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VOL. XLI. N o . 1 8 .
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, Nov. 4,1905.
NEW WORKS FOR OPERA SEASON.
Season Opens Nov. 2 0 — W i l l Extend Over Sev-
enteen Weeks—Famous Composers to Come.
The prospectus of the season at the Metro-
politan Opera House adds little to what Mr. Con-
ried has already made known of his plans. The
season will open on Nov. 20, and extend over
seventeen weeks, with sixty-eight regular sub-
scription performances and seventeen Saturday
evening performances and the usual Sunday
night affairs. The list of revivals and new pro-
ductions already announced is confirmed, as fol-
lows:—Goldmark's "Konigin von Saba," ("The
Queen of Sheba"), Puccini's "Manon Lescaut,"
Humperdinck's "Hansel und Gretel," Flotow's
"Marta," Wagner's "Fliegender Hollander"
("The Flying Dutchman"), Strauss's "Zigeuner-
Baron" ("The Gypsy Baron"), Donizetti's "La
Favorita," Bellini's "La Sonnambula," Verdi's
"II Trovatore," and Mozart's "Don Giovanni."
Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of "Hansel
und Gretel," has promised to come to the first
performance of it, and Puccini, it is hoped, will
come over to hear "Manon Lescaut."
SWISS CHANGE NATIONAL HYMN.
It is not often that a nation changes its na-
tional hymn. The Swiss have, however, for-
mafly announced their intention of so doing and
of adopting the less well known Swiss Psalm,
or "Cantique Suisse," instead of the hitherto
universally sung "O Monts Independants."
The reason of this change is that the latter
has always been rendered to Carey's melody of
"God Save the King," which is identical also
with the German "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz,"
and the Switzers are beginning to find this
sameness too confusing. Henceforward, there-
fore, they will change their tune to one which
shall be theirs only, and, indeed, the melody
accompanying the words, "Sur nos monts quand
le soleil," etc., of the "Cantique Suisse" is, if
anything, more inspiring than the old one.
It is also by a true son of the Alps, one
Zwyssig, to whom a monument was erected on
the Lake of the "Four Cantons" a few years
ago. That the "late" national anthem can have
had but a small hold on the people's affections
is proved by the way the "new" one is readily
accepted on all sides.
WOMEN SINGERS IN EUROPE.
Yvonne de Treville, who is remembered from
the old Castle Square days, is a young prima
donna of American opera who finds her services
very much in demand in the old world. She
studied for a year after leaving New York, and
since her reappearance in Europe has sung in
most of the large Continental cities, and always
with success.
Eleonora de Cisneros, known as Eleanor
Broadfoot at the Metropolitan, is still another
American who is in the first rank of singers
over in Europe. She is to be the contralto of
the Italian season, to begin next month in Lon-
don.
Nellie Melba is going to sing there, too, and
then give a concert tour before she comes to this
country to take her long rest in California. She
will also give a few concerts here. The Aus-
tralian soprano is going to let her London
house for a while, but says she is not engaged
to marry Sir Richard Nevill, whom she met in
Australia, where he was attached to the Lieu-
tenant-Governor's staff.
This London season of opera is to engage the
services of Signor Caruso and the same singers
heard last year. Prices are cheaper and the
performances lack the social brilliancy of the
summer season at Covent Garden.
Emma Nevada is one of the prima donnas
who have begun to take pupils, and, according
to the correspondent of the New York Sun, she
expresses great confidence in the success of one
of them. This is an American girl, who will
soon be ready to sing in public.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
plete work, which must rank as among the very
greatest things Mozart wrote, and therefore as
one of the great things in the art of music. It
is clear from internal evidence that at the time
of writing it the master was influenced by the
music of Bach and Handel, rather than by the
brilliant conventions of his own day in regard
to sacred music. In the Gloria there is a dis-
tinct reminiscence of the "Hallelujah Chorus"
from "The Messiah," and the "Domine Deus,"
the noble eight-part "Qui tollis," the trio "Quo-
niam," the "Crucifixus," and many other pas-
sages suggest Bach in every bar. The "Domine
Deus," which, as in the older master's mass in
B minor, is set as a duet, contains also a very
curious point which suggests that Mozart must
have seen that famous composition, for the two
voices, at one moment in the number, address
the first and second persons of the Trinity simul-
taneously, just as they do in Bach.
