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THE
COMPOSER MASSENET DEAD.
Author of Weil-Known Operas Suffered Long
from Cancer.
A dispatch from Paris dated August 13 reports
that Julien Emile Frederic Massenet, the well-
known musical composer, died in that city that day,
aged seventy years. He had been suffering for a
long time from cancer, but his death was sudden
and unexpected.
Massenet was one of the best known French
musical composers. He was born May 12, 1842,
at St. Etienne in the Department of the Loire.
Among his most noed works were "Le Cid,"
"Manona" and "Thais." He established his repu-
tation in 1872 wwith "Don Cesar de Bazan."
Among others of his notable works were a four-act
opera "Le Roi de Lahore" and the one-act "La
Navarraise." He also composed many oratorios
and cantatas. He was a Grand Officer of the
Legion of Honor and a member of the French
Institute.
MUSIC TRADE
REVIE V
COMPOSING_OPERAS PAYS.
Puccini's Annual Income Increases from $2,800
to $40,000 in Twenty Years.
OLIVER DITSON COMPANY,
Boston, Mass.
VOCA^.
A May Pole Dance (Louise Ayres Garnett)
$0.50
\ Summer Sea (Eugene H. Garnett-Louise Ayres Gar-
nett)
40
At ihy Shrine (Marie Rich)
60
Boyhood (Louise Ayres Garnett)
60
Elusive Love I George Arnold-Clarence C. Robinson). .50
Of the Rose and - ou (Benjamin J. Wolf-Carl Wilhelm
Kern)
40
Over the Hills of Home (Hayden Carruth-Louise Ayres
Garnett)
60
Since Laddie .vent Awa' (Lily Strickland)
50
The Voyage (Louise Ayres Garnett)
40
The Whispered Song (John Kendrick Bangs-Carrie
Bullard)
60
INSTRUMENTAL.
Dance of the Brownies (Susan Schmitt)
20
harp solo (John Cheshire)
50
Stillman's Work on "Concentration and Tech- Ecstacy,
Fountain, The, piano solo (Susan Schmitt)
30
nlc" Enthusiastically Received by Music Grasshopper's Hop, The, piano solo (Susan Schmitt).. .20
Laughing Water, for piano (Susan Schmittt)
30
Teachers at Their Recent Convention.
Our Gallant Officers, polka tor piano \H. Engelmann) .60
Skipj and Glide, piano solo (ousan Schmitt)
30
Spring Song (Mendelssohn) harp solo (john Cheshire) .50
60
An educational work of great value to both Threpe Preludes, for piano (A. Walter Kramer)
Voice of Spring, The piano solo (S'isan Schmitt)
30
teachers and pupils is "Concentration and Technic," Allah (Henry W. Longfellow-A. Walter Kramer)
$0.40
(Grace Hibbard-Alexis L. Browne)
40
by Louis Stillman. The work is published in four Butterfly
Kagle, The (Lord Alfred Tennyson-Carl Busch)
50
For
the
Glory
of
Old
Amherst
(Edmund
M.
BJake)
.
.
.
.50
volumes
and
comprises
exercises
constructed
mainly
'Teddy's for the People" by B. F. Nyse-
Dreamed and Wept A-Dreaming (A. Walter Kramer) .40
for developing the fingers, and which, if followed 1 May,
the Maiden (Sidney Lanier-john A. Carpenter) .50
wander, Dedicated to Chief Bull Moose.
Memory
(Arthur Symons-John H. Densmore)
50
faithfully, are well calculated to bring about the Of the Rose
and You (Benj. J. Wolf-Carl W. Kern).. .40
When Roosevelt was announced as candidate for
necessary result. The studies are graded as fol- Sweet and Low (Joseph Barnby)
50
I've Ever Loved(Heinrich Heine-J. M. Steinfeldt) .40
President on the Bull Moose ticket, Benj. F. Nyse-
lows: Volume I is devoted to five-finger and chord lnee
A is You ± Love (John A. O'Shea)
40
When Spring Comes Laughing (A. Dobson-G. Chapman) .60
wander went right overboard on the proposition
When the Misty Shadows Glide (Paul Verlaine-John
and hastened to write a new song entitled "Teddy's
A. Carpenter)
60
INSTRUMENTAL.
for the People," which is published by the National
Adagio in A minor (Geo. F. Handel. Arr. by Carl
Music Co., Chicago. Just to show that Mr. Nyse-
Busch for piano and violin)
50
vwander is calm and non-partisan we take the lib-
Annie Laurie. Transcription for harp solo (John
Cheshire)
50
erty of reprinting the second verse, as follows:
Bolero in A minor, Op. 9. For violin and piano (Emil
Wiegand)
60
Trusts control our forests, trusts control our coal,
Humoreske, for piano and violin (Anton Dvorak). .50
Frauds control our rivers, frauds control our gold;
Larghetto in D, for violin and piano with organ ad.
lib. (Geo. Frederic Handel)
75
Teddy's for the people—has always stood for right,
Minuet in G, for the organ (Ludwig von Beethoven) .50
Asking only justice in the people's fight.
