CARNEGIE HALL - - NEW YORK Twenty-second Season in New York DR. KARL MUCK, Conductor fnigrammra of % FIRST CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7 AT 8.15 PRECISELY AND THK FIRST MATINEE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 9 AT 2.30 PRECISELY WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER : Piano. Used and indorsed by Reisenauer, Neitzel, Burmeister, Gabrilowitsch, Nordica, Campanari, Bispham, and many other noted artists, will be used by TERESA CARRENO during her tour of the United States this season. The Everett piano has been played recently under the baton of the following famous conductors Theodore Thomas Franz Kneisel Dr. Karl Muck Fritz Scheel Walter Damrosch Frank Damrosch Frederick Stock F. 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The composer was hurt by this display of malice, nor did he see why he should apologize to admirers of Beethoven—of whom he was chief —for choosing the tonality of D minor for the chief theme of the svmphony. This tonality was his favorite. Bodily sufferings often obliged Bruckner to put aside his work, and death came before the Finale was shaped. Although sketches of this Finale are in existence, they are only faint indications of the composer's intentions. He is said to have remarked to friends that, if the three movements were performed after his death, his "Te Deum"f might be added as a Finale. The manuscript of the Ninth Symphony is in the Court Library at Vienna. We learn from it that the first movement was begun toward the end of April, 1891, and finished October 14, 1892. The Scherzo was completed on February 15, 1894, but the Trio was finished as early as February 27, 1893. The Adagio was completed October 31, 1894. The first performance was by the Vienna Academic Wagner Society and the Vienna Concert Society at Vienna, February 11, 1903. The conductor was Lowe, and as an act of piety Bruckner's "Te Deum" was performed as the Finale. The three movements were soon after- * Ferdinand Lowe, born at Vienna, February 19, 1865, was taught at the Vienna Conservatory of Music by Bruckner and Dachs. He taught the pianoforte and also chorus singing at the Conservatory. In 1897-98 he was conductor of the Kaim Orchestra at Munich. In 1898 he was called to Vienna to assist the Court Opera. He became in 1900 the conductor of the Gesellschafts concerts—he resigned this position in 1904 —and conductor of the Concert Society Orchestra. He has edited several works of Bruckner, and he was a great friend of Hugo Wolf. fBruckner's "Te Deum " was produced at Vienna in 1886. It was performed for the first time in the United States at St. Louis in December, 1891, on the occasion of the golden jubilee of Archbishop Kendrick. Joseph Otten conducted. It was performed at the Tenth Biennial Festival at Cincinnati, Theodore Thomas conductor, May 26, 1892. The first performance in Boston was by the Cecilia Society, Mr. Lang conductor, December 12,1905. The Worcester County Musical Association, Mr. W. Goodrich conductor, performed it September 28, 1905. NEW SONG CYCLES GEORGE H. CLUTSAM. Love Letters. Five Songs. 2 keys . Price, $1. 00 net AMY WOODFORDE-FINDEN. Five Japanese Songs. 2 keys . Price, $1.00 net LIZA LEHMANN. Golden Threshold. Quartette Cycle . Price, #1.50 net HERBERT G. LOVEDAY. Minstrel Songs from Scott's Rokeby. 2 keys Price, $ 1. 00 net LANDON RONALD. Love Tokens. Six Songs. 2 keys . Price, $1. 00 net HUBERT S. RYAN. Six Elizabethan Aires. 2 keys . Price, $1 00 net GERRIT SMITH. Thistledown Price, $1.50 net REGINALD SOMERVILLE. Love Themes. Cycle of Three Songs. Price, $1.00 net ARTHUR SOMERVELL. James Lee's Wife. Song Cycle for Contralto Price, #1.50 net 1 BOOSEY & COMPANY, 9 East Seventeenth St., New YorK City . — ; ward played in other German cities, as at Berlin by the Philharmonic, led by Nikisch, October 26, 1903 ; and they were performed at Munich for the third time in the season of 1 903-1 904. The first performance at a Philharmonic Concert in Vienna was on March 4, 1906 (Dr. Muck, conductor) The first performance in the United States was at Chicago by the Chicago Orchestra, Theodore Thomas conductor, February 20, 1904. The first performance in Boston was at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, April 2, 1904 (Mr. Gericke, conductor). The symphony is scored for three flutes, three oboes, three clarinets, two bassoons, double-bassoon, eight horns, three trumpets, three trom- bones, contrabass tuba, a set of three kettledrums, and strings. In the third movement the horns 5-8 are replaced by two tenor and two bass tubas. I. Feierlich (misterioso) , t) minor, 2-2. There is a departure in this movement from classic models, for the second grand division, the free fantasia, is practically omitted ; or it may be said that the free fantasia is blended with the recapitulation (the third grand division) in such a manner as to divide the movement into two grand divisions. Mr. Hubbard William Harris, of Chicago, prepared this synopsis of the form and its principal elements: "First part: Introduction; first theme (statement only—no devel- opment) ; second theme ; third theme ; fourth theme.