Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 29,1909
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CARNEGIE HALL - - NEW YORK Twenty-fourth Season in New York MAX FIEDLER, Conductor programmeb nf % FOURTH CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24 AT 8.15 AND THE FOURTH MATINEE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 26 AT 2.30 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1909 BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER Mme. TERESA CARRENO On her tour this season will use exclusively ^** Piano. THE JOHN CHURCH CO., 37 West 33d Street New York City 1 Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Twenty- linth Season, 1909-1910 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor First Violins. Hess, Willy Roth, O. Hoffmann, J. Krafift, W. Concertmaster. Kuntz, D. Fiedler, E. Theodorowica, J. Noack, S. 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. Marble, E. Eichler, J. Tischer-Zeitz, H. Kuntz, A. Goldstein, H. Goldstein, S. Kurth, R. Werner, H. Violas. Fenr, E. Heindl, H. Rennert, B. Kolster, A. Zahn, F. Gietzen, A. Hoyer, H. Kluge, M. Forster, E. Kautzenbach, W Violoncellos. Warnke, H. Nagel, R. Barth, C. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Keller, J. Kautzenbach, A. Nast, L. Hadley, A. Smalley, R. Basses. Keller, K. Agnesy, K. Seydel, T. Ludwig, O. Gerhardt, G. Kunze, M. 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-Bassoon. Mueller, F. Stumpf, K. Helleberg, J. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones Tuba. Hess, M. Wendler, G. Kloepfel, L. Hampe, C. Lorenz, O Lorbeer, H. Gebhardt, W. Mann, J. Mausebach, A. Hain, F. Hackebarth, A. Heim, G. Kenfield, L. Phair, J. Schumann, C. Merrill, C. Hasp. Tympani. Percussion. SchuScker, H, Rettberg, A. Dworak, J. Senia, T. Kandler, F. Ludwig, C. Burkhardt, H. Librarian. Sauerquell, J. 3 iS fWAA HA ft* *A A* ft* »m *A ll« AA W! fUMUIJUl flAMM A* MMMMMb Perfection in Piano Making THE Qaarter Grand Style V, in figured Mahogany, price $650 It is but FIVE FEET LONG and in Tonal Proportions a Masterpiece of piano building. It is Cnickering & Sons most recent triumph, the exponent of EIGHTY-SEVEN YEARS experience m artistic piano building, and the heir to all the qualities that the name of its makers implies. REPRESENTED BY JOHN WANAMAKER BROADWAY and 8th STREET. NEW YORK, N.Y. F w w ww w vw ww w wv w wmv w vw fcftf iai w* wire yyi w tru c " CARNEGIE HALL . NEW YORK Twenty-fourth Season in New York Twenty-ninth Season, 1909-1910 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor FOURTH CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Schubert Unfinished Symphony in B minor I. Allegro moderate II. Andante con moto. Brahms . Concerto in A minor for Violin and Violoncello, with Orchestra, Op. 102 I. Allegro. II. Andante. III. Vivace non troppo. Rachmaninoff . " The Island of the Dead," Symphonic Poem, for full orchestra, to the picture by A. B6cklin,Op. 29 " Wagner . Prelude to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg SOLOISTS Mr. WILLY HESS Mr. ALWIN SCHROEDER There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the concerto 5 "upright" GRAND Size 4 feet 6 inches MAHOGANY CASE- $ BEAUTIFULLY VENEERED 550 fcfci ^QnG% THE WORLD'S BEST PIANO is the one piano not only abreast of the times, but today, more than ever, is solely and purely representative of faultless con- struction, exceptional durability and that tonal sublimity that cannot be successfully imitated or equalled. REPRESENTED BY WM. KNABE & CO. 439 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY Unfinished Symphony* in B minor ....... , Franz Schubert (Born at Lichtenthal, near Vienna, January 31, 1797; died at Vienna, November 19, 1828.) Two brothers, Anselm and Joseph Hiittenbrenner, were fond of Schubert. Their home was in Graz, Styria, but they were living at Vienna. Anselm was a musician; Joseph was in a government office. Anselm took Schubert to call on Beethoven, and there is a story that the sick man said, "You Anselm, have my mind; but Franz has my soul." Anselm closed the eyes of Beethoven in death. These brothers were constant in endeavor to make Schubert known. Anselm went so far as to publish a set of " Erl King Waltzes," and assisted in