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GREW WALTER TUFTS 8 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephones \ Ticket Office ) d id i^qo """ ^^^ **^^ Branch Exchange ( Administration Offices \ THIRTY-SEVENTH SEASON. 1 91 7-1 91 Twemty-ifoiLiirtli • fa 1\ T^ A tterim©©!! aed ^¥eiiii Concerts WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 3 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING. MAY 4 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS. MANAGER 1445 FROM the very beginning of a musical education, nothing is so important as a correct appreciation of tone. Hence the child should receive its early impressions from a Steinway Piano. The exquisite Steinway tone is recognized as ideal, and it has made this instrument world- famous. Superior craftsmanship builds the Steinway for lifetime usage, and all the strain of "prac- tice years" does not make its action uneven or lessen its sweet- ness and resonance of tone. Under these circumstances, no other instrument is "good enough to begin on." Consider, too, that a Steinway costs but little more than an ordinary "good" piano. 1446 Violins. Witek, A. Concert-master. , Ji7^AMPICO iiiis Von3er->\'or^in<^ AMPICO in iixQ rcpro^ucGs ine mrillin^ pGrprmancGs oj S^odo>iVsni(, iAisoni, JvamDoiir^, (Jmstein, Jjau<?r and scores or omers c^iVcs us ioSax|, and pre- serVcs jor juiurc ^Gneraiions oj music loVers all me po>J^er and DGauii/ of mo inicrpreiaiions of I eminQni iiVincf ariisis. AMPICO RECITALS arQ£Q0 dai/i/ in Me CHICKERING WAREROOA4S 169 TREAVONT ST., BOSTON /o \^/iic£ t/ou are cordia//U ini'ited. IIIIPIH^^^^^^^^^^ Ililllllllliil llil'l THIRTY-SEVENTH SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTEEN AND EIGHTEEN Twenty-fourth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 3, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 4, at 8 o'clock Beethoven . Symphony No. 3, in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 I. Allegro con brio. II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace; Trio. IV. Finale : Allegro molto. Bach .... Prelude, Adagio, and Gavotte in Rondo Form (arranged for strings by Sigismund Bachrich) Berlioz . Overture to the Opera "Benvenuto Cellini," Op. 23 ERNST SCHMIDT, Conductor There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony The ladies of the audience are earnestly requested not to put on hats before the end of a number. The doors oj the hall will be closed during the perjormance oj each number OH the programme. Tliose who wish to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval between the numbers. Gty of Boston. Revised Regulation of August 5, 1 898.—Chapter 3. relating to the covering of the head in places of public amusement Every licensee shall not. in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering witliout projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. CALVIN. City Clerk 1449 L. P. Holl imder m mim. A nnounce BEGINNING MONDAY. MAY 6th THEIR SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE of WOMEN'S GOWNS, SUITS, COATS, WAISTS, MILLINERY. UNDERWEAR MISSES' and CHILDREN'S CLOTHING BOYLSTON STREET AND PARK SQUARE, BOSTON Senr^lf.Jiilljer PIANOFORTES 395BoylstonSt. Boston 1450 " Symphony No. 3, in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55. LuDwiG van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.) Anton Schindler wrote in his Life of Beethoven (Miinster, 1840): "First in the fall of 1802 was his [Beethoven's] mental condition so much bettered that he could take hold afresh of his long-formulated plan and make some progress : to pay homage with a great instrumental work to the hero of the time, Napoleon. Yet not until 1803 did he set himself seriously to this gigantic work, which we now know under the title of 'Sinphonia Eroica': on account of many interruptions it was not finished until the following year. The first idea of this sym- phony is said to have come from General Bernadotte, who was then French Ambassador at Vienna, and highly treasured Beethoven. I heard this from many friends of Beethoven. Count Moritz Lichnow- sky, who was often with Beethoven in the company of Bernadotte, . told me the same story." Schindler also wrote, with reference to the year 1823 : "The correspondence of the King of Sweden led Beethoven's memory back to the time when the King, then General Bernadotte, Ambassador of the French Republic, was at Vienna, and Beethoven had a lively recollection of the fact that Bernadotte indeed first awak- ened in him the idea of the 'Sinphonia Eroica.' JUST ISSUED s. A SONG OF LIBERTY (Poem by Frank L. Stanton) Soprano or Tenor Alto Bass PRICE 50 CENTS FAR AWA' (Poem by Robert Burns) Soprano or Tenor Alto or Baritone PRICE 50 CENTS Patriotic Chorases by Mrs, H, H. A, BEACH A SONG OF LIBERTY Mixed Voices, Men's Voices, Women's Voices (Trio) . Each .12 A HYMN OF FREEDOM (My Country, 'tis of Thee) Mixed Voices, Men's Voices, Women's Voices (Trio) Each .10 THE ART R P. SC MIDT CO. 120 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON, MASS. For Sale by all Music Dealers 1451 These statements are direct. Unfortunately, Schindler, in the third edition of his book, mentioned Beethoven as a visitor at the house of Bernadotte in 1798, repeated the statement that Bernadotte inspired the idea of the symphony, and added: "Not long afterward the idea blossomed into a deed"; he also laid stress on the fact that Beethoven was a stanch republican, and cited, in support of his admiration of Napoleon, passages from Beethoven's own copy of Schleiermacher's translation of Plato. Thayer admits that the thought of Napoleon may have influenced the form and the contents of the symphony; that the composer may have based a system of politics on Plato; "but," he adds, "Ber- nadotte had been long absent from Vienna before the Consular form of government was adopted at Paris, and before Schleiermacher's Plato was published in Berlin." The symphony was composed in 1803-04. The story is that the title-page of the manuscript bore the word "Buonaparte" and at the bottom of the page "Luigi van Beethoven"; "and not a word more," said Ries, who saw the manuscript. "I was the first," also said Ries, "who brought him the news that Bonaparte had had himself declared Emperor, whereat he broke out angrily: 'Then he's nothing but an ordinary man!' Now he'll trample on all the rights of men to serve his own ambition; he will put himself higher than all others and turn out a tyrant!'" Furthermore, there is the story that, when the death of Napoleon at St. Helena was announced, Beethoven exclaimed, "Did I not foresee the catastrophe when I wrote the funeral march in the 'Eroica'?" M. Vincent d'Indy in his remarkable Life of Beethoven argues against Schindler's theory that Beethoven wished to celebrate the French 5th season Write for illustrated circular 218 TREMONT ST., BOSTON, and FEDERAL HILL DEDHAM 1452 Mi OF UNUSUAL DISTINCTION A VERY ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION of new spring hats for suit, street, after- noon and sports wear at $lOoO0 to $45.00 EI Slavery Company ESTABLISHED IN 1867 Tremont Street, Boston 0pp. Boston Common The Store of Individuality 1453 Revolution en bloc. "C'^tait I'homme de Brumaire" that Beethoven honored by his dedication (pp. 79-82). The original score of the symphony was bought in 1827 by Joseph Dessauer for three florins, ten kreuzers, at auction in Vienna. On the title-page stands "Sinfonia grande." Two words -that should follow immediately were erased. One of these words is plainly "Bona- parte," and under his own name the composer wrote in large charac- ters with a lead-pencil: "Written on Bonaparte." ' Thus it appears there can be nothing in the statements that have come down from Czemy, Dr. Bart'oUni, and others: the first allegro describes a sea-fight; the funeral march is in memory of Nelson or General Abercrombie, etc. There can be no doubt that Napoleon, the young conqueror, the Consul, the enemy of kings, worked a spell over Beethoven, as over BerHoz, Hazlitt, Victor Hugo; for, according to W. E. Henley's paradox, although, as despot. Napoleon had "no love for. new ideas and no tolerance for intellectual independence," yet he was "the great First Cause of Romanticism." The first performance of the symphony was at a private concert at Prince Lobkowitz's in December, 1804. The composer conducted, and in the second half of the first allegro he brought the orchestra to grief, so that a fresh start was made.