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THE MUSICAL CRITIC AND TRADE REVIEW.
MUSICAL
NOTES.
ABROAD.
WEITZMANN.—Berlin papers announce the death, at the age of seventy-
two, of the well-known musical theorist, Karl Friedrich Weitzmann. A
pupil of Henning and Bernhard Klein, during his early life he was engagsd
in the practical exercises of his art for some years in the service of the late
Emperor Nicholas. Since 1848 he devoted himself almost entirely to the
investigation and exposition of< the theory of musical composition, and in
these studies attained considerable repute. Weitzmann wrote several works
dealing with this and kindred subjects.
TRAINING SCHOOL.—A training school for chorus singers, under Herr
Faistenberger, has been established in connection with the Imperial Opera
house, Vienna.
SYMPHONY.—Anton Eubinstein has written a new symphony,
entitled
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"Russia."
SUCCESSOR.—Herr Reiss, of Cassel, succeeds Herr Jahn on the 1st Janu-
ary, as Capellme inter at Wiesbaden.
MUNICH.—The concerts of the Musical Academy, Munich, were inaugu-
rated by a performance of Beethoven's " Missa Solemnis."
TOURNEE.—Anton Rubinstein will shortly undertake a concert tour in
Switzerland.
RESIGNED.—Mr. Charles Halle and Mr. Walter Macfarren have resigned
their seats in the direction of the London Philharmonic Society, the latter
also resigning the hon. treasurership.
BEKLIOZ.—Hector Berlioz's "Damnation de Faust" was produced at
Frankfort-on-the-Maine on the 8th of Nov., by the members of Riihl's Vocal
Association, for the first time in Germany. The performance was under the
direction of Herr Kniese, who had written the German version of the text,
and, considering the difficulties attending it, accomplished his task in a satis-
factory manner. The audience were really interested only in certain passages
in the choruses, the part of Mephislopheles, and some instrumental pieces.
GEBNSHEIM.—F. Gernsheim, the well-known professor at Berlin, has
composed a violin concerto, of which the Leipsic Allgemeine Mi'sik-Zeitung
speaks in terms of unqualified praise. It was first performed at Hamburgh,
with great success, by M. Sauret.
COLOGNE.—The Association for Church Music, at Cologne, under the
direction of Herr Mertke, intend giving this winter three Subscription con-
certs, at which the following works will be performed: " Missa Solemnis,"
Cherubim; " Stabat Mater," Theodor Gouvy; Music to " T h e Ruins of
Athens," Beethoven; Music to •' Turandot," Vincenz Lachner; and " Boni-
facius," an oratorio, book by Liua Schneider, music by F. W. G. Nicolai.
The last two works will be executed under the direction of their respective
composers.
DEATH LIST.—The deaths are announced—at Paris of Xavier Aubreyet, a
musical critic, at Turin of Achile Strada, musical publisher.
LISZT BIOGKAPHY.—Herr Ramann has published at Leipsic the first
volume of a Biography of Liszt. It is of 570 pages, and is carried down to
the year 1840.
January 5th, 1881.
SCOVEL.—Mr. Edward Scovel's voice is mentioned as having been
thoronghly cultivated during his residence abroad. He has just appeared
at the Argentino Theatre at Rome in " L a Sonnambula"—with what success is
not yet known here.
SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS.—The Cur-Comitte at Baden-Baden intends to
give eight Subscription Concerts during the winter months, in which several
distinguished foreign artists, vocal and instrumental, will appear. The
great Symphonies of the acknowledged "classical" masters will be per-
formed, together with modern compositions of merit.
NEW OPERA.—A comic opera," Abelardo ed Eloiisa," by Dominiceti, is to
be produced during the Carnival at the Teatro dal Verme, Milan.
PRAGUE.—A concert is projected in aid of the pension fund for professors
of the Conservatory of Music,. Prague. The leading feature of the pro-
gramme will be the " H a r o l d " of Berlioz.
