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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 17, 1897-1898, Trip Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. EMIL PAUR, Conductor. Twelfth Season in New York. PROGRAMME OF THE SECOND CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 16, 1897, AT 8.15 PRECISELY. With Historical and Descriptive Notes by William F. Apthorp. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER. Steinway & Sons, Piano Manufacturers I BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS MAJESTY, WILLIAM II., EMPEROR OF GERMANY. THE ROYAL COURT OF PRUSSIA. His Majesty, FRANCIS JOSEPH, Emperor of Austria. HER MAJESTY, THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Their Royal Highnesses, THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. His Majesty, UMBERTO I., the King of Italy. Her Majesty, THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. also bestowed on our His Majesty, Emperor William II. of Germany, on June .3, 1893, granted to Eagle, III. Class, an honor never before I Mr. Wiluam Steinway the order of The Red manufacturer. celebrated composer Pale* The Royal Academy of St. Csecilia at Rome, Italy, founded by the institution. The following Mr. William Steinway an honorary member of that trina in ,584, has elected — diploma • of his : • the translation . v j „# merit in the domain or St. Ccecilia have, on account of his eminent The Roval Academy of Stein- Article I2 solernny decreed to recexveW.lharn niu c ancffn clnformifv to their Statutes. April i and in tne members Given at Rome, 3 , 1894, way into the number of their honorary found.ng of the society^ three hundred and tenth year from the Mart1no, President. Albx. Pansotti, Secretary. »• ** ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES MAILED FREE ON APPLICATION. STEINWAY & SONS, St., New York. Warerooms, Steinway Hall, 107-111 East 14th EUROPEAN DEPOTS : Portman Sq., W . £ondor Steinway Hall, ,5 «d -7 Lower Seymour St., Rosen-Strasse, 2 c-2 4, Hamburg,>'f°g™*'Germany. Steinway '8 Pianofabrik, St. Pauli. Neoe (2) " Boston METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, Symphony j; NEW YORK ? Seventeenth Season, 1897-98. Orchestra Twelfth Season in New York. Mr. EMIL PAUR, Conductor. SECOND CONCERT, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, AT 8.15 PRECISELY. PROGRAMME. Ludwig van Beethoven - - Symphony No. 5, in C minor, Op. 67 Born Dec. 16, 1770. Died March 26, 1827. - I. Allegro con brio (C minor) 2-4 II. Andante con moto (A-flat major) - 3-8 III. Allegro (C minor) - - - - - - 3-4 - - - - - Trio (C major) - . 3-4 IV. Allegro (C major) ------ 4.4 Gustav Strube Concerto for Violin in G major (MS.), Op. 13 (Cadenza by Mr. FRANZ KNEISEL.) I. Moderato (G major) -------- 3-4 Allegro non troppo, ma energico (G major) - - 3-4 II. Adagio, ma non troppo lento (B-flat major) - - 2-4 III. Finale : Allegro (G major) ------- 4-4 (First time in New York.) Richard Strauss Symphonic Poem, " Thus spake Zarathustra," Op. 30 (First time in New York.) Karl Maria von Weber - - "Invitation to the Dance," Op. 65 Arranged for Orchestra by FELIX WEINGARTNER. Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber Overture to " Carlo Broschi Soloist, Mr. FRANZ KNEISEL. (3) on December 16, probably . \x Beethoven was born at Bonn The family originally came 1770, and died in Vienna on March 26, 1827. Antwerp in from a village near Louvain, whence they moved to 1650. The family name was originally as we now know it, but underwent many changes,— Biethoffen, Biethofen, Biethoven, Bethoven, Betthoven, Bethof, Beethoven's father, Jean, and — until it at last returned to its first form. band of the Elector his grandfather, Ludwig, were musicians in the court Maria Magdalena (born Keverich), was of Cologne at Bonn ; his mother, of one I daughter of the head cook at Ehrenbreitstein. She was the widow Laym, or Leym, when she married Jean Beethoven on November 12, 1767. j children but as the first, Ludwig Maria, Ludwig was the second of seven ; family. began lived only six days, he was virtually the eldest of the He j his father's instruction old the study of music at the age of four, under ; Jean was a harsh teacher, but seemed quite to appreciate his son's talent. Pfeiffer, tenor I When the boy was nine, his father turned him over to one a was also taught at the Bonn opera, for his further musical education. He which he left, the ordinary branches and a little Latin at a public school, however, when he was thirteen. He studied the organ under van den Eeden, organist at the court chapel, and Latin, French, and Italian under one Zambona after leaving school. In 1781 (being then eleven) he began* taking lessons of Christian Gottlob Neefe, van den Eeden's successor. About the time of his leaving school he was up to playing most of Bach's Wohltempcrirtes Clavier and taking Neefe's place at the organ when required. without salary,— In 1783 he was