bos- "Colonel" Bateman, how he married in 1867,
ported), that portion which is finished already ton, that
a position as professor in the new conservator- started the successful American opera tour, re-
undergoing the process of "setting u p " in the ium which
to Europe, and started his famous English
Festival Playhouse, under the superintendence of accepted." he is organizing and that Perabo had turned
operatic enterprise in 1875, everybody knows.
Herr Brandt, who so worthily distinguished him-
self five years ago, when the Tetralogy Avas pre- " M y object," said Mr. Eberhard, in conclusion,
sented in its entirety for the delight and astonish- "in visiting Europe was partly to take a vacation,
Mr. R. Grant White writes from New York-
ment of such a gathering of notable* as probably partly to see my parents, whom I kad not seen for 27 " Will you kindly permit me to say that a para-
had never before assembled within the precincts of years, and to visit the different music schools and graph in the Atheaceum, setting forth the impossi-
compare their respective merits, and also to arrange bility that I have been engaged for more than 50
one small city.
for the exchange of some of my compositions with
Applications for admission to the first and certain publishing houses, which last I succeeded years in collecting materials for the history of
second performances are still entertained by the in doing very satisfactorily. I returned to find music in America, was read by me with an amaze-
Committee at Bayreuth, the members of the Wag- things already under rapid headway at my conser- ment which, although my interest in music began
ner Association alone being eligible. On the other vatory, and with prospects of an excellent fall and in my childhood, would be shared by my kinsfolk,
and, most of all, by my mother. The truth is that
hand, it is easy to become a member by paying winter season."
I had no thought of writing the sketch you refer to
forty-five marks, back subscriptions for the years
1878-80 (inclusive), and fifteen marks annually,
The trustees of the Leiderkranz Society filed until very recently. I t will, indeed, cover a period
for 1881-84 (inclusive)—one hundred and five plans, Sept. 12th, of their new club house in East of somewhat more than 50 years; but because Mr.
markB in all. This entitles the holders to witness Fifty-eighth street, the cost of which is placed at John Henry Green's ' History of England' cov«rs
one of the first two performances, as well as the $100,000. The structure will be three stories high, a period of more than a thousand years, it is hardly
grand rehearsal, or a subsequent performance, at with a basement, and the walls will be of brick true that he was engaged for more than a thousand
yeare in collecting materials for it."
choice. They will also be supplied, gratis (from and itone, with blue stone copings.
A
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September 2oih, 1881.
THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
KB. GEO. W. COLBY'S VENTURES.
R. ADOLPHE FISCHER, the violoncellist,
"writes to Geo. W. Colby, his sole manager,
M
that he will return to America for his farewell sea-
son the latter part of November, after playing at
Paris, Liepzig, Cologne, Frankfort, &c. Max
Bruch, Massenet, Godard, Saint-Saens, Widor and
others have written new morceaux for him, which
he will play this winter.
Miss Carrie E. Mason, soprano, of Strong Place
Church, Brooklyn, and pupil of Sig. Errani, of
New York city, will make her debut in New York,
at her concert, at Chickering Hall, Thursday even-
ing, Nov. 3rd. Mr. Colby is also her manager.
Mrs. E. Aline Osgood, whose professional affairs
are directed by Mr. Colby, will sail for America by
the Servia, Oct. 22nd, and make her first appear-
ance in Boston, Nov. 9. She is engaged by the
Handel and Haydn Society of Boston for Christmas
and Good Friday, also by Cincinnati Musical
Festival Association, for Dec. 28, and for a large
number of concerts.
The Arbuckle & Colby Concert Company, are
rapidly filling their time for the coming season.
THE WORCESTEK FESTIVAL.
rj^HE tenth annual festival of the Worcester
JL County (Mass.) Musical Association will occur
Sept. 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30. There will be an in-
creased number of concerts—nine in all—and
among the important works to be performed are
Verdi's "Requiem," "The Creation," "Elijah,"
"Zadock the Priest," and Mendelssohn's unfinish-
ed opera, "Loreley." Among the solo vocalists
engaged are Clara Louise Kellogg, Annie Louise
Cary, Tom Karl, M. W. Whitney, Mrs. Emma R.
Dexter, Miss Hattie Louise Simms, Miss Alice
Ward, Miss Grace Hiltz Gleason (of Chicago),
Miss Emily Winant, Mrs. H. F. Knowles, Franz
Remmertz, and Charles R. Adams. The Schubert
Concert Company of Boston (eighteen male voices)
is also engaged. Mme. Teresa Liebe, violinist, and
her brother, Mr. Theodore Liebe, a very fine vio-
loncello soloist, are likewise to appear. Mr. Fred-
erick Archer, the celebrated English organist, is to
give an organ lecture-concert. Mr. Carl Zerrahn
-will be the conductor of the festival.
