Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 8, 1888-1889

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Weber The great success of " Der Freyschiitz " in 1821 turned the attention of leading opera managers to Weber, who agreed with Dominico Barbaja to write a second opera; Barbaja, it may be said, operated extensively in Southern Europe, but particularly at the Karntherthor Theatre, Vienna. After much trouble Weber accepted a libretto at the hands of Wilhelmine von Chezy a bluestocking from Dresden (whom Hanslick once called witty.) This eccentric person laid before him a sketch made from a Getman transla- tion of an old French romance " Historie de Gerard de Nc'vers, et de la belle et verteuse jEuryanthe, sa mieJ^ The opera failed, chiefly because of the utterly meaningless libretto of the von Chezy, of whom it is related that on the night of the first performance of " Euryanthe," Oct. 25, 1823, in the Karn- therthor Theatre, Vienna, coming in rather late, when the aisles were filled, she tried to find her way to the front ^z'd'r the crowd, exclaiming, "Make !" room, make room, for me, I say ! I tell you I am the poetess ! the poetess The opera was mostly written in the summer of 1822, in Hosterwitz, where Weber and his wife and infant son were staying. During that summer Sir Julius Benedict was Wêber's pupil, and he writes thus of the work in " ' ' hand : Watching the progress of his Euryanthe from the first note to its completion, I had the best opportunity of observing his system of compos- ing. Manjr a time might he be seen early in the morning, some closely- written pages in his hand, which he stood still to read, and then wandered on through forest and glen muttering to himself. He was learning by heart the words of ' Euryanthe,' which he studied until he made them a portion of himself, — his own creation, as it were. His genius would sometimes lie dormant during his frequent repetition of the words, and then the idea of a whole musical piece would flash upon his mind,|like the bursting of light into CARL B. ZERRAHN, CHASE'S GALLERY 7 Hamilton Place, SYMPHONY CONCERT PROGRAMME Exhibition and Private Sale PARK THEATRE E. 857 WASHINGTON STREET, OF Room 6 - - - "Herald" Building. JPICTTTIIjES Mr. George H. Adams is authorized to receive ad- BY vertisements for this Programme. CARL G. ZERRAHN. C. E. L. GREEN (741) H. B. STEVENS & CO. 169 Tremomt Street - ^ BOSTON (3 cLoors nortlL of Mlason JStreet), jVtttStC JPttC^ftsft AGENTS FOR SCHIRMER'S PUBLICATIONS. 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He then noted down the voices fully, and only marked here and there the harmonies or the places where particular instruments were to be introduced. Sometimes he indicated by signs, known only to himself, his most characteristic orchestral effects ; then he would play to his wife or to me, from these incomplete sketches, the most striking pieces of the opera, invariably in the form they afterwards maintained. The whole was so thoroughly developed in his brain that his instrumentation was little more than the labor of a copyist ; and the notes flowed to his pen with the marks of all the shading of expression, as if copper-plated on the paper, . The scoring of the opera of ' Euryanthe ' from his sketches occupied only sixty days." " The overture is rich in its effects, chivalric, repressive, and passionate by turns. It includes several of the important musical and dramatic feat- ures of the opera. The leading phrase embodying Adolar's trust in " God and his Euryanthe " conjures up at once the splendor of a Provencal court, with its knights, its troubadours, and fair ladies. The second subject is taken from Adolar's scena " O Seligkeit, dich fass ich kaum," and forms a delightful contrast with the preceding, after which an unexpected and novel modulation leads to a mysterious movement which embodies the ghostly apparition of Adolar's ancestors. The characters of Adolar's rival, Lysiart, and of Euryanthe's false friend, Eglantine, are portrayed by their respective musical figures, which, alternating with snatches of the first subject, describe well the struggle of truth and loyalty against fraud and trea- son. At last the clouds are dispersed, and the return to the beginning, and to Adolar's motive, " O Seligkeit," in the original key, now a jubilant, PHOTOGRAPHIC Miller's Reform Boot. (Pat. in the U. S.) 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