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Dosioii Music Hallj Boston , Symphony I THIRTEENTH SEASON, Orchestra 1 893-94. EMIL PAUR, Conductor. PROGRAMME OF THE Third Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY WILLIAM F. APTHORP. Friday Afternoon, October 27, At 2.30 o'clock. Saturday Evening, October 28, At 8 o'clock. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER. (73) MASON & HAMLIN RECEIVED HIGHEST HONORS ON PIANOS AND ORGANS, AT World's Columbian Exposition, CHICAGO, 1893. SPECIAL MENTION. SCREW-STRINGER*. Conceded by Judges' Report to be of great value; by which tuning is made easier, and because of which the Mason & Hamlin Piano is declared to remain in tune longer than any other piano. Pronounced a Unique and Artistic Instrument, a LISZT ORGAN ! and decided advance in construction. MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO. 154 and 155 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON. (74) Third Rehearsal and Concert- Friday Afternoon, October 27, at 2.30, Saturday Evening, October 28, at 8.00, PROGRAMME. Hermann Goetz ----- Symphony in F major, Op. 9 I. Allegro moderate* (F major) - 3-4 - II. Intermezzo : Allegretto (C major) - 2-4 III. Adagio ma non troppo lento (P minor) - 3-4 4-L IV. Finale : Allegro con fuoco (F major) - 4 Robert Volkmann Serenade for String Orchestra, No. 3, in D minor, Op. 69 Larghetto non troppo (D minor) - 4-4 Solo Violoncello, Mr. ALWIN SCHROEDER. Ludwig van Beethoven Overture to "Leonore," No. 3, in C major, Op. 72 Adagio (0 major) - _____ 3-4 Allegro (C major; - - - 2-2 The Programme for the next Public Rehearsal and Concert will be found on page 101. (75) : MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANOS EUGEN D'ALBERT : From fullest conviction, I declare them to be the best In- struments of America. ........ DR. HANS VON BULOW : Their sound and touch are more sympathetic to my ears and hands than all others of the country. I declare them the absolutely best in America. ....... ALFRED GRUNFELD I consider them the best instruments of our times. P. TSGHAIKOVSKY : Combines with great volume of tone rare sympathetic and noble tone color and perfect action. ....... WAREROOMS: BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, Si and 24 E. Baltimore Street. 817 Pennsylvania Avenue. NEW YORK, 148 Fifth Avenue. E. W. TYLER, Sole Agent, 178 Tremont St., BOSTON, (76) Hermann Goetz (born at Konigsberg on December 17, 1840, died at Hot- tingen in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, on December 3, 1876) was one of those young composers of great promise whom death cuts short almost at the outset of their career. He began his musical education under Louis Kohler, one of the most excellent of teachers, of whom he took lessons on the pianoforte and in harmony. For his general education he went to the University of Konigsberg, and, after graduating in 1858, went to Berlin, where he entered Stern's Music School, studying the pianoforte under von Biilow and composition under Hugo Ulrich. In 1863 he succeeded Theo- dor Kirchner as organist at Winterthur in Switzerland ; here he also estab lished himself as music-teacher, founded a singing society, and conducted an orchestra of amateur players. In 1867 he moved to Zurich, not giving up his Winterthur engagements, however. It was the exertion of constantly travelling between these two places, added to pretty hard work in both of them, that, more than anything else, broke down his never robust constitu- tion. In 1870 he settled in Hottingen, where he died of consumption just as he was beginning to win general recognition as a composer. Like Norbert Burgmiiller (who also died young), Goetz was one of the most gifted and most legitimate followers of Mendelssohn and Schumann. His talent was unmistakable, and his musical education especially fine and thorough. He was essentially a romanticist, with all his classical leanings, though he never sympathized to any notable extent with the then rising " future " party in music. His list of works is short, his best known com- positions being his symphony in F major and the opera der Widerspenstigen ZahtnUng {Taming of the Shrew, after Shakspere), which met with the most brilliant success on its first production in Mannheim on October 11, 1874, Horsford's Acid Phosphate Is the most effective and agreeable remedy in existence for preventing in- digestion, and relieving those diseases arising from a disordered stomach. " Dr. W. W. Gardner, Springfield, Mass., says : I value it as an excel- lent preventive of indigestion, and a pleasant acidulated drink when properly diluted with water, and sweetened." Descriptive pamphlet free on application to Rumford Chemical Works, - Providence, M.I, BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES AND IMITATIONS. For sale by all Druggists. (77) } : l^ALLARD LABI6S' T^IL0R. 