Prelude and Fugue, in h, minor for the organ (John
Sebastian Bach)
50
It may be added that the song is not dedicated
SHAPIRO MUSIC PUBLISHING CO.,
to President Taft, reports to the contrary, notwith-
1412 Broadway, New York.
VOCAL.
standing.
Billy's Melody (L. Wolfe Gilbert-Joe Cooper)
$0.60
June Dreams (Edwin A. Perls)
50
,et's Make Love My Dearie (Charles F. Orr)
50
Ma Rosy Lee (Jessie G. M. Glick-Fred R. Horr)
.50
WITTMARK MUSIC CO. THE LATEST.
Somehow Sometime Some Place (Louis A. Hirsch) .•. ...60
Zuleika (Max S. Witt)
60
The Wittmark Music Co., of Manhattan, has
M. WITMARK & SONS,
been incorporated under the laws of New York,
144 West 37th Street, New York.
with capital stock of $15,000. Business: music
INSTRUMENT^.
Artist's
Dream,
valse poetique, tor the left hand only.
publications. Incorporators: H. S. Wittmark, V.
(Geo. L. Spaulding)
$0.50
Bunnies at Play, scherzo for piano(Marie Seuel-Holst) .30
C. Bogardus and A. L. Friedberg.
Children Wide Awake, four hands for piano (Karl
As the title of the new company now stands,
Bergmann)
50
Dainty, waltz for piano (F. Sabathil)
50
there is a striking similarity between it and the
Dew Drops, four hands for piano (Harry Admstrong) 1.00
Junebugs' Parade, march for piano (Marie Seuel-
name of a house that ranks among the leaders in
Holst)
5 0
the music publishing field, though there might, of
Little Chatterbox, four hands for piano (Geo. L.
course, have been a mistake made in recording or
Spaulding)
50
copying the name.
Nodding Tulip, four hands for piano (Geo. L. Trink-
exercises; Volume II, five-finger exercises chro-
aus)
jog
matically treated; Volume III, scale practice in all Sleep Darling, cradle song for piano (Walter Rolfe).. .30
MILLION COPY HIT
Sugar
Sailor
Who
Would
Roll
About,
piano
solo
(Elsie
forms; Volume IV, scale practice continued. The
G. Phelan)
30
That writing comic operas is« a paying propo-
sition is indicated in the case of Puccini, the com-
poser, who while in Paris recently showed a friend
a tabulated statement of his earnings from his
operas during the last twenty years.
It began
with $2,800, which increased until 1910, when he
earned $40,000. In 1911 his earnings were $60,000,
and the total for the whole period was nearly
$400,000.
OF VALUE TO TEACHER AND PUPIL.
NEW ROOSEVELT SONG READY.
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TELL TAYLOR, MUSIC PUBLISHER
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
great value of this work was recognized by music
teachers who attended the New York State Music
Teachers' Convention, held at Columbia University,
New York City, recently, when an address on "Coni
centration and Technic," delivered by Mr. Stillman,
was enthusiastically received and the composer was
compelled to repeat the lecture on the following day.
Mr. Stillman gave practical demonstrations of his
subject on both the blackboard and the piano.
'Concentration and Technic" is published by M.
Witmark & Sons.
WORKING 0N_NEW OPERA.
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YOUR
IVUJSIC
FROM
Publishers
Frederick S. Converse is said to be busy at
work on another opera, the libretto of which has
been provided by Percy MacKaye, and will there-
fore presumably be far above the average in merit.
The tentative title is "Beauty and the Beast"; yet
it is not to be a fairy opera, a la Humperdinck,
WALTER JACOBS
but a "fantastic" opera, bringing in Sinbad the
U7 Tremont St.
BOSTON. MASS
Sailor, the Forty Thieves, besides Beauty and a
Publisher of
'Kits 0f Spring." "Som* Day Wh«n Dreamt Com* Trmt." Stately Lady and a Peacock Lady. Children,
And Some Others World Famous
says the Boston Transcript, "are likely to enjoy it;
OLIVER DITSON COMPANY in fact, there has been high fun with it in the.
tests to which it has been subjected in both the
BOSTON
NEW YORK
Anticipate and Supply ETUT Requirement of Music Dealer* composer's and the poet's households; but it is
intended quite as much for 'grown-ups' who have
WHITE-SMITH MUSIC PUB. CO. kept
their liking for fantastic humor, sentiment
PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS ft ENGRAVERS OF MUSIC and incident, and for the music that shall be its
Main Offices: 6S-04 Stanhope St.. Boston
Brunch Houses: New York and ChicuM
voice."
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BOSTON
An Unusual
Announcement
We have decided to place
ERNEST R. BALL a n d GEORGE GRAFF'S
Latest and Greatest Song Success
Till the Sands of the
Desert Grow Cold
In Our Popular Catalog
Already it is going big, but at the new
price it will become
The Greatest Ballad Hit
of the Present Time
M. WITMARK & SONS
Witmark Build ng, 144-146 West 37th St., New York
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Paris
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