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PRoGRsnnE HIGH OPINIONS REGARDING THE PIANOFORTES *' In my opinion, they rank with the best pianos made." Wm. Mason. " I beheve your pianos to be of the very first -rank." Arthur Nikisch. Dr. Wm. riason. Arthur Nikisch. Harold Bauer. " In my opinion, no finer instrument exists than the Mason & Hamhn of to-day." Harold Bauer. " It is, I beheve, an instru- ment of the very first rank." MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI. " It is unsurpassed, so far as I know." Emil Paur. Moritz rioszkowski. Emil Paur. NEW ENGLAND REPRESENTATIVES M. STEINERT & SONS COMPANY 162 BOYLSTON STREET Boston Symphony Orchestra* SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON, HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES. Office, ( Ticket 1492 ) „ . ^,, „ . ,, TELEPHONE, } )- BACK BAY. Administration Offices, 1471 ) TWENTY-FIRST SEASON, J90J-J902. WILHELM GERICKE, CONDUCTOR. PROGRAMME OF THE FOURTH REHEARSAL and CONCERT WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE ji jt Jt jX FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 15, AT 2.30 aCLOCK. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, AT 8.00 O'CLOCK. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER. (153) S^UARTEGRANDR t AHIS instrument, which we I JL have just produced, defines an epoch in the history of piano- n forte making and is the only success- ful very small grand ever made. ^ Beautiful quality of tone and delightful touch ^taking but little more space than an upright, it sur- passes it in all the qualities desired in a pianoforte. CHICKERING & Sons IPlanoforte fiPal^ers 7p/ TREMONT STREET BOSTON, U.S.A. (154 TWENTY-FIRST SEASON, J90I-I902. Fourth Rehearsal and Concert* FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER J5, at 2.30 o'clock. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER J 6, at 8.00 o'clock. PROGRAMME. Wolfgfangf Amadeus Mozart Symphony in C major with Fugue- Finale C^opitcr'O I. Allegro vivace. II. Andante cantablle. III. Menuetto : Allegretto. Trio. IV. Finale : . AUeerro molto. Peter Tschaikowsky Concerto for Pianoforte, No. J, in B-flat minor^ Op. 23 I. Andante non troppo e molto maestoso. Allegro con spirlto. II. Andantino semplice. Allegro vivace assai. III. Allegro con fuoco. Intermission. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Symphony No. 3, in A minor, ''Scotch,'' Op. 56 I. Andante con moto. Allegro un poco agitato. II. Vivace non troppo. III. Adagio. IV. Allegro vivacissimo. Allegro maestoso assai. SOLOIST: Mr. JOSEF SLIVINSKI. The Piano is a Knabe. Patrons unable to remain until the close of the concert are urgently requested to leave the hall during a pause in the programme, City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898.— Chapter 3, relating' to the covering of the head in places of public amusement. Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood tliat a low head covering without projection, which does not ob- struct such view, may be worn. Attest- J. M. GALVIN, City Clerk. a ''5) L. P. HOLLANDERFURS & CO. ...RUSSIAN SABLES... We have imported an unusually fine lot of Skins from which to take orders, and have had made up a choice assortment in NEW DESIGNS OF SCARFS AND MUFFS, which we are able to sell at very reasonable prices, qualities considered. We are also showing a large line of Fur=Uned Garments, Some very smart shapes for DRIVING and others for EVENING WEAR, also FUR COATS, NECK PIECES, MUFFS, etc., in all the fashionable furs. Diamonds, matches Fine Jewelry MODERATE PRICES ONE OF THE LARGEST AS- SORTMENTS IN THE COUNTRY Sntitb. Patterson ^ Companv WHOLESALE AND RETAIL JEWELLERS 52 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON, MASS. (15fi) Symphony in C major, '• Jupiter" (K. 551). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (Bom at Salzburg, Jan. 27, 1756 ; died at Vienna, Dec. 5, 1791.) Mozart wrote his three greatest symphonies in 1788. The one in E- flat is dated June 26, the one in G minor July 25, the one in C major with the fugue-finale, August 10. His other works of that year are of little importance with the exception of a piano concerto in D major which he played at the coronation festivi- ties of Leopold II. at Frankfort in 1790. There are canons and piano pieces, there is the orchestration of Handel's "Acis and Galatea," and there are six German dances and twelve minuets for orchestra. Nor are the works composed in 1789 of interest, with the exception of the clarinet quintet and a string quartet dedicated to the King of Prussia. Again we find dances for orchestra,— twelve minuets and twelve German dances. is this ? the " " Why 1787 was year of Don Giovanni ; 1790, the year of " Cosi fan tutte." Was Mozart, as some say, exhausted by the feat of pro- ducing three symphonies in