LOVERS OF CHAMBER MUSIC
Should be Satisfied With the Feast
for Them This Season.
Outlined
Lovers of chamber music will have abundant
opportunity to gratify their taste this season.
Besides the Kneisels, we shall hear the Boston
Symphony Quartet, with Heinrich Warnke as
'cellist in place of Mr. Krasselt. Prof. Willy
Hess will remain the leader; he has brought
novelties from Europe, by Sinding, Glazounoff,
Buys, Sinigaglia, Koessler. Then there is the
admirable Olive Mead Quartet, which will pro-
duce novelties by Sinding, Taneieff, and Lekev
at its four concerts. The Dannreuther and Kal-
tenborn Quartets will add their usual contribu-
tions. Of the other organizations, the best is
the Adele Margulies Trio, which will play three
times at Mendelssohn Hall. Grieg's delightful
sonata in F major for piano and violin is one
of the works promised; a new 'cello sonata by
Jemain is another. A new string quartet which
will be welcomed is the Leo Schulz Quartet,
composed of Maurice Kaufman, first violin;
David Robinson, second violin; Fritz Schaefer,
viola, and Leo Schulz, violoncello. Their con-
certs will be given in Knabe Hall, 154 Fifth
avenue, the first two on Jan. 8 and March 9.
A NEW MASS BY MOZART
Recently Performed in England—May Rank
Among the Greatest Things He Ever Wrote.
A "new mass" by Mozart was performed at the
Bristol (England) Festival for the first time on
October 12. This work, in C minor, the world
owes to Dr. Alois Schmitt, who produced it in
Dresden four years ago. The London Times gives
this account of it:
,"The Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and Benedictus
were written in 1782-83, and parts of the Credo
seem also to have been written at the same time.
A certain amount of the work was used in the
oratorio "Davidde Penitente," but in its original
form the work was practically unknown. By
filling up the gaps in the Credo from other
church music of Mozart's, and repeating the mo-
tive of the opening Kyrie for the concluding Ag-
nus Dei, it was possible to weld it into a com-
THE COPYRIGHT ON "CARMEN."
The directors of German opera houses are
greatly exercised in their minds about the roy-
alties on "Carmen." German law recognizes
copyright only for thirty years after the death
of an author or composer, the year of death not
included. Copyright in "Carmen," therefore, ex-
pires in Germany at the close of this year, as
Bizet died in June, 1875. But the matter is
complicated by the fact that, whereas the music
will be free, the translation is not. The ordi-
nary translation used here was written in 1887,
and will not therefore be free until 1917. The
opera directors therefore must either pay Ma-
dame Strauss, Bizet's widow, the usual "fee"
until 1917, or use the French libretto, or re-
translate for themselves.
STRAUSS' NEW OPERA.
"Salome," the new opera by Richard Strauss,
will be given for the first time in the Royal
Dresden Opera House on Nov. 20. It is looked
forward to by German musical circles with great
interest. With the exception of "Rheingold" It
will be the longest one-act opera on the stage.
Its performance will probably occupy two hours.
The title-role will be entrusted to Frau Wittich.
TREAT IN STORE FOR ORGANISTS.
Organists will be glad to hear of a treat in
store for them. Saint-Saens, who was seventy
years old on the 9th of October, was organist at
the St. Madeleine Church in Paris from 1858 to
1870. During this period he wrote a large num-
ber of ecclesiastic works. Most of these are still
in manuscript in the church's library, because of
an agreement that they were not to be published
until after the composer's death. When the time
comes for giving them to the world, they will
doubtless prove a valuable addition to the or-
ganist's repertory.
Gerardy will introduce for the first time in
this country at the Philharmonic Society con-
certs on Jan. 5 and 6 a new concerto by Jules
Jourgen, never before heard in this country.