SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-NINTH SEASON, 1929-1930 oo WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President BENTLEY W. WARREN Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT FREDERICK E. LOWELL ERNEST B. DANE ARTHUR LYMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 2.53 J v «7 your STEINWAY now and pay for it at your leisure The buying of a Steinway is 50 years and more of the won- really a simple matter. You have derful Steinway tone. There is only to select the model best a price and a model for every adapted to your home, make a need. 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Brown Music Collection of the Boston Public Library one week before the concert 257 J93° She Tassion Tlay at Oberammergau Most famous and most impressive of the world's dramatic spectacles is the ancient Passion Play which is given every ten years by the villagers in the little town of Oberammergau in the Bavarian Highlands. It will begiven again in 1930—as it has been given regularly since 1634, RAYMOND-WHITCOMB, in their European Tours and their Individual Travel Service, will again — as in former years — provide the pleasantest and the most comfortable way for Americans to see the Passion Play. We will attend to every detail of your trip for you — your steamship passage, your railway tickets in Europe, your hotel accommodations, your tickets for the Passion Play and your rooms and meals at Ober- ammergau. We will combine a trip to Oberammergau with travel elsewhere in Europe and will make all the arrangements for the complete journey. (Raymond-Whitcomb booklets or any Ray mond-Whitcomb office will furnish suggestions for such a trip.) Send for the Raymond-Whitcomb Europe booklets Europe Tours Quide to Foreign Travel , RAYMOND & WHITCOMB CO. 165 Tremont St. 122 Newbury St. HANcock7820 BOSTON KENmore 2870 also at THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON 67 Milk Street LIBerty 4900 258 — 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. Xor 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 "Cosil 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 Bitter Gluck, composer to the Emperor Joseph II., died No- vember 15, 1787, and thus resigned his position with salary of two The best book on music that has yet come from America. —^Musical Opinion, London Music: An Art and A Language 'By WALTER % SPALDING Professor of Music, Harvard University CONTENTS I. Preliminary Considerations XI. Beethoven, the Tone-poet II. The Folk-Song XII. The Romantic Composers. III. Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Schubert, Weber Bach the FiFue XIII. 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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.