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RAFT SONG. AT DAYBREAK. WE OPEN WITH A Special Scale of Popular Prices. The above have been recently published by the" BOSTON MUSIC COMPANY Chandler & Co., (G. SCHIRMER), 28 WEST STREET. Winter St., BOSTON. (196) Overture, "Genoveva." Schumann. Schumann was seven years finding a book for the only opera he ever wrote. In that time, he examined no less than twenty-two subjects, in- cluding the " Nibelungen Lied," " Abelard and He'loise," and Byron's " Corsair." In 1847, ne came across Hebbel's version of the story of Genevieve. Tieck's poem on the same subject also presenting itself, he requested Robert Reinick to prepare from them both a libretto. Schumann, being dissatisfied with Reinick's book, made so many changes that Rei- nick renounced all claim to what finally appeared. The opera was com- pleted during the year 1848. On its first production, at Leipzig, in 1850, it failed ; and, though it has since been performed, from time to time, at various theatres in Germany, it has never held a firm place in the repertory of lyric theatres. It is admitted that reasons for its want of success are to be found partly in the defects of the libretto. With regard to this, Dr. " Spitta says : He himself [i.e., the composer] arranged his own libretto. His chief model was Hebbel's ' Genoveva,' — a tragedy which had affected him in a wonderful way,— though he also made use of Tieck's ' Genoveva.' Besides these, he took Weber's ' Euryanthe ' as a pattern. The mixture of three poems, so widely differing from one another, resulted in a confusion of motives and an uncertainty of delineation, which add to the uninterest- ing impression produced by the libretto." The essentially lyric character of Schumann's score affords another reason for the succes (Testime which " Genoveva " won. 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We will ask the accomplished annotator of Mr. Henschel's London Symphony Concerts to tell something about the overture, mentioning, however, that it was first performed in Boston by the orchestra of the Harvard Musical Association on March i, 1866. Its last performance here was at a Boston Symphony Concert, Nov. 19, 1887: — " Genoveva's knightly husband goes to the wars ; and, in his absence a pretended friend urges her to forget her duty to him.