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Boxes, #18. Orders by mail accom- panied by check or money order sent to R. C. Heck, Carnegie Hall, will be rilled in the order received, and seats will be assigned as near as possible to location desired. Public sale opens Monday, December 14, at Carnegie Hall, Ditson's, and at principal hotels. BOStOn BAPTIST TEMPLE, 'f Third Ave* and Schermerhorn St., Symphony f Brooklyn. ^v f— 4- Twenty-third Season, 1903-1904. \^J jf^, fj W^ [ Tel. Sixteenth Season in Brooklyn. Mr. WILHELM GERICKE, Conductor. SECOND CONCERT, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER U, AT 8.J5 PRECISELY. PROGRAMME. Beethoven ..... Symphony in D major, No. 2, Op. 36 I. Adagio; Allegro con brio. II. Larghetto. III. Scherzo : Allegro ; Trio. IV. Allegro molto. Huss . Concerto in B major, for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 10 I. Allegro maestoso. II. Andante con sentimento. III. Allegro vivace. (First time at these concerts.) " Smetana . Symphonic Poem, Vysehrad" (No. 1 of the Cycle, "My Country") Brahms . Academic Overture, Op. 80 SOLOIST: Miss ADELE AUS DER OHE. The Pianoforte is a Steinway. There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the pianoforte concerto. 3 A PIONEER. WORK Harmonic Analysis A COURSE IN THE ANALYSIS OF THE CHORDS AND OF THE NON- HARMONIC TONES TO BE FOUND IN MUSIC, CLASSIC AND MODERN By BENJAMIN CUTTER PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.25 HPHIS book is designed for those who have studied Harmony and would apply it in their every-day musical life, in their playing and in their teaching. It is believed that by a careful study of this book one may learn not only to analyze and to understand anything in the way of harmony that he may chance to meet in musical literature, classical or modern, but — what is far more important — through his heightened powers of comprehension he may be enabled to hear with greater understanding\ to read at sight with more facility, and to play and sing zvith more intelligence. How to Study Kreutzer By BENJAMIN CUTTER A HANDBOOK FOR THE USE OF VIOLIN TEACHERS AND VIOLIN STUDENTS HPHIS Work presents, in the clearest manner, the principles which should govern the student in his efforts to master the Kreutzer studies — those principles which the teacher ex- presses orally in the lesson-room and which are here collected in' convenient form for reference and confirmation. Kach study is taken up separately, and in its order ; its technical uses explained, and the method of overcoming its difficulties indicated. PRICE, POST-PAID, (CLOTH-GILT), 75 CENTS OLIVER DITSON COMPANY V V BOSTON CHAS. H. DITSON &. CO., New York J. E. DITSON &. CO., Philadelphia Symphony in D major, No. 2, Op. 36. Ludwig van Beethoybn. (Born at Bonn, Dec. 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.) In 1 801 Beethoven's deafness, which had begun with a roaring in his ears, grew on him. He suffered also from frightful colic. He consulted physician after physician. He tried oil of almonds, cold baths and hot baths, pills and herbs and blisters. He was curious about galvanic " remedies, and in his distress he wrote : I shall as far as possible defy my fate, although there must be moments when I shall be the most miserable of God's creatures. ... I will grapple with fate; it shall never pull me down." Dr. Schmidt sent him in 1802 to the little village of Heiligenstadt, where, as the story goes, the Emperor Protus planted the first vines of Noricum. There was a spring of mineral water, —a spring of marvellous virtues, —which had been blessed by Saint Severinus, who died in the village and gave the name by which it is known to-day. Beethoven's house was on a hill outside the village, isolated, with a view of the Danube valley. Here he lived for several months like a hermit. He saw only his physician and Ferdinand Ries, his pupil, who visited him occasionally. Nature and loneliness did not console Beethoven. It was at Heiligen- stadt that he wrote the document known as "Beethoven's will," which, addressed to his "brothers, Carl, Beethoven," drips yew-like melancholy. In this condition of gloom and despair, Beethoven wrote his second symphony, which is full of innocent