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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,
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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
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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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