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THE LYRIC THEATRE . BALTIMORE Thirty-first Season, 19H-J9J2 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor JJnigramm? of % Fifth and Last Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20 AT 8.15 COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER : : Vladimir De Pachmann The Greatest Pianist Of the 20th Century ON TOUR # IN THE UNITED STATES SEASON: 1911-1912 For generations the appearance of new stars on the musical firmament has been announced — then they came with a temporary glitter — soon to fade and to be forgotten. De Pachmann has outlived them all. With each return he won additional resplendence and to-day he is acknowl- edged by the truly artistic public to be the greatest exponent of the piano of the twentieth century. As Arthur Symons, the eminent British critic, says " Pachmann is the Verlaine or Whistler of the Pianoforte the greatest player of the piano now living." Pachmann, as before, uses the BALDWIN PIANO for the expression of his magic art, the instrument of which he himself says " .... It cries when I feel like crying, it sings joyfully when I feel like singing. It responds — like a human being — to every mood. I love the Baldwin Piano." Every lover of the highest type of piano music will, of course, go to hear Pachmann — to revel in the beauty of his music and to marvel at it. It is the beautiful tone quality, the voice which is music itself, and the wonderfully responsive action of the Baldwin Piano, by which Pachmann's miraculous hands reveal to you the thrill, the terror and the ecstasy of a beauty which you had never dreamed was hidden in sounds. Sole Representatives W. F. KUNKEL & CO. 119 NORTH LIBERTY STREET, BALTIMORE, MD. Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Thirty-first Season, 1911-1912 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Violins. Witek, A., Roth, O. Hoffmann, J. Theodorowicz, J. Concert-master. Kuntz, D. Krafft, F. W. Mahn, F. Noack, S. 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BALTIMORE Mount Royal and Maryland Avenues Twenty-seventh Season in Baltimore Thirty-first Season, 1911-1912 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor FIFTH AND LAST CONCERT WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20 AT 8.15 MAX FIEDLER'S FAREWELL APPEARANCE PROGRAMME Beethoven Overture, "Leonora," No. 3, Op. 72 Brahms Symphony No. 1, in C minor, Op. 68 I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro. II. Andante sostenuto. III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso. IV. Adagio; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio. Liszt "TheLoreley" Wagner Prelude to " Lohengrin Lia, Debussy . Recitative and Aria of from "L'Enfant Prodigue" Richard Strauss . Tone Poem, "Death and Transfiguration," Op. 24 SOLOIST Mme. LOUISE HOMER There will be an intermittian of ten minutes after the symphony 5 Overture to "Leonora" No. 3, Op. 72. Ludwig van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.) Beethoven's opera, "Fidelio, oder die eheliche Liebe," with text adapted freely by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Bouilly ("L£onore; ou, TAmour Conjugal," a "fait historique" in two acts and in prose, music by Gaveaux, Opera-Comique, Paris, February 19, 1798), was first performed at Vienna, November 20, 1805, with Anna Pauline Milder, * afterward Mrs. Hauptmann, as the heroine. The first performance in Boston was on April 1, 1857, with Mrs. Johannsen, Miss Berkiel, Beutler,f Neumann, Oehlin, and Weinlich as the chief singers. •Pauline Anna Milder was born at Constantinople, December 13, 1785. She died at Berlin, May 20, 1838. The daughter of an Austrian courier, or, as some say, a pastry cook to the Austrian embassador at Constantinople, and afterward interpreter to Prince Maurojeni, she had a most adventurous childhood. (The story is told at length in von Ledebur's "Tonkunstler-Lexicon Berlin's.") Back in Austria, she studied three years with Sigismund Neukomm. Schikaneder heard her and brought her out in Vienna in 1803, as Juno in Siismayer's "Der Spiegel von Arkadien."_ She soon became famous, and she was engaged at the court opera, where she created the part of Leonora in "Fidelio." In 1810 she married a jeweller, Hauptmann. She sang as guest at many opera-houses and was offered brilliant engagements, and in 1816 she became a member of the Berlin Royal Opera House at a yearly salary of four thousand thalers and a vacation of three months. She retired with, a pension in 1831, after having sung in three hundred and eighty operatic performances. She was also famous in Berlin as an oratorio singer. She appeared again in Berlin in 1834, but her voice was sadly worn, yet she sang as a guest in Copenhagen and St. Petersburg. Her funeral was conducted with pomp and ceremony, and it is said that the "Iphigenia in Tauris," "Alceste," and "Armide," her favorite operas, were put into her coffin,—a favor she asked shortly before her death. t Mr. Beutler sang that night for the last time. He had a cold, and the physician warned him against singing, but the audience filled the theatre, and he was persuaded. He^ became hoarse immediately after the performance, and, as his vocal chords were paralyzed, he never sang again. Mendelssohn, who had given him musical instruction, praised his voice, but urged him not to use it in opera, as it would not stand the wear and tear. Beutler them gave up the ambition of his life, but in the Revolution of 1848 he and other students at Heidelberg were obliged to leave the country. He came to the United States, and yielded to the temptation of a good offer from an opera manager. He became an understudy of Mario, then the misfortune befell him. 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There was talk of a performance at Prague in 1807, and Beethoven wrote for it a new overture, in which he retained the theme drawn from Florestan's air, "In des Lebens Fruhlingstagen," but none of the other material used in Nos. 2 and 3. The opera was not performed, and the autograph of the overture disappeared. "Fi- delio" was revived at Vienna in 18 14, and for this performance Beet- hoven wrote the "Fidelio" overture. We know from his diary that he "rewrote and bettered" the opera by work from March to May 15 of that year. The dress rehearsal was on May 22, but the promised overture was not ready. On the 20th or 21st Beethoven was dining at a tavern with his friend Bartolini. After the meal was over, Beethoven took a bill-of-fare, drew lines on the back of it, and began to write. "Come, let us go," said Bartolini. "No, wait awhile: I have the scheme of my overture," answered Beethoven, and he sat until he had finished his sketches. Nor was he at the dress rehearsal. They waited for him a long time, then went to his lodgings. He was fast asleep in bed.