such a short time ? Or was there some reason for discouragement and consequent idleness .'' The Ritter Gluck, composer to the Emperor Joseph II., died Nov. 15, 1787, and thus resigned his position with salary of 2,000 florins. Mozart was appointed his successor, but the thrifty Joseph cut down the salary to 800 florins. And Mozart at this time was sadly in need of money, as his letters show. In a letter of June, 1788, he tells of his new lodgings, where he could have better air, a garden, quiet. In another, dated June 27, he " says : I have done more work in the ten days that I have lived here than in two months in my other lodgings, and I should be much better here, were it not for dismal thoughts that often come to me. I must drive them I resolutely away ; for am living comfortably, pleasantly, and cheaply." We know that he borrowed from Puchberg, a merchant, with whom he became NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY SCHOOL OF OPERA UNDER THE DIRECTION OF Sig. ORESTE BIMBOIMI Of the Vienna, Berlin, Moscow, London, and Italian Royal Opera Houses Sig. BIMBONI Mrs. ERVING WINSLOW COACHING J§i:S;rfnd^"8T;cE M^iACEM^lN? LYRIC EXPRESSION Mrs. LILLA VILES WYMAN Sig. MARCO PIACENTI CLASSICAL and STAGE DANCING FENCING Classes; Advanced, Intermediate, and General Registration now open Open t» all veal ttiidentg, whetlier ptipifa •/ th* Contervatory or not (157) V. BALLARD & SONS, We are showing handsome PARIS Models of Evening Waists and Shirt Waists And a most Exclusive line of Novelties in Silks, Flannels, Velveteen Cords, etc., etc. Prices for Silk Waists, $15 and up. Flannel Waists, $7.50 up. We carry a rich assortment of PARIS NECKWEAR and a full line of Keiser Stocks. 256 BOYLSTON STREET. ; acquainted at a Masonic lodge, for the letter with Puchbeig's memoran- dum of the amount is in the collection edited by Nohl. Mozart could not reasonably expect help from the Emperor. The com- poser of " Don Giovanni" and the " Jupiter " symphony was unfortunate in his Emperors. The Emperor Joseph was in the habit of getting at five up o'clock ; he dined on boiled bacon at 3.15 ; he preferred water, but he would drink a glass of Tokay ; he was continually putting chocolate drops from his waist- coat pocket into his mouth ; he gave gold coins to the poor ; he was un- willing to sit for his portrait ; he had remarkably fine teeth ; he disliked sycophantic fuss ; he patronized the English who introduced horse-racing and Michael Kelly, who tells us many things, says he was "passionately fond of mui-ic and a most excellent and accurate judge of it." But we know that he did not like the music of Mozart. Joseph commanded from his composer Mozart no opera, cantata, sym- phony, or piece of chamber music, although he was paying him 800 florins a year. He did order dances, the dances named above. For the dwellers in Vienna were dancing-mad. Let us listen to Kelly, who knew Mozart and sang in the first performance of " Le Nozze di Figaro " in 1786: "The ridotto rooms, where the masquerades took place, were in the palace ; and, spacious and commodious as they were, they were actually crammed with masqueraders. I never saw or indeed heard of any suite of rooms where elegance and convenience were more considered, for the propensity of the Vienna ladies for dancing and going to carnival masquerades was so determined that nothing was permitted to interfere with their enjoyment of their favorite amusement. , . The ladies of Vienna are particularly celebrated for their grace and movements in waltzing, of which they never tire. For my own part, I thought waltzing from ten at night until seven in the morning a continual whirligig, most NEW SONGSIQPERA ^^ ^y"®^ ^''^"op^a. UP-TO-DATE SCORES No. I. If all the Dreams. Messenger Boy No. 2. Thy Picture. No. 3. Tell Her. No. 4. A Bedtime Song. No. 5. Dreams. Op. 34. The Fisher Maiden. SEXT FREE. Tornl Porfrait Catalogue of Eoreign and .Itnerican Cutnitosera. ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT BOSTON : LEIPZIG. NEW YORK: 146 Boylston St. 136 Fifth Avenue tiresome to the eye and ear, to say nothing of any worse consequences." For these dances Mozart wrote, as did Haydn, Hummel, Beethoven. Thus was Mozart without true royal protection. He wrote Puchberg that he hoped to find more patrons abroad than in Vienna. In the spring of 1789 he left his beloved Constance, and made a concert tour in hope of bettering his fortunes. Mozart was never fully appreciated in Vienna during his last wretched yet glorious years. It is not necessary to tell the story of the loneliness of his last days, the indifference of court and city, the insignificant burial. This lack of appreciation was wondered at in other towns. See, for instance, Studien fur Tonkiinstler und Miisikfrezinde, a musical journal pub- lished at Berlin in 1792.