James Leach of Rochdale Author(s): G. A. C. Source: The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 19, No. 422 (Apr. 1, 1878), pp. 226-227 Published by: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3357902 Accessed: 19-06-2016 23:26 UTC

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The performances of Italian Opera at the Imperial " Egmont " (Beethoven). Gewandhaus Concert (Feb. 28): establishment at Vienna commenced on the 19th ult., Friihlings-Fantasie (Gade); Serenade for String-Quartett under the conductorship of Signor Arditi. Among the (Volkmann); Concerto, D minor (Rubinstein) ; Symphony, eminent vocalists who will appear during the contem- A major (Mendelssohn). Gewandhaus Concert (March 7): plated twenty-four performances are mentioned, Mesdames Mass in C and Ninth Symphony (Beethoven). Conser- Nilsson, Trebelli, Salla, and MM. Faure, Masini, Cam- vatorium Concert (March 8): String Trio, G major (Beet- panini, and Behrens. hoven); Ditto, D minor (Mendelssohn); Violin Sonata At Bruxelles, the famous quartett-party led by Jean (Umlauft). Singakademie (March Io): Bach's" Magnificat" Becker have recently created much enthusiasm in a series and Mozart's " Requiem." of concerts, including works by Mozart, Beethoven, Raff, Berlin.-Symphonie-Kapelle (February 27): Overture Rubinstein, and Cherubini. At a concert given by the " La Clemenza di Tito" (Mozart); Symphony, D major Association des Artistes Musiciens, Wagner's Symphonic- (Mozart); Ocean Symphony (Rubinstein); Todtentinze poem, "Siegfried Idyl," was extremely well received, the (Heidingsfeld); Overture, " Heimkehr" (Mendelssohn). programme including also the same composer's " Wal- Singakademie (March 8) : Oratorio, " Christus " (Kiel). kilrenritt " (from the Tetralogy), arranged for the pianoforte Bilse Concert (March 6): Overture, "Beethoven" by Brassin, which was played with great brilliancy by (Lassen); Prelude, "Queen of Sheba" (Goldmark); M. Franz Rummel. "Tasso" (Liszt); Siegfried Idyl (Wagner), &c. Sym- Madame Adelina Patti is said to have received the sum phonie-Kapelle (March 6): Overture," Idomeneo" (Mozart); of 422,000 francs in gold for forty-two performances in Fragments from " Romeo et Juliet " (Berlioz); " Eroica" Italy during the last four months. (Beethoven); Overture, " Girondisten" (Litolff). Bilse The Munich tenor, Herr Nachbaur, has been extremely Concert (March 9): Overture, "Weihe des Hauses" well received at Rome, where he made his debut in (Beethoven); Huldigungsmarsch (Wagner); Rhapsody in " Lohengrin;" he was also announced to appear, to- gether with Madame Pauline Lucca, in " Faust" and vereinF (Liszt); (March Ocean 25): Symphony " Faust " Music(Rubinstein), (Schumann). &c. C.cilien- " Les Huguenots." The only daughter of Cherubini, Madame Zenobia Rossetti, is still living at Pisa, where the composer's CORRESPONDENCE. " Requiem" was recently performed on the occasion of the death of the late King, Victor Emmanuel. The attention JAMES LEACH OF ROCHDALE. of the present monarch having been called to the fact, he TO THE EDITOR OF " THE MUSICAL TIMES." has graciously granted a pension to the near relative of the great maestro. SIR,-Inquiries have been lately made in America Madame Rossini, nie Olympe Pelissier, the widow of the respecting some hymn-tunes by Leach, which are found in composer of " Guillaume Tell," died on the 22nd ult. at collections published in the United States at the close of her villa at Passy, near Paris, at the age of seventy-eight. the last and the beginning of the present centuries. The She was married to the composer in 1845, shortly after the tune named " Fountain " is in a music-book of 127 pages, death of his first wife, Isabelle Colbrand, from whom he called " Easy Instructor," which was printed at Albany in had been long separated. The deceased lady leaves the 1798 and published by Little and Smith. In "The whole of her personal fortune (about a million of francs) Bridgewater Collection of Sacred Music," first edition, to be devoted to the erection of an asylum for French and printed in Boston in 1802, are " Hampton," "Wilderness," Italian vocal artists. "Bridgewater," " Fountain," "Hamilton," " Morning At Coblenz, his