Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 30,1910-1911, Trip
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA Twenty- sixth Season in Philadelphia MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Programme of % Fifth and Last Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 20 AT 8.15 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER WM. L. WHITNEY International School for Vocalists BOSTON NEW YORK SYMPHONY CHAMBERS 134 CARNEGIE HALL 246 HUNTINGTON AVE. CORNER OF 57th AND 7th AVE. PORTLAND HARTFORD Y. M. C. A. BUILDING HARTFORD SCHOOL OF MUSIC CONGRESS SQUARE 8 SPRING STREET Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Thirtieth Season, 1910-1911 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Violins. Witek, A., Roth, 0. Hoffmann, J. Theodorowicz, J. Concert-master. Kuntz, D. Krafft, F. W. Mahn, F. Noack, S. Strube, G. Rissland, K Ribarsch, A, Traupe, W. Eichheim, H. Bak, A. Mullaly, J. Goldstein, H. Barleben, K. Akeroyd, J. Fiedler, B. Berger, H. Fiumara, P. Currier, F. Marble, E. Eichier, J. Tischer-Zeitz. H. Werner, H. Fabrizio, C. Goldstein, S. Kurth, R. Griinberg, M. Violas. Ferir, E. Heindl, H. Rennert, B. Kolster, A. VanWynbergen, C Gietzen, A. Hoyer, H. Kluge, M. Forster, E. Kautzenbach, W. Violoncellos. Schroeder, A. Keller, J. Barth, C. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Warnke, H. Nagel, R. Nast, L. Hadley, i \. Smalley, R. Basses. Kunze, M. Agnesy, K. Seydel, T. Ludwig, 0. Gerhardt, G. Jaeger, A. Huber, E. Schurig, R. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Maquarre, A. Longy, G. Grisez, G. Sadony, P. Brooke, A. Lenom, C. Mimart, P. Mueller, E. Battles, A. Sautet, A. Vannini, A. Regestein, E. Fox, P. English Horn. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoons. Mueller, F. Stumpf, K. Helleberg, J. M os bach. J, Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Tuba. Hess, M. Wendler, G. Kloepfel, L. Hampe, C Lorenz, 0. Lorbeer, H. Gebhardt, W. Mann, J. Mausebach Hain, F. Hackebarth, A. Heim, G. Kenfield, L Phair, J. Schumann, C. Merrill, C Harp. Tympani. Percussion. Schuecker, H. Neumann, S. Rettberg* A. Senia, T. Kandler, F. Zahn, F. Burkhardt, H. Organ. Librarian. 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Established 1854 BOSTON NEW YORK feU ACADEMY OF MUSIC . PHILADELPHIA Twenty-sixth Season in Philadelphia Thirtieth Season, 1910-1911 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor FIFTH AND LAST CONCERT MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 20 AT 8.J5 PROGRAMME Schubert Symphony in C major, No. 7 I. Andante ; Allegro ma non troppo. II. Andante con moto. III. Scherzo : Allegro vivace. Trio. IV. Finale : Allegro vivace. Saint-Saens . "The Drummer's Betrothed," Ballad of Victor Hugo, for Solo Voice and Orchestra, Op. 82 " Sibelius . Finlandia," Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Op. 26, No. 7 . " " " Wagner . Scene, Just God ! and Aria, My Life fades in its Blossom," from "Rienzi," Act III., No. 9 Tschaikowsky . Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3, in G major, Op. 55 SOLOIST Mme* KIRKBY-LUNN There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony Tone, Technique and Temperament— all threefor me/" —Mischa Kidman. 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The Baldwin Company presents a permanent assurance that the instrument bearing its name must maintain its beauty of tone and action unalterable with time. A request to nearest agent will bring you the catalogue. We would be pleased to have you see and hear the Baldwin Piano at our store. Sole Representatives H. WEYMANN a SON JOJO CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. fcj Symphony in C major, No. 7 Franz Schubert (Born at Lichtenthal, Vienna, Jan. 31, 1797; died at Vienna, Nov. 19, 1828.) The manuscript of this symphony, numbered 7 in the Breitkopf & Hartel list and sometimes known as No. 10, bears the date March, 1828. It is said that Schubert gave the work to the Musikverein of Vienna for performance; that the parts were distributed; that it was even tried in rehearsal; that its length and difficulty were against it, and it was withdrawn on Schubert's own advice in favor of his earlier Symphony in C, No. 6 (written in 181 7). All this has been doubted; but the symphony is entered in the catalogue of the society under the year 1828, and the statements just quoted have been fully substantiated. Schubert said, when he gave the work to the Musikverein, that he was through with songs, and should henceforth confine himself to opera and symphony. It has been said that the first performance of the symphony was at Leipsic in 1839. This statement is not true. Schubert himself never heard the work; but it was performed at a concert of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna, December 14, 1828, and repeated March 12, 1829. It was then forgotten, until Schumann visited Vienna in 1838, and looked over the mass of manuscripts then in the possession of Schubert's brother Ferdinand. Schumann sent a transcript of the sym- phony to Mendelssohn for the Gewandhaus concerts, Leipsic. It was produced at the concert of March 21, 1839, under Mendelssohn's direc- tion, and repeated three times during the following season,—December 12, 1839, March 12 and April 3, 1840. Mendelssohn made some cuts in the work for these performances. The score and parts were pub- lished in January, 1850.* The first performance in Boston was at a concert, October 6, 1852, when the small orcliestra was led by Mr. Suck. We are told that on this occasion the first violins were increased to four, two extra 'cellos took * Hanslick says in "Geschichte des Concertwesens in Wien" (Vienna, 1869) that the sixth, not the ninth, symphony was performed at the concert in Vienna, December 14, 1828; that the ninth was first heard in Vienna in 1839, when only the first and second movements were played, and separated by an aria of Donizetti; that the first complete performance at Vienna was in 1850. Grove makes the same statement. But see Richard Heuberger's "Franz Schubert" (Berlin, 1902), p. 87. 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