Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-21

The PERABo COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT
The complimentary concert tendersd by the
music loving portion of our community to
Mr.. Ernst Perabo, to come off tomorrow
evening at Brainard's Hall, promises to be
a complete success. The programme will
comprise an admirable selection of pieces,
and the experience and talent of Perabo,
Mr.. Draper and Misses Foote and Vaughan,
will ensure their rendering in praiseworthy
style. In every respect this concert will be
the most brilliant full-dress assemblage of
the season.
MIR. Johann Ernst Perabo was born at
| Wiesbaden, il the Grand Duchy of Nassau,
Germany, November 14th, 1915. The son of
an accomplished music teacher, he began
to show his love of the piano at a very early
/ age, and was SO well instructed that when
five years old he could execute nearly a
| hundred light melodies. lie soon began to
| study By himself, but was often interrupted
by sickness. In August, 1852, his parents
| came to America, which together with i'll
ness again interfered with his study. On
the 21st April, 1883, he appeared for the
first time in a grand concert at New
York. and performed lin his seventh
year,) a PolonGiSe Brilliante, by
Kucken, with great success. Afterwards in
Dover, n. H, whittier his father removed,
he caused much a~stonishment by MS ready
playing on piano, violin and organ. In
his ninth year he commenced the study of
the Fugue, and soon acquired the Gavicin
5iet temperc of Bach by heart, SO that he
could perform over n hundred fugues
and the songs without words by Mendelssohn
Bartholdy and other great composition as,
without reference to notes, being enabled,
at the same time to give his nearer the
page, line and tact he was playing.
To give his extraordinary talent more
room for development, his father removed
to Boston, where he had every chance Of
hearing the best music. Here he played q
piano with a great pedal attached, and soon
became able to play the great organ fugues
of Bach, with proper pedal, On the fremont
organ. He also appeared, while yet only
nine years Old, at the concerts of the eele.
brated organist, Mr.. G. W. Morgan, of Now
York, and drew out unbounded admiration
for his almost wonderful performances.
Having created so high a reputation il
Boston, many of the liberal citi.
zens wanted to furnish means for his fna'
education. The generous plan wa
not Immediately carried out, owing 20 thu
removal of Perabo'5 parents to Chicago, bur
it laid the foundation for another plar
which did effect the purpose of his musica
education in Germany. In September, 1858
he left New York for Hamburg, where a
the Gymnasium of Eimsbuttel he devoted
himself to his primary studies, acquiring
several languages. In 1862 he removed t.
Leipzig, where his talent, Industry and
virtuous behavior soon made him a success.
full student and universal favorite. On tht
4th of May, 1865, in the concert by the Ia
mented Burgmueller, he created o great sen.
sation. All the papers and all the people
of Leipzig were most enthusiastic in his
praise.
In November last he returned to this
country, and has since resided in Cleveland,
which is his permanent home. He has
since played in Boston and elsewhere in the
East, to large and delighted audiences, and
is everywhere greeted as a remarkable
musical genius. He is modest, intelligent
and virtuous, and his unprecedented de-
velopment of power as & musician puts him
in the front rank of celebrated young men.
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