native town, died on February 22, at Flower," and " Sepulchre; " and in a book called " David the age of eighty-five, Francois Hiinten, the well-known Companion, or the Methodist Standard "-the compilation composer of easy and pleasing pianoforte music, and of which was ordered by the General Conference at Balti- author of a mithode de piano at one time much in use. more, May 26, i8o8, and which was registered as copy- After having lived many years in Paris, where he gained a right July 28, i8io-are forty-eight pieces of music by great reputation, he retired to his native town in 1847, James Leach. From that time forward Leach's tunes passing the remainder of his days in easy circumstances. were included in most of the American collections. Several The death also is announced, at Florence, of the once of them attained considerable popularity in England, but, famous tenor Mariani, for whom Donizetti wrote the with many other tunes of their period, are now disappear- part of Gennaro in " Lucrezia Borgia." He had just ing from modern hymnals. A few lines respecting Leach completed his seventieth year. and his tunes may interest some of your American readers. We subjoin, as usual, the programmes of concerts James Leach, of Rochdale, Yorkshire, was a counter- recently given at some of the leading institutions abroad:- tenor singer and a member of the King's Band. He was Paris.-Concert Populaire (March 3): Symphony, D born in 1762, and was killed by a stage-coach accident in major (Mozart) ; " Tasso," Poeme-Symphonique (Liszt); the spring of 1797. In 1789 he published " A New Sett Intermezzo (F. Lachner); Pianoforte Concerto, No. 4 of Hymns and Psalm Tunes adapted for the Use ot (Saint-Sains); Fragments from the " Serenade," Op. 8 Churches, Chapels, & Sunday Schools, with Accompani- (Beethoven); Overture to " La Chasse du jeune Henri" ments & a Thoro' Bass, the whole figured for the Organ, (Mehul). Concert Populaire (March io): Overture to " Le Harpsichord, or Piano-Forte, Composed by J. Leach, Roi d'Ys" (Lalo); Chorus from "Oberon" (Weber); Rochdale. London. Printed for the Author, & Sold by Theme Slave varid (Delibes) ; Fragments from " Iphigenie Preston & Son at their Warehouses, 97, Strand, and Exeter en Aulide" (Gluck); Choral Symphony (Beethoven). Change. T. Beale, Music Seller, Manchester, and to be Concert de l'Association Artistique (March Io): " La Fille had at all the Music Shops in the Kingdom." The preface du Roi des Aulnes " (Niels W. Gade); Variations on a is dated June 29, 1789, and states that some of the tunes Theme by Beethoven for two pianofortes (Saint-Saens); were written " a few years ago," and " got handed about." Overture, " Der Freischiitz " (Weber), &c. Concert du Con- Hence their publication. " A Second Sett of Hymns and servatoire (March 17): Choral Symphony (Beethoven); Psalm Tunes," &c., was published in Leach's lifetime. Romance from a Symphony (Haydn); Chorus, " La Mort It is not dated, but refers in the preface to the former set d'Ophilie" (Berlioz); Overture to "Oberon" (Weber). of " a few years ago." The date of the second set is pro- Concert Populaire (March 17): Symphony, "Harold" bably about 1794 or 1795. To an edition of it published (Berlioz); Concerto for Pianoforte (Grieg); Fragments after the composer's death an advertisement is appended, from " Midsummer Night's Dream" (Mendelssohn), &c. dated " Manchester, 1798," which states that " the sudden Concert du ChAtelet (March 17):" Requiem" (Berlioz). death of Mr. Leach had reduced his family to very necessi- Concert Populaire (March 24): Symphony in F major tous circumstances," and soliciting subscriptions towards (Beethoven); Symphony, " Le Forat enchantde " (d'Indy) ; publishing sundry MS. anthems, &c., for the benefit of the Violin Concerto (Viotti) ; " Le Rouet d'Omphale" (Saint- family. Saens); Overture, " Euryanthe" (Weber). Later impressions of both "setts" were printed from the Leipzig.-Euterpe Concert (Feb. 26): Funeral March original plates, but are without the prefaces. A copy in from " Alexandrea" (Zopff) ; Symphony, D major (Haydn); my possession bears the date 1812 in the water-mark in Siegfried Idyl (Wagner); Suite for Violin (Ries); Overture, the fly-leaf.