HOLMES.—Mr. Henry Holmes, one of our leading English violinists and
a favorite pupil of Spohr, is about to settle in the United States.—London
Musical World.
THURSBY.—Miss .Emma Thursby drew a crowded house in Vienna, and
had a great success.
CCEDES.—The French musician, Coedes, composer of several operettas,
of which the "Belle Bourbonnaise," at the FoliesDramatiques, and " Girou-
ette," at the Fantaisies Parisiennes, had a certain success, has become
insane, and has been removed to Dr. Blanche's private asylum, Paris. His
mental derangement was remarked during a rehearsal of the "Review," in
preparation at the Nouveautes Theatre, of which he composed the music.
The form assumed by his madness is a belief that he had come into posses-
sion of immense wealth, and a mania that he is an object of persecution.
LEEDS FESTIVAL.—At the Leeds Musical Festival the total receipts were
£9,300, against £7,896 in 1877; the expenses £6,928, against £7,100, and the
profits £2,331, against £800. The total attendance was 14,854, an increase
of 1,454 over the previous festival. The committee recommend that £2,000
be divided among the four Leeds medical charities. In a review of their
labors the committee state that in selecting Mr. Arthur Sullivan to direct the
festival, they had in view not only his marked abilities as a conductor and
composer, but the giving a distinctly English character to the festival.
Attention was also directed to the new works produced for the first time,
written by English composers.
NIEBELUNGEN. —Herr Wagner is to have the happiness of seeing his
" Niebelungen " put upon the stage of the Royal Opera in Berlin. Baron
Hiilsen, the manager of the royal theatres, has always objected to mounting
Wagner's operas, as the work co'sts so much; but the Emperor himself has
overruled the Baron.
* LUCCA.—Pauline Lucca is to appear at Vienna, this month, as Elsa,
" Lohengrin," a new role.
SULLIVAN.—Mr. Sullivan's "Martyr of Antioch," was performed at the
Crystal Palace, London, on Saturday, Dec. 11, for the first time since its
production at Leeds. The audience was a large one, but the ' ' sacred
drama " was received with almost chilling coldness.
ST. PETERSBURG.—Miss Kellogg has appeared at St. Petersburg in
" L a Traviata " and " II Trovatore," and Madame Seinbrich in " Lucia."
MOZART PROGRAMME.—A Mozart programme was offered at the Gewand-
DECORATED.—The Emperor Wilhelm has conferred the Order of the haus concert at Leipsic, Dec. 2.
Crown on Richard Pohl, musical critic and editor of the Bade-Blatt, Baden.
BIZET.—At the Chatelet concert a posthumous "Funeral March" by
SARASATE.—Sarasate was the solo violinist at the first of the Private Con- Bizet was performed for the first time.
certs, Bremen. He performed Max Bruch's new "Scotch Fantasia" and
RUBINSTEIN.—Rubinstein's " Nero " has been very successfnl at Berlin.
Spanish Dances with pianoforte accompaniment. He was rapturously ap-
VERDI.—Verdi has left Buseto for Genoa to finish his new opera in an-
plauded.
other climate.
KRETSCHMER.—A new opera, " Heinrich der Lowe," book and music by
LEIPSIC.—A Gluck cycle was given at Leipsic last month.
Herr Edmund Kretschmer, composer of " D i e Folkungar," has been very
REBER.—M. Reber, of the Paris Conservatoire, and an old opera com-
successfully produced at the Theatre Royal, Dresden. Herr Kretschmer, the poser, died in December.
principal singers, and the conductor—Herr Schuch—were called on after the
PATTI.—Madame Patti will go to Monte Carlo from Jan. 15 to March 1.
fall of the curtain.
