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"Independent Service" (including trips to Bermuda) for those wishing to travel without escort. Raymond & Whitcomb Company n Temple Place Boston Telephone: Beach 6964 210 — Symphony in C major, No.. 34 (Kochel, No. 338) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Born at Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died at Vienna, December 5, 1791) This symphony was composed at Salzburg. The score bears the inscription, "di Wolfgango Amadeo Mozart li 29 d' Agosto, Salis- bnrgo, 1780." The symphony is supposed to be the one mentioned by Mozart in his letter from Vienna, April 1 1, 1781 : ''I have lately forgotten to write that the symphony (conducted by the old Bono*) went magnifique^ and had great success. Forty violins played the wind instruments were all doubled—ten violas, ten double- basses, light violoncellos, and six bassoons." The symphony was played for the first time at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston on April 1, 1899. The last performance at these concerts was on December 17, 1904. *.Toseph Bono, or Bonno, born at Vienna in 1710, died there in 1788. He was the son of a running footman in the service of the Emperor Charles VI.. who sent the boy to Naples to study composition. The Emperor took him on his return into his service as Imperial Conductor and Chamber Composer. Bono wrote these operas : ' "Ezio" ; "II vero omaggio" (1750) ; "Natale di Giova" (1710) ; "Danae" (1744) ; '"II Re pastore" (1751) ; "L'Eroe Cinese" (1752) ; "L'Isola disabitata" (1752) ; '-Atenaide" (1762) ; two oratorios "Isacco" and "San Paolo in Atene," also music for the church. He was one of the greatest singing teachers of his period. He conducted the Wiener ToukCnstler Societat from 1775 till his death, when he was succeeded by Salieri. This society refused to admit Mozart to membership, because he could not present a certificate of baptism. EDWARD BALLANTINE Ionian Melody .60 GAIL RIDGWAY BROWN A Song of Summer .50 Winter Winds . .75 Venetian Serenade .50 G. A. GRANT-SCHAEFER Wistfulness .60 Supplication .60 Balletto .50 Melodies of Olden Timss 1.00 {Schmidt's Educational Series No. 295) Six compositions for violin and piano from masters of the 18th century, whDse merit and beauty are not as well known as they should bs. Selections from Zingarelli, Dalayrac, Sacchini, Dezede, Delia Maria and Gaveaux — numbers that are singularly melodious and unhackneyed. ALFRED MOFFAT Mechanism and Expression . 1.00 A progressive collection of studies (Schmidt's Educitional S<iries No. 79a.) IRMA SEYDEL Song without Words . .50 Bijou — Minuet ...... .50 Au Clair de Lune ...... .50 THE ^TCOo, 120 Boylston St. 211 The symphony is scored for two oboes, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, kettledrums, and strings. The minuet was not first introduced into the symphony by Hadyn, as is often stated. There is one in a syymphony in D major by Georg Matthias Monn* composed before 1740. Haydn's first sym- phony was composed in 1759. Gossec's first symphonies were pub- lished in 1754. Sammartini (1734) and others had written sym- phonies before Gossec; but the date of Gossec's introduction of the minuet has not been determined. There were some who thought that a symphony worthy the name should be without a minuet. The learned Hofrath Johann Gottlieb Carl Spazier of Berlin wrote a strong protest which appeared in the number of the Musikalisches Wochenblatt after the issue that announced Mozart's death. He characterized the minuet as a destroyer of unity and coherence. In a dignified work there should be no discordant mirth. If a minuet be allowed, why not a polonaise or a gavotte? The first movement should be in some prevailing mood, joyful, uplifted, proud, solemn, etc. A slow and gentle movement brings relief, and prepares the hearer for the finale or still stronger presentation of the first mood. The minuet is disturbing: it reminds one of the dance-hall and the misuse of music : "When it is caricatured, as is often the case in minuets by Haydn or Pleyel, it excites laughter.