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MUSIC HALL, BALTIMORE, Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. EMIL PAUR, Conductor. Seventeenth Season, 1897-98. PROGRAMME OF THE SECOND CONCERT WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, AT 8.15 PRECISELY. With Historical and Descriptive Notes by William F. Apthorp. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS. MANAGER. Steinway & Sons, Piano Manufacturers 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, .893, to a Eagle, III. Class, an honor never before pranted Mr. WILLIAM Steinway the order of The Red manufacturer. celebrated composer Pales- The Royal Academy of St. Csecilia at Rome, Italy, founded by the institute. 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Orchestra Thirteenth Season in Baltimore. Mr. EMIL PAUR, Conductor. SECOND CONCERT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, AT 8.15 PRECISELY. PROGRAMME. foachim Raff - Symphony No. 3, in F major, "In the Woods," Op. 153 PART I. IN THE DAYTIME. Impressions and Sensations : Allegro (P major) - 3-4 PART II. AT TWILIGHT. (a) - Revery : Largo (A-flat major) 2-4 (b) Dance of Dryads : Allegro assal (D minor) - 3-4 Poco meno mosso (A maior) 3-4 PART III. AT NIGHT. Silent rustling of the woods at night. Entrance and exit of the Wild Hunt with Prau Holle (Hulda) and Wotan. Daybreak: Allegro (P major) 4-4 lobert Schumann - Concerto for Pianoforte, in A minor, Op. 54 I. Allegro affettuoso (A minor) - - - 4-4 II. Intermezzo : Andantino grazioso (P major) 2-4 III. Allegro vivace (A major) - 3-4 Sdvard Hagerup Grieg Suite, " Peer Gynt," Op. 46 Daybreak. The Death of Aase. Anitra's Dance. The Hall of the Mountain King. The Imps are chasing " Peer Gynt." >aniel-Francois-Esprit Auber [Overture to " Carlo Broschi Soloist, Mr. RAFAEL JOSEFFY. The Pianoforte is a Steinway. (3) Zurich, on Joseph Joachim Raff was born at Lachen, on the Lake of 1882. His education was May 27, 1822, and died in Berlin on June 26, he afterwards entered the begun at Wiesenstetten, in Wurtemberg; and prizes in German, Latin, and Jesuit Lyceum at Schwyz, where he won soon com- mathematics. He also studied music, but extreme poverty schoolmaster, but still pelled him to abandon taking lessons ; he turned considerable continued studying music without a teacher, and made composition. In progress on the pianoforte and violin, and also in 1843, compositions to being twenty-one years old, he sent some of his MS. of introduction to Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig, who gave him a letter led to the publication of some of the firm of Breitkopf & Hartel ; this to be an indefatigable pro- his works. From that time Raff continued more but for some time ; ducer up to his death. His poverty continued help young talent, became Liszt, always on the alert to recognize and a concert tour. On interested in him, and invited him to join him on and the latter invited him this trip Raff met Mendelssohn in Cologne, guidance so he severed his con- to come to Leipzig to study under his ; opportunity. This was nection with Liszt to take advantage of this new brought the scheme to naught; in 1846, and Mendelssohn's sudden death supported himself for a while Raff had to stay on in Cologne, where he criticisms for the press. by giving lessons, composing, and writing musical the firm of Mechetti, Again Liszt tried to help him, and introduced him to Raff was about to enter into remunerative rela- in Vienna ; but just as the head of the firm, died. Raff tions with the house, Mechetti himself, them partly at home, partly in had to return to his studies, pursuing with von Billow, who added Stuttgart, where by good luck he fell in playing his Conzertstiick in greatly to his reputation as a composer by as to be constantly near Liszt, public. In 1850 Raff went to Weimar so he had a profound admiration. Here for whom and whose art tendencies Konig Alfred, which had been given he worked over the score of an opera, brought out in its remodelled shape in Weimar in Stuttgart, and was soon betrothed to Doris Genast (the with flattering success. He also became Genast), whom he followed to Wies- actress, daughter of the manager in 1859. In Wiesbaden he achieved baden 'in 1856, and finally married teacher; his reputation as a composer great popularity as a pianoforte symphony, An das Vaterland, opus was also growing. In 1863 his first der Musikfreunde in Vienna, 06 won the prize offered by the Gesellschaft Kobold, was produced in Weimar. and in 1870 his second opera, Dame Hoch's Conservatorium in Frankfort In 1877 he was made director of a/M. (4) : Raff was indubitably one of those geniuses to whom almost constant, and at times extreme, poverty was a real and lasting evil. He was a man of the highest and, for his time, somewhat new aims in art; notwith- standing his rather fragmentary professional education, he was con- spicuously a master of the technique of composition,— in fact, very few of his contemporaries possessed his enormous facility in conquering contrapuntal difficulties, nor his often astonishing ease of style. But, unlike many another man, and very unfortunately for his genius, he found composing a never-failing, if not particularly rich, source of income; he was much in demand by eager publishers who wanted salable music, and paid him, upon the whole, about what it was worth. His enormous productivity (his works reach to opus 216) is chiefly to be explained by this ; for the larger part of his works are mere pot-boilers, rapidly and carelessly written for the market. This easy production seems to have become an unconquerable habit with him ; and he seldom succeeded in quite throwing off his carelessness, even when working at the most serious tasks. He was a good deal of a pioneer in the modern direction, although he held fast to a certain extent to classical forms, and was very severely criticised during the earlier part of his career; he felt that his critics failed to comprehend his artistic point of view, and probably paid less attention to criticism than he ought; certainly, one can not but feel that he was habitually too careless in the matter of self-criticism. His brilliancy of style too often sinks toward the trivial, and his warmth of expression frequently seems too purely theatrical. For a man of his con- spicuous mastery in the matter of contrapuntal technique, he was singularly deficient in power of sustained musical development ; his Ikadafc 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 think it is " Have found it of great benefit in nervous headache, nervous dyspepsia and neuralgia; and 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. 14 second parts," the working-out, in his larger symphonic movements are not in general what is best in them. But he was a man of truly poetic nature, of warm and genial feeling, and was doubtless more profoundly in earnest than he often seemed to be. He was a real force in his day, and his influence upon German music and musical thought was conspicuous. He stood well in the front rank of composers of his time. Of his works, the Lenore symphony is probably the most widely popular, though the Im Walde is most admired by musicians. Symphony No. 3, in F major, "In the Woods," Opus 153. Joachim Raff. This symphony, like Beethoven's Pastoral, verges on the confines of pure symphonic writing, closely approaching the domain of " program- music." Yet, descriptive and picturesquely suggestive as much of it isy it never quite becomes pure " program-music." Indeed, it adheres so closely to the form of the symphony that one of the earliest criticisms on it in Germany was to the effect that, in the last movement (where there is a famous suggestion of daybreak), " the composer, out of deference to the symphonic form, had made the sun rise twice on the same morning." • SHEET MUSIC • Largest and Most Complete Selection in the South.