This content downloaded from 128.135.12.127 on Sun, 19 Jun 2016 23:26:27 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THE MUSICAL TIMES.-APRIL I, 1878. 227 The tunes and other pieces in the two volumes are as Setting aside some occasional performances of a less follow:- noteworthy character, our musical season may be thus First Sett.-New Trumpet, Rochdale, Standing, Town- hastily summed up.-Yours truly, LORING B. BARNES. head, Traveling, Supplication, Shepherd's Lover, Mystery, Boston, U.S.A., March I, 1878. Hamilton, Fountain, Complaint, Sabbath, Oldham, Mount Pleasant, Pisgah, Failsworth, Jordan, Bethel, Jerusalem, Melody, Nativity, and Middleton. After these come two ALLISON & CO. long pieces, with instrumental accompaniments: "The TO THE EDITOR OF " THE MUSICAL TIMES." Tribunal," a setting of the hymn, " He comes, he comes, the Judge severe;" and " The Second Coming of Christ," SIR,-Our attention has been called to a paragraph in to the hymn, " Lo, He comes with clouds descending." the February number of the MUSICAL TIMES, that we Second Sett.-Redemption, Funeral, Judgment, Har- had removed our pianoforte factory from Wardour Street. mony, Rest, Refuge, Hermit, St. John, Mount Zion, This is not exactly the case, as it is only our show-rooms Bethlehem, Mount Hermon, Lebanon, Pastoral, Wrestling and offices we have removed to No. 40, Great Marlborough Jacob, Morning Flower, Aphek, Sepulchre, Peru, Joannes Street; our factories being still where they have always vel Momenti Mores (the engraver's version, I presume, of been, at the Apollo Works, Kentish Town; and we have no connection whatever with any firm of a similar name to Memento mori), Jehudijah, Mourner, Triumph, Wilderness, ours in Wardour Street. Infancy, Smyrna, Palestine, New Windsor, Patmos, Salford, Mount Tabor, Penitent, Mount Carmel, Pilgrim, Your insertion of the above in your next issue will much Sheilds, Tabernacle, Mehetabel, Hallelujah, Judea, Mount oblige.-Yours faithfully, ARTHUR ALLISON & CO. Nebo, Syria, Alexandria, Cyprus, Nile, Watchman, Egypt, Orpheus, Sharon, Gaza, Reumah, Calvary, and Canaan. ORGAN BLOWING. The last three of these are long pieces. The above names are those given to the tunes by Leach himself, and they TO THE EDITOR OF "THE MUSICAL TIMES." seem to have been pretty generally adhered to; but the SIR,-Will some of your readers kindly inform me if tune " Bridgewater " in the American collection is identical there is not an easier mechanical method of blowing a with that originally called " Sheilds."* A tune named small organ or pedal harmonium than by attaching an Knaresborough, and ascribed to Leach, is, I believe, an hydraulic engine ? adaptation from one of his anthems. The first set of tunes If you could ventilate the subject a little in your columns, forms a volume containing fifty-eight pages; the second set I feel sure you would be conferring a great favour upon sixty-nine pages, both oblong quarto. Besides the two many lovers of sacred music, including myself.-Trusting books of hymn-tunes, Leach's published works include you will oblige, yours obediently, C. S. some anthems and, I am informed, trios for two violins and a bass viol.-Yours faithfully, G. A. C. TO CORRESPONDENTS. *.* Notices of concerts, and other information supplied by our friends MUSIC IN BOSTON. in the country, must be forwarded as early as possible after the occurrence; otherwise they cannot be inserted. Our correspondents TO THE EDITOR OF " THE MUSICAL TIMES." must specifically denote the date of each concert, for without such date no notice can be taken of the performance. SIR,-The long-continued depression existing among all Our correspondents will greatly oblige by writing all names as clearly as possible, as we cannot be responsible for any mistakes that may classes of producers, manufacturers, and traders through- occur. out the States has had much influence upon musical Correspondents are informed that their names and addresses must ventures here, with few exceptions. It is understood, accompany all communications. however, that a season of Italian Opera will be given in We cannot undertake to return offered contributions; the authors, some of the chief cities by the Strackosch company, en- therefore, will do well to retain copies. larged for the purpose, later in the season. The company Notice is sent to all Subscribers whose payment (in advance) is ex- comprises, among others of note, those accomplished hausted. The