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Flash-light Pictures made at Residences ARTISTIC REPAIRS A SPECIALTY. WEDDING PARTIES, BOWS REHAIRED. FANCY DRESS PARTIES. DINNER PARTIES. Music Hall Building, Room 7, - - BOSTON. Repairer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (78) : and soon passed on to most of the principal lyric stages in Germany, besides being given in England and the United States. Besides these works are to be mentioned a second opera, Francesca da Rimini (posthumous, the third act finished by Ernst Frank), several compositions for voices and orchestra, and some chamber music. Symphony in F major, Op. 9 Hermann Goetz. This symphony is preceded on the fly-leaf of the score by the following motto : — In des Herzens heilig stille Raume Musst du fliehen aus des Lebens Drang. Schiller. " Which may be rendered into English prose as follows : Into the quiet, sacred spaces of the heart must thou flee from the stress of life." The first movement {Allegro moderato, in F major) begins serenely, the horns and clarinets calling to and answering one another in syncopated notes, forming the full chord of F over an ascending arpeggio accompani- ment in triplets in the violas and second violins. After four measures of this soft preluding, the theme enters in the 'celli and basses, soon strength- ened by the bassoons and horns, against a melodious counter-theme, now in the violins, now in the wind instruments. The violins take it up next, in unison and octaves, and develop it at some length, the rhythm growing more and more animated the while : soon, after some brilliant ascending scale-passages, comes a sudden lull with a modulation to A major, — just such a change as might be expected to introduce the second theme. The New England Conservatory of jnuslG (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 comprehensive 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 Associatkd DEPARTMENTS of Music, Elocution, Fine Arts, and Modern Languages, together with their liberal courses of Free Collateral Advantages, provide the most ample means for acquiring a thorough and complete knowledge of one or all of these subjects at comparatively small cost. Mons. Alexandre Guilmant, addressing the Faculty and students on the occasion of his recent visit to the Conservatory, said " It is a great pleasure to me to meet you together. This Conservatory is a great astonishment to me. I had never dreamed of so lar^e a one in America. I feel it is also equally thorough. It reminds me of the Paris Conservatoire, and J feel that it is doing similar work. I feel the greatest interest in your work, and am sure the Conservatory is on a most earnest and solid basis. I wish it all prosperity." Send for calendar, or call at the institution. F. W. HALE, General Manager. Franklin Square, Boston, Mass. * huring last season the following members of the Faculty appeared as soloists in these concerts: Mi»8 Louise A. Leimer, Messrs. Heinrich Meyn, George M. Nowell, Carl Stasny, and Leo Schulz. (79) ; flutes and oboe begin a blithe, twittering melody, which, in spite of its evi- dent relationship to what has just gone before, one is tempted to think the second theme. But no : the first theme still persists, and is still further developed with much brilliant figuration and many rhythmic devices. After a while more another lull comes ; but the first theme still holds its own in a little hushed passage such as one often finds at the entrance of the con- clusion-theme of symphonic first movements. In fact, this quiet little pas- sage does play something of the role of conclusion-theme, for it leads di- rectly to the double-dotted double-bar or " repeat,"— the first part of the movement is at an end, and there has been no second theme, no real con- clusion-theme, nothing but a long development of the first theme, an almost unheard-of form for the first part of the first movement of a symphony.

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