putting Schubert's opera, "Alfonso and Estrella" (1822) in rehearsal at Graz, where it would have been performed if the score had not been too difficult for the orchestra. In 1822 Schubert was elected an honorary member of musical societies of Linz and Graz. In return for the compliment from Graz, he began the Symphony in B minor, No. 3 (October 30, 1822). He finished the Allegro and the Andante, and he wrote nine measures of the Scherzo. Schubert visited Graz in 1827. but neither there nor elsewhere did he ever hear his unfinished work. Anselm Hiittenbrenner went back to his home about 1820, and it was during a visit to Vienna that he saw Beethoven dying. Joseph remained at Vienna, and in i860 he wrote from the office of the Minister of the Interior a singular letter to Johann Herbeck, who then conducted the concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. He begged permission to sing in the concerts as a member of the society, and urged him to look over symphonies, overtures, songs, quartets, choruses, by Anselm. He added, toward the end of the letter: "He [Anselm] has a treasure in Schubert's B minor symphony, which we put on a level with the great symphony in C, his instrumental swan- song, and any one of the symphonies by Beethoven." Herbeck was inactive and silent for five years, although several times he visited Graz. Perhaps he was afraid that, if the manuscript came to light, he could not gain possession of it and the symphony like the one in C, would be produced elsewhere than at Vienna. 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In a letter to the makers Enrico Caruso refers enthusiastically to the "superb and unique font quality of The Hardman.''* Hardman Pianos may be purchased on easy monthly payments. The highest possible allowance for your old piano. Send for beautifully illustrated book of " Period " designs. Hardman, Peck & Co, Established 1842 138 Fifth Avenue, New York Joseph insisted on this condition (see "Johann Herbeck," by h. Her- beck, Vienna, 1885, p. 165). In 1865 Herbeck was obliged to journey with his sister-in-law, who sought health. They stopped in Graz, and on May 1 he went to Ober- Andritz, where the old and tired Anselm, in a hidden, little one-story cottage, was awaiting death. Herbeck sat down in a humble inn. He talked with the landlord, who told him that Anselm was in the habit of breakfasting there. While they were talking, Anselm appeared. After a few words Herbeck said, "I am here to ask permission to pro- duce one of your works at Vienna." The old man brightened, his indifference dropped from him, and after breakfast he took him to his home. The work-room was stuffed with yellow and dusty papers, all in confusion. Anselm showed his own manuscripts, and finally Herbeck chose one of the ten overtures for performance. "It is my purpose," he said, "to bring forward three contemporaries, Schubert, Hiittenbrenner, and Lachner, in one concert before the Viennese public. It would naturally be very appropriate to represent Schubert by a new work." "Oh, I have still a" lot of things by Schubert," answered the old man; and he pulled a mass of papers out of an old-fashioned chest. Herbeck immediately saw on the cover of a manuscript "Sym- phonie in H moll," in Schubert's handwriting. Herbeck looked the symphony over. "This would do. Will you let me have it copied immediately at my cost?" "There is no hurry," answered Anselm, "take it with you." The symphony was first played at a Gesellschaft concert, Vienna, December —17, 1865, under Herbeck's direction. The program was as follows : Overture in C minor (new) Huttenbrenner Symphonie in B minor Schubert ', <MS «-J aSS, | ** 3. Presto vivace, D major Old German Songs, unaccompanied 1. Liebesklage j Herbgck 2. Jagergluck ) (First time.) .Symphony in A Mendelssohn G. SCHIRMER, 35 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK JUST PUBLISHED A Guide to the Opera THE VOICE ELEKTRA Its Production, Care and Preservation BY BY RICHARD STRAUSS. FRANK E. MILLER, M.D. With Musical Examples from the Score Pp.196. Cloth. Net $1.25 BY Dr. Frank Miller, the author of this book, is one ERNEST HUTCHESON of the leading New York specialists on throat, nose and ear. He numbers many singers among his Pp.61.