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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 27,1907-1908, Trip ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA Twenty-third Season in Philadelphia DR. KARL MUCK, Conductor Programme nf % FIRST CONCERT WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4 AT 8.15 PRECISELY PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER Piano. 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 THE JOHN CHURCH COMPANY, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL TWENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1907-1908 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor First Violins. Wendling, Carl, Roth, O. Hoffmann, J. Krafft, W. Concert-maste7\ Kuntz, D. Fiedler, E. Theodorowicz, J. Czerwonky, R. Mahn, F. Eichheim, H. Bak, A. Mullaly, J. Strube, G. Rissland, K. Ribarsch, A. Traupe, W. Second Violins. Barleben, K. Akeroyd, J. Fiedler, B. Berger, H. Fiumara, P. Currier, F. Rennert, B. Eichler, J. Tischer-Zeitz, H. Kuntz, A. Swornsbourne, W. Goldstein, S. Kurth, R. Goldstein. H. Violas. Ferir, E. Heindl, H. Zahn, F.1 Kolster, A. Krauss, H. Scheurer, K. Hoyer, H. Kluge, M. Sauer, G. Gietzen, A. Violoncellos. Warnke, H. Nagel, R. Barth, C. Loeffler, E. Heberlein, H. Keller, J. Kautzenbach, A. Nast, L. Hadley, A. Smalley, R. Basses. Keller, K. Agnesy, K. Seydel, T. Elkind, S. Gerhardt, G. Kunze, M. 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The music at the court was chiefly chamber music, and here Bach passed happy years. The indefatigable Spitta was not able to find even a mention of Bach in the town records, except in a few notices scattered through the parish registers; but the ''Bach-Jahrbuch:" of" 1905 contains a learned and interesting essay on Bach's orchestra at Cothen and the instruments that survived the players. This essay is by Rudolf Bunge, Privy Councillor at Cothen. Spitta was unable to find any material for a description of the court orchestra and choir. We now know the names of the musicians at the court and what salaries were paid* Thus Bach as chapel-master received thirty-three thalers- and twelve groschen a month. The term "suite" was not given by Bach to the four compositions that now are so named,—the suites in C major, B minor, and two in D major. He used the word "ouverture." The separate dances of old German suites were called "Parties/^ ''Partheyen." 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The overture was followed by airs of dances which were then popular or fashionable. No wonder that Bach, whose father, grandfather, and uncles had all been town-pipers and given up to this species of music, was drawn toward this form of composition. The Suite in D major was composed originally for three trumpets, two oboes, kettledrums, first and second violins, violas, and basso continue* Three or four manuscripts were consulted by the editors for the Bach Society, who preferred the voice parts formerly in the Bach archives at Hamburg and now in the Royal Library at Berlin. The version used generally in concert halls to-day was prepared by Ferdinand David for performance in the Gewandhaus, and it was published in 1866.
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