WEHNER.—Arnold Wehner, at one time Royal Hanoverian Capellmeister,
THURSBY.—At her second concert, in the Singacademie, Berlin, Miss died recently at Leipsic. He was formerly Musical Director to the Univer-
Emma Thursby fully confirmed the favorable impression she made at her sity of Gottingen, a post he resigned when appointed head of the Cathedral
debut there. She sang Rossini's " Una voce poco fa," Mozart's " Phillis an Choir, then recently formed in Hanover. He afterwards lived as a private
das Clavier," the final rondo from " L a Sonnambula," and, as an extra, teacher in the South of Germany, and fixed his permanent residence in this
Proch's "Variations," in all of which she was greatly applauded. Herr The- town about five years before his death.
odor Wachtel gave the " Bildniss-Arie," from " D i e Zauberflote," and two
TIMANOFF. —After visiting Odessa, Kieff, Charkow, and other towns in
songs. The instrumentalists were Herr Gustav Hollander and Herr Leon
the south of Russia, Mdlle Vera Timanoff was, at the end of December, to
E. Bach.
undertake a concert-tour in Holland.
MME. LUCCA'S DISCOVERY.—Herr von Bodany, the tenor discovered some
CHANGE, —Gericke, Imperial chapel-master, has succeeded Herr Kremser
time since by Pauline Lucca, has appeared at Olmuetz, not unsuccessfully,
as Faust in Gounod's opera of the same name. The result of his second ap- as conductor of the Society's Concerts, Vienna.
pearance, when he will impersonate Raoul in " L e s Huguenots," will decide
BEHRENS.—Mr. Conrad Behrens, formerly with Mapleson's Opera in
whether or no he is to sing at present at the Imperial Opera house, Vienna. London
and New York, met this winter with great success at Rotterdam,
HERSEE.— Mdme. Rose Hersee's Australian engagement was lately where he is engaged as leading bass of the German Opera troupe.
extended, and she was to sing in Italian and English opera six weeks at Ade-
DEATH LIST.—The deaths are announced—at Milan, aged 26, of Oscar
laide, two months in Tasmania, and afterwards at Sydney, should the Sydney
Cappy, tenor; at Rimini, of Dr. Giovani Savioli; at Florence, of the celebrated
Opera house be rebuilt in time.
symphonic conductor, Vinceslas Funio; at Vienna, of Miss Stella Marchesi,
H. R. H.—London Truth says that Princess Louise recently published a the youthful daughter of the celebrated singing teacher; at Paris, aged 86, of
galop composed by herself, and that she describes herself on the front page Emile Pfeiii'er, of the house of Pleyel Wolff, and at one time surgeon in the
as " Louise Campbell."
army of the great Bonaparte; at Novaro, aged 75, of Luigi Carnoletti, libret-
tist, and, of suicide of the basso, Cazzani; at Turin, aged 27, of Alfredo
PARSLFAL.— Wagner's overture to "Parsifal" was played for the first Frediani, vocalist, and at Milan, aged 74, of the impressario, Dominico
time on Friday, November 12, at the Court Theatre, Munich, by order of the Scalari; at Paris, of the publisher, M. E. C. Meis, aged 37 ; and at Bergamo,
King. Wagner himself directed the orchestra. There were present besides of Guiseppe Mini, composer, aged 82.
the King, Wagner's family and some of his friends and the members of the
opera company. The Munich correspondent of the Berlin Musik- Welt says
SOLID.—Before it was produced at Magdeburg, Wagner's " Meistersinger "
that the composition is " a clear, finely thought out work. It resembles the had 179 rehearsals—that is to say, 17 with orchestra, 3 with mise en scene,
overture to ' Lohengrin ' in its mystery, as if written with spirit hands but 4 d'ensemble, 75 with the artists respectively, and 80 choral rehearsals.
it is quite new and original."
DRESDEN.—The 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Dresden
PROHIBITED.—Strauss's new opera, " Des Spitzentuch der Konigin " Conservatoire will be celebrated in January. Bach's Mass in B minor will
which was very successful in Vienna, has been interdicted by the Censor in be performed.
Berlin, and that, too, after all the scenery and dresses were ready. Loud was
LONDON OPERA.—The season at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, closed
the grumbling thereat.
on Dec. 18th.