Mr. Ernest Perabo, of Boston, who was reported
some time since as having come to New York with
the intention of taking up his residence here, has,
•we understand, left New York for Berlin, presuma-
bly to accept the position offered him by Xaver
Scharwenka, at his conservatory in that city.
Mr. Edward Heimendahl has organized a string
qnartette, and will give chamber concerts in
Chicago, next winter. The quartette will bear the
name of the "Euterpe Quartette, and be compos-
ed of Messrs. Heimendahl, A. Rosenbecker, Gus-
tave Pringnitz and O. Winkler, who is a violoncel-
list of reputation. He formerly lived in Vienna,
and is coming to Chicago to make it his home.
New York opera goers will be pleased to learn
that Campanini is likely to be heard here again in
Opera, during the coming winter. At last accounts
from Europe Mr. Mapleson had visited him at
Parma, Italy, to effect an engagement with him,
and the fact that Campanini has telegraphed to
this city to secure the apartments he occupied last
year, indicates thai Mr. Mapleson's negotiations
•with him were successful.
Mr. Emil French, who left New York for Europe
some five years ago in order to continue his musical
studies under the skilled masters of the Old World,
will appear in concert here during the forthcoming
season.
There is a report that Mile. Valleria is to succeed
Mme. Fursch-Madier at the Theatre de la Monnaie,
Brussels.
Prevost, the new tenor of the Chateau d'Eau,
ABROAD.
has signed a three years' engagement for
Hoffmann has recently completed his new opera, Paris,
America with Mr. Mapleson.
"William of Orange."
concerning Franz Liszt are just now
The Neue Zeitschriflfvr Musik, has the following Anecdotes
order of the day in Continental journals. The
intelligence:—The well-known pianist and compos- the
lately related in the Paris Figaro, may
er Xaver Scharwenka, intends opening a new Con- following,
be reproduced in these columns as exhibiting the
servatorium in Berlin, on October 1st. Aloys Hen- maestro
one of his most amiable moods. Franz
nes, Josef Koteck, Philipp Riifer, M. D. Jahns, Al- Liszt, so in
story runs, found himself one evening,
bert Becker, O. Lessmann, Dr. Laughaus, etc., are on which the
he had arranged for a concert in a small
already secured as professors. Weber's "Oberon," Bavarian town,
the presence of an audience of
under the direction of Dr. Wiillner, will be pro- only seventeen in
Instead of causing the
duced for the first time, in October, at the Ham- money they had persons.
paid to be returned to them, the
burg Town Theatre, where, as is well known, near- jovial virtuoso forthwith
invited the small assembly
ly all the German directors will be assembled.
to a supper at his hotel. "But we have come
Tschaikowsky is now writing a new opera called here for the purpose of hearing music." "Very
Well," was the reply, " and so you shall—after, we
" Mazeppa."
have supped." The little party declared them-
La Qazzetta Musicale tells us that the Russian selves ready to go. They found a good table
composer Tcha'ikowsky has just published a new spread for them, and after having regaled them-
work, consisting of a very elegant and expressive selves with the good cheer of their host, the latter
series of pianoforte pieces, entitled Etude, Chan- redeemed his further promise by playing, iu highly
son triste, Marche funebre, Deux Mazurkas, Chant animated spirits, until an early hour of the
sans paroles, Au village. Deux Vals, Danse Russe, morning.
Scherzo, and Reverie interrompue. These pieces
are printed by Fiirstner of Berlin, who has arrang- A correspondent from Copenhagen writes: "Mau-
ed to publish all the works of Tchaikowsky.
rice Strakosch's star, Miss Emma Thursby, made a
' hit' in this capital. She has given ten
Count Ebethard of Wurtemburg, is writing the brilliant
concerts, several of which were honored by th«
music of an operetta entitled "Hilda."
presence of the King of Denmark, at whose special
The Meyerbeer Exhibition of 4,500 marks for an desire the gifted lady was presented to him, as was
orchestral overture, a dramatic cantata, and an also Herr Robert Fischhof, the eminent pianist
eight-part vocal fugue, has been carried off this from Vienna. From Copenhagen Miss Thursby
year by Engelbert Humperdink, of Xanten on the went to Bergen, in Norway, where she had organ-
Rhine, who had already won the Mendelssohn and ized, with the aid of Herr Maurice Strakosch, a
Mozart Foundation prizes at Berlin and Frankfort- concert, the proceeds of which are to go to the fund
on-the-Maine.
now collecting for a monument in commemoration
of Ole Bull, ' the Norwegian Paganini' (as he was
M. Alphonse Leduc, music publisher, has been called by self and family)".—Musical World, Lon-
appointed knight of the Legion of Honor, for his don.
prizes gained at the Exhibitions of Sidney and
Melbourne.