appointed cembalist in the orchestra,— year he part of his functions being to conduct the opera orchestra. Next was appointed second organist, with a salary of 150 florins (about $63.30) that he took violin per annum. It was in the course of this year, 1784, Vienna, where lessons of Franz Ries. In 1787 he went for the first time to he stayed not above three months, and took some lessons of Mozart, who was highly delighted with his pupil. On his return to Bonn he made the acquaintance of von Breuning, to whose children he gave music lessons, cultivated. In he and in whose family his taste for literature was first 1788 entered the National-Theater as second viola in the orchestra. He was in his only remaining sister the most wretched circumstances : his mother and confirmed drunkard money was had died, and his father had become a ; to in and Josef scarce in the family. But hope was soon come ; 1790 1792 Haydn passed through Bonn on his way to and from London; on his by Beethoven. This second visit he heard and warmly praised a cantata reached the ears of the Elector, who had hitherto paid no attention to the young musician, but now determined that he should be sent to Vienna to in the Alservorstadt of study. In November, 1792, he was well settled Vienna, and immediately began studying under Haydn. The lessons were being the text-book. in strict counterpoint, Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum But Haydn was far too busy to give his promising young pupil all the with owr attention the latter wanted; Beethoven was not satisfied his Schenk progress, and soon began taking extra lessons secretly from Johann (4) ; In 1794, when Haydn went to England again, Beethoven continued his contrapuntal studies under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, and studied the violin under Ignaz Schuppanzigh ; he also benefited much by Salieri's advice in the matter of Italian vocal composition and by that of Aloys Forster in quartet writing. It is pretty evident that Haydn's apparent carelessness in conducting his theoretical studies came solely from a pressure of other work, for the elder composer's interest in his pupil was great ; he soon considered him up to the greatest undertakings, and in a manner voluntarily transferred his own mantle to the younger man's shoulders. Mozait had died a year before he came to Vienna. This left the field tolerably open to him, and he had for the most part only the Italians to compete with. In 1794 Beethoven's allowance from the Elector was stopped, and he had henceforth nothing but his own resources to look to for support. But he had excellent intro- ductions to very influential people, and the time of his arrival in the Aus- trian capital was fortunate. He first became known in musical circles as a pianist,— at the musical parties of Prince von Licknowsky and Baron von Swieten ; but his compositions soon began to win him fame, if rather slowly at first and in the face of much critical opposition. On March 29, 1795, he made his first public appearance as a pianist with his own concerto in C major, at the annual concert at the Burg-Theater for the benefit of the widows' fund of the Artists' Society. He soon made some successful trips to Prag and even to Berlin, where he played at court and at the Sing- Akademie. Up to 1800 his compositions in Vienna had been mostly chamber music but in this year his first symphony, in C major, appeared. In 1801 his deafness, symptoms of which had shown themselves as early as 1798, began to be seriously troublesome. His productiveness went on increasing steadily until his death ; and, though he wrote slowly and with considerable difficulty, — his habit of self-criticism was insatiable, — he was certainly one of the most prolific of great composers. Few musicians have ever held the Hwdacfc Horsford's Acid Phosphate. Headache may arise from a disordered state of the stomach, or it may have a ner- vous origin. The Acid Phosphate by its action in promoting digestion, and as a nerve food, tends to prevent and alleviate the headache arising from either cause. Dr. F. A. Roberts, Waterville, Me., says: " Have found it of great benefit in nervous headache, nervous dyspepsia and neuralgia; and think it is giving great satisfaction when it is thoroughly tried." Descriptive pamphlet sent free on application to Rumford Chemical Works, » Providence, R.I. BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTES AND IMITATIONS. For sale by all Druggists. (5) ; position anywhere that Beethoven did in Vienna ; it was peculiar to unique- ness ! Although very brusque in his manners and quick-tempered, won- drously untidy in his dress (albeit he carried personal cleanliness to the finical pitch), and given to all sorts of rudeness in behavior, he had a decided taste for refined and cultivated society ; and this taste he was allowed to indulge to the top of his bent.
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