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FRANCES ALLITZEN, COMPOSER, DEAD.
"Prairie Pictures" Possesses Character That Has
Won Fame for Composer's Previous Songs.
Frances Allitzen, the composer, died on Wednes-
day of last week, at her residence in Bayswater,
London. She was born in that city and studied at
There has just been published a new short song
the Guildhall School of Music. Frances Allitzen
cycle for four voices by Liza Lehmann and en- made her debut in concert singing in Grosvenor
titled "Prairie Pictures." Authorities who have Hall in July, 1882. Among her most important
become so enthusiastic regarding the several song
works are "Sonata for Piano," 1881; "Suite de
cycles of peculiar excellence and character that
Ballet," "Overture Slavonique," 1884; more than
have made the name of Liza Lehmann famous, de-
100 songs and duets, including ''Song the Thanks-
clare that "Prairie Pictures'' will prove a worthy giving," "The Two Psalms," "Like as the Herrt,"
addition to the Lehmann catalog of such works.
''The Lord Ts My Light," "The Lute Player,"
It is character which particularly distinguishes
these "Prairie Pictures"—a strange character of
romance and pathos, as if the composer had in-
fused into her weird music the sigh of an expir-
ing race. There is a touch of Dvorak's New
World Symphony in that first page of the intro-
duction, with its sullen rhythms and ejaculations.
And the mysterious suggestions of tragedy are
present as soon as the voices begin. Once having
established the character of the work, the composer
never deviates from it. Yet at the same time there
is plenty of variety in it. The numbers follow each
other without a break, and the four voices are
introduced with skill and with a proper regard
for the contrasts between them. A short prefatory
note by the poet-composer says that these songs
do not purpose to be authentic melodies, although
a few native fragments have been introduced, but
were written as a result of travels through those
parts of America where the remains of a .poetic,
if primitive, race still linger. Chappell & Co. pub-
lish the music.
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"Prince Ivan's Song," settings of the poems of
Heine and Tennyson, "There's a Land," "A Dra-
matic Scene" and "Cleopatra."
MONUMENT TO MASSENET.
A subscription list for a monument to Massenet
has been started in Paris. The publishers, Heugel
et Cie, headed it with 10,000 francs. Massenet's
annual income during the last years of his life is
reported to have exceeded 700,000 francs. He be-
gan his musical career by playing the kettledrum in
a theater band.
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