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SWEEZEY, 80 Center Street 4 Instead of Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole there will be played the same Composer's Second " Suite from the Ballet "Daphnis et Chloe WOOLSEY HALL NEW HAVEN B©§ Forty-seventh Season, 1927-1928 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Mozart . Symphony in E-flat major (Koechel No. 543) I. Adagio; Allegro. II. Andante. III. Menuetto; Trio. IV. Finale; Allegro. Brahms 1 Academic Festival" Overture, Op. 80 Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole I. Prelude a la Nuit. II. Malaguena. III. Habanera. IV. Feria ("The Fair"). Beethoven .... Symphony No. 7, in A major, Op. 92 I. Poco sostenuto; Vivace. II. Allegretto. III. Presto; Assai meno presto: Tempo primo. IV. Allegro con brio. There will be an intermission of ten minutes before Beethoven's symphony 5 — Symphony in E-flat Major (K. 543) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Born at Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died at Vienna, December 5, 1791 ) Mozart wrote his three greatest symphonies in 1788. The one in E-flat is dated June 26, the one in G minor July 25, the one in C major with the fugue-finale August 10. His other works of that year are of little importance with the exception of a piano concerto in D major which he played at the coronation festivities of Leopold II. at Frankfort in 1790. There are canons and piano pieces; there is the orchestration of Handel's "Acis and Galatea" ; there are six German dances and twelve min- uets for orchestra. Nor are the works composed in 1789 of interest with the exception of the clarinet quintet and a string quartet dedi- cated to the King of Prussia. Again we find dances for orchestra, twelve minuets and twelve German dances. Why is this? 1787 was the year of "Don Giovanni"; 1790, the year of "Cosii fan tutte." Was Mozart, as some say, exhausted by the feat of producing three symphonies in such a short time? Or was there some reason for discouragement and consequent idleness ? The Hitter Gluck, composer to the Emperor Joseph II., died No- vember 15, 1787, and thus resigned his position with salary of two Revised Edition FROM By ARTHUR ELSON A Unique and Invaluable Aid to Music Study Practical for Clubs and Schools Completely up to date, covering music from the Early times to the Modernists as well as music of the United States Special Advance of Publication Offer to March 1st, $1.50 the will be ( Thereafter price $2.25) OLIVER DITSON COMPANY 179 Tremont Street, Boston CHAS. H. DITSON & CO., 10 East 34th St., New York thousand florins. Mozart was appointed his successor, but the thrifty Joseph cut down the salary to eight hundred florins. And Mozart at this time was sadly in need of money, as his letters show. In a letter of June, 1788, he tells of his new lodgings, where he could have better air, a garden, quiet. In another, dated June 27, he says: "I have done more work in the ten days that I have lived here than in two months in my other lodgings, and I should be much better here, were it not for dismal thoughts that often come to me. I must drive them resolutely away; for I am living comfortably, pleasantly, and cheaply." He borrowed from Puchberg, a merchant with whom he became acquainted at a Masonic lodge : the letter with Puchberg's memorandum of the amount is in the collection edited by Nohl. Mozart could not reasonably expect help from the Emperor. The composer of "Don Giovanni" and the "Jupiter" symphony was un- fortunate in his Emperors. The first movement begins with a short and slow introduction, Adagio, E-flat major, 4-4, which opens with harmonies for full orchestra. The movement grows sombre, as 'cellos and double basses repeat a rhythm on an organ-point beneath sustained chords (wind instruments and drums) against scale passages for violins and arpeggios for flute.