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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON (S- MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES _, , ( Ticket Office, 1492 Telephones, ) ^^^^„ , ^^^^ j Administration Offices, 3200 | TWENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1907-1908 DR. KARL MUCK, Conductor Fourth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 1 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER 233 PlAHO. Used and indorsed by Reisenauer, Neitzel, Burmeister, Gabrilowitsch, Nordica, Campanari, Bispham, and many other noted artists, will be used by TERESA CARRENO during her tour of the United States this season. The Everett piano has been played recently under the baton of the following famous conductors Theodore Thomas Franz Kneisel Dr. Karl Muck Fritz Scheel Walter Damrosch Frank Damrosch Frederick Stock F. Van Der Stucken Wassily Safonoff Emil Oberhoffer Wilhelm Gericke Emil Paur Felix 'Weingartner REPRESENTED BY G. 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Bodily sufferings often obliged Bruckner to put aside his work, and death came before the Finale was shaped. Although sketches of this Finale are in existence, they are only faint indications of the composer's intentions. He is said to have remarked to friends that, if the three movements were performed after his death, his ' 'Te Deum"t might be added as a Finale. The manuscript of the Ninth Symphony is in the Court. Library at Vienna. We learn from it that the first movement was begun toward the end of April, 1891, and finished October 14, 1892. The Scherzo was completed on February 15, 1894, but the Trio was finished as early as February 27, 1893. The Adagio was completed October 31, 1894. The first performance was by the Vienna Academic Wagner Society and the Vienna Concert Society at Vienna, February 11, 1903. The conductor was Lowe, and as an act of piety Bruckner's "Te Deum" was performed as the Finale. The three movements were soon after- ward played in other German cities, as at Berlin by the Philharmonic, * Ferdinand Lowe, bom at Vienna, February 19, 1865, was taught at the Vienna Conservatory of Music by Bruckner and Dachs. He taught the pianoforte and also chorus singing at the Conservatory. In 1897-98 he was conductor of the Kaim Orchestra at Munich. In 1898 he was called to Vienna to assist at the Court Opera. He became in 1900 the conductor of the Gesellschafts concerts—he resigned this position in 1904—and conductor of the Concert Society Orchestra. He has edited several works of Bruckner, and he was a great friend of Hugo Wolf. t Bruckner's "Te Deum" was produced at Vienna in 1886. It was performed for the first time in the United States at St. Louis in December, 1891, on the occasion of the golden jubilee of Archbishop Kendrick. Joseph Otten conducted. It was performed at the Tenth Biennial Festival at Cincinnati, Theodore Thomas conductor. May 26, 1892. 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