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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 12, 1892-1893, Trip MUSIC HALL, BUFFALO CONCERT BY THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. FRANZ KNEISEL, Conductor. Twelfth Season, 1892-93. With Historical and Descriptive Notes prepared by William F. Apthorp, PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, Manager. TH E ASON & HAMLIN PIANOS represent that same Highest Standard of excellence which has achieved a repu- tation for their Organs as the Standard of the World. F. KNOLL, Local Representative. (2) Boston Music Hall, Symphony ^ Buffalo. Orchestra Season of 1892-93. Mr. FRANZ KNEISEL, Conductor. Thursday Evening, May 4, 1893, at 8 o'clock. PROGRAMME. Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 2, in C major, Op. 61 I. Sostenuto assai (C major) - - - - - 6-4 Allegro ma non troppo (C major) - 3-4 u - II. Scherzo : Allegro vivace (C major) 2-4 Trio 1°: The same tempo (G major) - 2-4 Trio 11°: The same tempo (C major) - 2-4 III. Adagio espressivo (C minor) - 2-4 IV. Allegro molto vivace (C major) - 2-2 Weber - Agathe's Scene and Aria, from "Freischuetz " t Camille Saint-Saens - Concerto for Violin, No. 1, in A major, Op. 20 I. Allegro (A major) _____ e-4 II. Andante espressivo (D major) - - - - 2-4 III. Tempo primo (A major) - - _ _ _ q_4 / Bach - - Praeludium, Adagio, and Gavotte, for String Orchestra j/ Arranged by Bachrich. Moritz Moszkowski Two Movements from Suite No. 1, in F major, Op. 39 - III. Tema con variazioni : Andante (A major) 2-4 V. Perpetuum mobile : Vivace (P major) - - 4-4 , Wagner - Introduction to Act III., Dance of Apprentices and Proces- " sion of the Mastersingers, from " Die Meistersinger SOLOISTS: Miss FELICIA KASCHOSKA. Mr. C. M. LOEFFLER, ESTABLISHES EVERY INSTRUMENT TERMS REASONABLE FULLY WARRANTED, p«ee. NEW EMERSON FACTORY. O H> o o o o 3 -h ** JO 0> JO 3 b (D tf) o * 3 o JO CD 3 JO 13. a 5 3" JO CO O 03 0) JO JO o lb JO JO JB o JO .' o l-»- 0) ^ o 560 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Mass. 186 Boytston St., Boston, 92 FiftJh Ave., New York. ., Chicago. E. MOELLER, Local Representative. (4) Symphony No, 2, in C major, Op. 61. Robert Schumann, 1810-1856. Robert Alexander Schumann was born at Zwickau, in Saxony, on June 8, 1810, and died at Endenich, near Bonn, on July 29, 1856. The youngest son of Friedrich August Gottlob and Christiana (Schnabel) Schumann, Robert gave evidence of musical talent in early childhood. But his incli- nation toward music was encouraged only by his father, his mother being strongly opposed to his receiving any musical education. Yet his father's sympathy with his natural bent prevailed for a while, and he was allowed to take pianoforte lessons of J. G. Kuntzsch, the organist at the Marien- kirche, in his native town. Kuntzsch foretold great things of him ; and, indeed, he began to try his hand at composition when only seven years old. In the course of the winter 18 17-18 his father applied to Karl Maria von Weber to take charge of the boy's musical instruction. Weber seemed not disinclined to do it ; but, for one reason or another, nothing ever came of the plan. In 1820 Robert entered the Zwickau Gymnasium, and re- mained there until Easter, 1828. But, before his time there was up, his father died (in 1826) ; and his mother's inveterate opposition to his adopt- THE LATEST SPECIALTIES IN SILKS, WOOLENS, m COTTONS OF LIBERTY & CO., LONDON, CAN BE HAD ONLY OF US IN THE! STATES. English Serges, Camel's Hairs, Chudders, India Tusser, Seer- suckers, China Linens, Canton Crapes, Nankeen, etc., in qualities and designs MOT FOUND IN THE GENERAL STORES. W. H. DAVIS & CO., 51 & 53 Summer St., BOSTON, U.S. A, Mention of this Programme will secure lowest prices. (5) > CHMIDT, Z D 9 154 Tremont St., Boston, Mass., x • W Sole Agent in the United States for ^ Henry Litolff, Brunswick, Germany; Edition Chanot, Violin < Music, and the Vienna Conservatory Edition of the Pianoforte Classics. -J -J < g OUR FAVORITE SONQ WRITERS. Q BEACH, Mrs. H. H. A.— Song Album, 15 Selected Songs, . $1.50 -j BREWER, JOHN HYATT, Op. 27.— 6 Songs for Sop. or Tenor, .75 [" CHADWICK, G. W.— Songs of Brittany, . .75 . > CHADWICK, Q. W.— Album of Songs, . 1.50 H FOOTE, ARTHUR, Op. 26.— 11 Favorite Songs, 1.25 0- LANG, MARGARET RUTHVEN.— 10 Selected Songs, . 1.00 g LYNES, FRANK.— A Cyclus of 15 Songs, 1.50 tt MacDOWELL, E. A., Op. 40.— 6 Love Songs, 75 MARSTON, G. W.— Album of Songs for Soprano or Tenor, . 1.50 Z MARSTON, G. W.— Song Album for Alto or Baritone, . 1.50 v ** PITMAN, ALICE L.— Album of 5 Songs, . .75 g ROGERS, CLARA K.— Song Album, . 1.50 H ROGERS, CLARA K.— 6 Browning Songs, 75 2 SCHLESINGER, SEB. B— 25 Favorite Songs, . .... 1.50 q Lyrics, Choice Songs by American Composers.