pleasure, frank gayety, "pleasing A NEW SERIES OF NEW AND ORIGINAL CHAMBER MUSIC BY VELL-KNOWN COMPOSERS Arranged for various combinations of instruments. Used in all the leading Colleges and Academies in England Each Number, Price 50 Cents* Fifty-four Numbers in All. Send for Lists. Boosey & Company, 9 East \ 7th St., New York badinage." As Berlioz says: "The first Allegro that follows the admi- " rable Adagio is of headlong dash. The Andante —Berlioz refers to the Larghetto— "is not treated in the manner of that in the First Symphony. The theme is not worked in canonic imitation, but a frank, pure song, exposed at first by the strings, then ornamented with rare elegance by means of delicate figures, whose character never strays far from the sen- timent of tenderness that is the distinctive feature of the chief thematic idea. There is a ravishing portrayal of innocent pleasure, which is scarcely shadowed by a few moments of melancholy. The Scherzo is as frankly gay in his capricious fancy as the Iyarghetto has been wholly calm and happy, because everything is smiling in this symphony." How is it then with those who insist that music always reflects the mental condition of the composer? In a sketch-book that is dated 1 801-1802 the theme of the Larghetto appears as given to the horns. The Symphony in D was first performed at a concert given by Beet- hoven at the Theater an der Wien, April 5, 1803. The other numbers of the programme were his oratorio, "Christus am Oelberge," First Sym- phony, Concerto in C minor for piano and orchestra. Certain pieces that had been rehearsed were omitted, that the concert might not be too long. The prices of admission were raised; some were doubled; the prices of the reserved seats were tripled. The receipts amounted to 1,800 gulden. The concert began at six o'clock. The rehearsal, which began at 8 a.m., was most unsatisfactory until Prince Karl Lich- nowsky ordered cold meats, bread and butter, and wine to be brought in large baskets. THE FOUNDATION OF THE PIANO is a solid iron frame to support the twenty tons of strain from the strings, where other pianos have wood, which is affected by STECK weather. That foundation gives, and preserves, its wonderful tone. It makes it stay in tune. It makes the superior workmanship and materials worth while. It makes permanent the benefits of our forty-seven years of expe- rience. It makes it materially better than any other piano, and has won its title- "THE OLD RELIABLE" A catalogue for the asking. GEORGE STECK & CO., 136 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK PIANOS The reviews of the new works were few and cool. One critic de- clared in the Zeitung fur die elegante Welt that the First Symphony was superior to the Second, because the First was written throughout with more spontaneity and ease, while the attempt in the Second to achieve something new and surprising was too evident. Another critic (1804) said many strange modulations should be cut out. Another, in 1805, wrote that the symphony was too long, the too frequent use of the wind instruments destroyed the effect of beautiful passages, the Finale was too bizarre, savage, noisy; but he admitted wealth of new thought, depth of knowledge, original expression, in this work of a powerful genius. Spazier likened the symphony unto a repulsive monster, a wounded serpent "which would not die, and in dying (in the Finale) still dealt vain but furious blows with his tail, stiffened by the last agony." The symphony was published in 1804. It was arranged by Ries as a trio for piano, violin, and 'cello, and Beethoven revised it; by Ebers as a nonet ; by Ries as a quintet, with double-bass, flute, and two horns ad lib.: by Hummel as a quartet for piano, flute, violin, and violoncello, The symphony is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons. 2 horns, 2 trumpets, kettledrums, and strings. It is dedicated to Prince von Lichnowsky. The first movement opens with a long introduction, Adagio molto, Jn&rmM Represents the Best HAZELTON, KRAKAUER, PIANOSANDERSON, CLARK Apollo Master Piano Player Our Concert Grand Apollo plays every note of 7^ oc- tave piano, 23 more, notes than any otherjplayer. 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