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WAREROOMS ;169 TREMONT ST. ^ BOSTON 284 THIRTY-EIGHTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTEEN AND NINETEEN A Pi FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 13, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, at 8 o'clock Beethoven ..... Symphony No. 8, F major, Op. 93 I. Allegro vivace e con brio. II. Allegretto scherzando. III. Tempo di menuetto. IV. Allegro vivace. Converse . "The Mystic Trumpeter," Orchestral Fantasy, Op. 19 (after the Poem of Walt Whitman) Guilmant . Symphony No. 1, D minor, for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 42 I. Largo e maestoso. Allegro. II. Pastorale: Andante quasi allegretto. III. Finale: Allegro assai. Cadenza by Joseph Bonnet SOLOIST Mr. JOSEPH BONNET There will be an intermission of ten minutes after Beethoven's symphony The ladies of the audience are earnestly requested not to put on hats before the end of a number. TJie doors of the hall will be closed during the performance of each number on the programme. Those who wish to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval between the numbers. City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898,— 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 bang understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn' Attest: J. M. GALVIN, City Clerk.' 285 KilRL 202-216 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON EXCLUSIVE, USEFUL HOLIDAY GIFTS We have prepared fully to meet the Christmas demands, and an Early Inspection is advised while the assortment is complete TOYS GAMES DOLLS ATTRACTIVE COLLECTION MODERATE PRICES llenr^lf.lllilljer PIANOFORTES 395BoylstonSt. Boston 286 Symphony in F major, No. 8, Op. 93 . Ludwig van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.) This symphony was composed at Linz in the summer of 1812. The autograph manuscript in the Royal Library at Berlin bears this in- scription in Beethoven's handwriting : "Sinfonia—Lintz, im Monath October 1912." Gloggl's Linzer Musikzeitung made this announce- ment October 5 : "We have had at last the long-wished-for pleasure to have for some days in our capital the Orpheus and the greatest musical poet of our time, Mr. L. van Beethoven; and, if Apollo is gracious to us, we shall also have the opportunity of wondering at his art." The same periodical announced November 10 : "The great tone-poet and tone-artist, Louis van Beethoven, has left our city with- out fulfilling our passionate wish of hearing him publicly in a con- cert." Beethoven was in poor physical condition in 1812, and, as Stauden- heim, his physician, advised him to try Bohemian baths, he went to Toplitz by way of Prague; to Carlsbad, where a note of the postil- ion's horn found its way among the sketches for the Eighth Sym- phony; to Franzensbrunn and again to Toplitz; and lastly to his brother Johann's * home at Linz, where he remained until into November. At the beginning of 1812 Beethoven contemplated writing three symphonies at the same time. The key of the third, D minor, was * Nikolaus Johann, Beethoven's second younger brother, was born at Bonn In 1776. He died at Vienna in 1848. He was an apothecary at Linz and Vienna, the Gutsbesitzer of the familiar anecdote and Ludwig's pet aversion. Ml W I SELECTED FROM THE PROGRAMMES OF BOSTON SINGERS SUNG BY {MARTHA ATWOOD, Mme. CALVERT. EARL CARTWRIGHT, JOHN E. DANIELS. ARTHUR HACKETT. ROLAND HAYES. HELEN ALLEN HUNT, ROSETTA KEY. CLARA SEXTON, HER- BERT W. SMITH. 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For Sale by all Music Dealers 287 already determined, but he postponed work on this, and as the auto- graph score of the first of the remaining two, the Symphony in A, No. 7, is dated May 13, it is probable that he contemplated the Seventh before he left Vienna on his summer journey. His sojourn in Linz was not a pleasant one. Johann, a bachelor, lived in a house too large for his needs, and so he rented a part of it to a physician, who had a sister-in-law, Therese Obermeyer, a cheerful and well- proportioned woman of an agreeable if not handsome face. Johann looked on her kindly, made her his housekeeper, and, according to the gossips of Linz, there was a closer relationship. Beethoven med- dled with his brother's affairs, and, finding him obdurate, visited the bishop and the police authorities and persuaded them to banish her from the town, to send her to Vienna if she should still be in Linz on a fixed day. There was a wild scene between the brothers. Johann played the winning card : he married Therese on November 8. Lud- wig, furious, went back to Vienna, and took pleasure afterwards in referring to his sister-in-law in his conversation and in his letters as the "Queen of Night." This same Johann said that the Eighth Symphony was completed from sketches made during walks to and from the Postlingberge, but Thayer considered him to be an untrustworthy witness. The two symphonies were probably played for the first time at the Archduke Rudolph's in Vienna, April 20, 1813. Beethoven in the same month endeavored to produce them at a concert, but without success. The Seventh was not played until December 8, 1813, at a concert organized by Malzel, the mechanician. The programme book of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Novem- ber 1, 2, 1918, contained a biographical sketch of Johann Nepomuk Malzel (Malzl), with an account of his automata, his adventures with theft in the United States, and his death at sea, July 21, 1838, as he was on his way from Havana to Philadelphia. The first performance of the Eighth Symphony was at a concert given by Beethoven at Vienna in the "Redoutensaal" on Sunday, February 27, 1814. The programme included his Symphony No. 7; DRESS SLIPPERS We are showing a great variety of Dress Slippers in Patent] Leather, Bronze, Black or White Kid, Silver or Gold Cloth, Black and White Satin Ornaments of Rhinestone, Bronze, Jet or Cut Steel 160 TREMONT T.