Baron Kiister has resigned his post as conductor
the Imperial Russian Theatre ; his successor is
Victor Coche, a celebrated flutist, and for a long of
waid to be Major-General Wassilkowsky. Dvorak's
time professor of the Paris Comservatoire, died new
comic opera, "Der Dickschiidel," has been
recently in that city at the age of 74 years.
accepted for performance at the Vienna Ring-
The opera by Balfe, entitled "Pittore e Duca," theatre.
which it is said was first sung at Trieste, in 1856,
is to be revived in an English version under the The opera, "Cleopatra," by W. Freudenberg,
title of "The Painter of Antwerp." The adapta- director of the Weisbaden Conservatorium, the
tion lias been entrusted to a Mr. Barrett, of Lon- libretto of which has E. Pasque for the author, is
don, who is said to be a musician and critic of to be the first novelty of the coming season at the
ability. It is reported that this opera has been Madgeburg Town Theatre.
purchased by Messrs. Cramer, of London, and
Seminary director, Dr. Putting, of Erfurt,
will be produced under the direction of Mr. H. B. has The
received
Order of the Red Eagle ; the
Farnie at a (West-end) London theatre in order that music director, the
of the First Madgeburg In-
a run may be secured in case of success, and it will fantry Regiment, Bohne,
the princely Hohenzollern gold
be played simultaneously in America.
medal of honor ; and the school teacher and chor-
Madame Patti has returned to her Welsh castle, ister. Schroder, of Achelriede, in the Osnabriick
and the usual banners and decorations were again district, has had bestowed on him the general mark
trotted out. Report, however, whispers that Mad- of distinction.
ame Patti is becoming rather wearied of her Welsh The great Singing Contest in Weisbaden, (men-
possession, and that when she returns from Amer- societies from all parts of Germany) came to an
ica Craig-y-Nos may not improbably be offered for end on Tuesday., Aug. 30th, after three days' dur-
sale.
ation. The first prize, a large gold medal (gift of
There must be no shedding of false sentiment the Emperor of Germany) and 1,800 marks, was
over the demolition of the house in High Holborn won by the Singing Society of Hanover ; the second
in which temporarily sojourned the noble musician, prize, a gold medal and 1,500 marks, was taken by
Franz Joseph Haydn. It seems certain that he the Singing Society of Graz (Austria).
wrote his six symphonies here for the Hanover
The public performances of " Parsifal " at Bay-
square concerts, and he may have noted down his reuth next summer are fixed for the following
first ideas of the "Creation " in his Holborn lodg- dates :—July 30th ; August 6th, 13th, 20th, and
ings; but it was at his villain the suburbs of Vienna 27th (Sundays); 1st, 8th, 22nd, and 29th (Tu«a-
that he completed his immortal work.—Daily Tele- days); 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th (Fridays). The
graph, London.
grand rehearsal takes place on Monday, the 24th
Professor Maria von Booklet, a well-known July ; Wednesday, the 26th, and Friday, the 28th,
musician and teacher of the pianoforte at Vienna, aro " Patrons' Days."
died in that city at the age of eighty. He was a
Every year M. Ambroise Thomas goes to Brit-
pupil of Beethoven.
tany for necessary rest after his laborious exami-
at the Paris Conservatoire. He returned
B. Saldoni's Diccionario biografico-bibliogrqfico nations
de
to Paris early in September to superintend the first
E/emerides de Musicos espanoles, commenced thir-
teen years ago, is now completed in four thick vol- rehearsals of " Frangoise de Rimini," the score of
umes, containing valuable information relating to which, sent to M. Vaucorbeil, is now in the hands
of the chief copyist at the Opera.
the historical development of music in Spain.
An Autograph Album of the German Empire has Anton Rubinstein is writing another new move-
been published at Berlin, several well known com- ment for his " Ocean-Symphony."
posers contributing each a few bars of music.
"Cleopatra," four-act opera by W. Freuden-
Almeiras, conductor of Maurice Grau's buffo-op- berg, director of the Conservatory, Wiesbaden,
era company, has succumbed to yellow fever at will inaugurate the season at the Stadttheater,
Madgeburg, and is in active rehearsal;
Rio Janeiro.
Bettesini is at Naples, armed with double-bass The Theatro Royal in Hesse-Cassel (where Spohr
was once conductor) has re-opened for the autumn
and new opera.
Mme. Caroline Salla, the leading star at the season with " Aida."
Italian Opera, St. Petersburg, is taking a holiday
Dr. Louis Mandel, an admitted authority on
at Bagneres-de-Luchon. She is engaged for the affections of the vocal organs, died recently in
Paris. He was born at Pesth, in 1812.
autumn season at the Scala, Milan.
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