— 2 volumes «0 (in press), each, . ... 1.00 CO & FOR SALE AT ALL THE MUSIC STORES. qyj O Complete Graded Catalogue Sent Free upon Application. J < 2 BOSTON, -.-- ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT. (6) ing music as a profession now had full force. On March 29, 1828, he was matriculated at the Leipzig University as Studiosus Juris. Here he spent a year, studying law, with neither enthusiasm nor much regularity, and passed another year in the same pursuit at the University of Heidelberg. While in Leipzig, he took some pianoforte lessons of Friedrich Wieck, and made the acquaintance of Dr. Carus,* an enthusiastic music-lover, at whose house he met Heinrich Marschner and other musicians of note. At last, in 1830, he overcame his mother's repugnance to music, and was allowed, being then twenty years old, to begin a fit education for making it his profession. He returned to Leipzig, and began a serious study of the pianoforte under Wieck, -studying composition the while under Heinrich Porn. His progress with the former was both solid and rapid, but he could not bring himself to follow the latter's teaching with equal assiduity. In 1840 the University of Jena gave him the degree of Ph.D. ; and in this same year he married Clara Josephine, eldest daughter of his teacher, Wieck, much against her father's wish.f When the Leipzig Conserva- torium was founded by Mendelssohn in 1843, Schumann joined the staff of teachers at that institution as instructor in score-reading ; but here his serious troubles began. As a composer, Schumann exerted the strongest and most wide-spread influence upon subsequent generations of musicians of any man of his time : the Mendelssohn influence, bright and vivifying as it was, was ephemeral in comparison. Indeed, it may be said without hyperbole that, leaving aside the great classic masters from Bach to Beethoven, our whole modern music in Germany, France, Scandinavia, and Russia, derives mainly from Robert Schumann and Hector Berlioz,— different as the two men were in almost every particular. He was one of the greatest harmonists that ever lived ; and, although his lack of early training prevented his ever becoming the consummate master of musical form and development that Mendelssohn (the "best taught " composer of all time) was, the profound and exalted character of " " *The one in whose album Hector Berlioz wrote, Patientibus carus, sed clarus inter doctos ! (Dear " to his patients, but famous amongst the learned), having dedicated a copy of a theme from his "Te Deum to " Dr. Clarus " by mistake. t Clara Wieck's mother was divorced from Wieck some time after the younger daughter's (Maria Wieck) birth, and subsequently married one Bargiel, a Berlin music-teacher, by whom she became the mother of Woldemar Bargiel, the composer, who was consequently Robert Schumann's step-brother-in-law. (Founded by Dr. Eben Tourjee.) RICHARD H. DANA, President CARL FAELTEN, Director. THE COURSES OF STUDY are arranged with a view to giving a broad and compre- hensive musical education. THE FACULTY have been chosen with reference not only to their standing as artists, but also with regard to their ability as teachers of the highest excellence. THE ASSOCIATED DEPARTMENTS of Music, Elocution, Fine Arts, and Modern Lan- guages provide the most ample means for acquiring a thorough and complete knowledge of one or all of these subjects at comparatively small cost. THE FREE COLLATERAL ADVANTAGES, consisting of the Faculty Concerts, Pupils' Recitals, Lectures, Chorus Classes, Orchestral Practice, etc., are of inestimable value to the student. Special classes in the Art of Conducting, the training of Eoy Choirs and a Normal Course for advanced pupils who are preparing to teach, are now made .prom- inent features of the work. Send for calendar, or call at the Institution. F. W. HALE, General Manager. FRANKLIN SQUARE, BOSTON, MASS. (7) ; his genius placed him beyond question at the head of music in his day.* He derived the best part of his technique in composition from an arduous course of self-directed study of the works of Sebastian Bach. As an orchestral and pianoforte writer, he stands in the very first rank as a song writer, only Robert Franz can join him in being worthy to wear Franz Schubert's mantle ; and in some of his choral works he has probably touched the loftiest point reached in vocal music since Beethoven. No little has been said of his want of skill in treating the orchestra, but he made a great advance in this special art in his later period ; and in his earlier works, if his orchestration seem at times rather clumsy and ineffective, it is still thoroughly individual and apposite to his style of writing, and all attempts to improve it have turned out to be futile.
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