paper will be discontinued where the Subscription is artists-Clara Louise Kellogg, Annie Louise Cary, and not renewed. We again remind those who are disappointed in Madame Marie Roze. Other travelling companies are also obtaining back numbers that, although the music pages are always stereotyped, only a sufficient quantity of the rest of the paper is trying their fortunes in various parts of the country, some printed to supply the current sale. meeting with fair success. Here we are having our usual number of Symphony Concerts by the Harvard Musical Association, which gives us each year some very fine BRIEF SUMMARY OF COUNTRY NEWS. entertainments (although they are inadequately supported), We do not hold ourselves responsible for any opinions expressed in and similar concerts are also given by the celebrated this Summary, as all the notices are either collated from the local Thomas Orchestra. Our old Handel and Haydn Society, papers or supplied to us by correspondents. too, is cautiously feeling its way through the season, and ABERDEEN.-The University Choral Society gave its Annual Concert affording us opportunities of hearing some superb speci- at the Music Hall on the 8th ult. before a large audience. In the first part of the programme, Sir Herbert Oakeley's Students' Song, " Alma mens of chorus-singing in connection always with the Mater" (accompanied on the organ by the composer), was rapturously best solo talent obtainable. Carl Zerrahn still holds the received, and his Organ Solo, " Edinburgh " (composed by the Professor baton for this Society, as he does also for the Harvard for the Liverpool Musical Festival of 1874), also elicited the warmest marks of approbation. The part-singing was generally extremely Musical, a position he has occupied in the first-named good, and the concert was in every respect highly successful.--On organisation for more than a quarter of a century; and the 9th ult. Sir Herbert Oakeley gave a Lecture on Madrigals, in much of the success of the Society may be fairly attribut- which he traced with much clearness the history of these composi- able to his able management in the particular department tions, illustrating his remarks by some of the best specimens, which under his control. Mendelssohn's " St. Paul " is the next were excellently rendered by the Musical Association. The lecture was listened to with the utmost interest by a large audience; and at announced performance by this Society, and is to take the close of his address a vote of thanks to Sir Herbert Oakeley place on the 6th inst., to be followed at Easter by Haydn's was proposed by Professor Black. " Creation." ABINGDON.-On Wednesday the 6th ult. a Musical Lecture was given in the Wesleyan Schoolroom by the Rev. S. V. Lewis, entitled Our two male-voice singing clubs, the " Apollo " and "An Evening with the Fairies," on the popular superstitions of Wales the " Boylston," are giving some excellent performances and other old countries. Characteristic Welsh songs and part-songs this season, the first under the conductorship of Mr. B. J. were well rendered by Mrs. T. B. Kendall, Miss Fewster, Mr. C. Lewis, Lang, and the other under that of Mr. Geo. L. Osgood; and Mr. H. Clarke; Mrs. G. Davis being a skilful accompanist. The musical portion of the programme included a "Fantasia on Welsh both capable and entirely equal to their respective positions, Airs," by Brinley Richards, brilliantly executed by Mrs. T. B. Kendall and both laudably ambitious to excel. The auxiliary (nde Hellis), a former certificated pupil of the composer's; a Song and female chorus of the "Boylston " and the " Cecilia" Chorus, " Wales," by Mr. H. Clarke; " The Bells of Aberdovey," by Mrs. T. B. Kendall; and other songs, &c. The proceeds of the enter- Society (a small company of mixed voices) are also giving tainment were for the relief of the families of the unemployed miners us some good concerts. of South Wales. ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.-The services in connection with * The Worcester Collection of Sacred Harmony, by Isaiah Thomas, the consecration of the first portion of the Cathedral Church of St. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1786, contains a totally different " Bridge- Peter's, held in the Octave commencing Sunday, December 30, 1877, water," by Edson, an American composer. and ending Sunday, January 6, 1878, were highly creditable. The

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