, 1875-11-21

| were OT. aAAS NUlUo Won BUI0W al
| American citizen and politician, instead OF
being loyal subject of BISMARCK and pi.
anist, no Office would open its doors to him
| no spoi1s would ever tempt him, from the
fact that the interpreter Of the classics is not
| votary of GAunEEus, the big-bellied god
| Of beer. This fact has been drawn out in an
interview between a reporter Of the New
York Sun and himself, the former being curl
Gus, like many other people, to know the
reason of Mr. CARL BERGMANN's sudden dis
missal from the conduct Of the orchestra with
which he (VoN Bu1ow) played his concertos
in Boston The Doctor was very frank and
blunt in his statement. He rid himself Of
Mr. CARL BE8GMAsN because Ar. CARL BERG
MANN kept himself full OF beer, and kept the
orchestra full also, with disastrous results to
the concerts He plainly intimated that Mr..
CARL BERG,1ANN was in the habit of getting
how came you so ION beer, and he ami
madverted severely upon the beer-drinking
tendencies Of his countrymen in general, and
musicians in particular.
Had this onslaught upon GAspRNus, who
sits enthroned in divers attitudes before every
saloon, been made by an American OR q Ger
man unknown to fame, the German people
would have crushed him with the epithet Of
mucker, OF aea*se1- -scnpeZ, or some other
equally opprobrious name, significant Of the
German hatred Of water; but this time it
comes from man who is representative
German musician, who has made German
music more famous than ever, and who is
destined to 60 down to posterity by the side
of L1szT, TAUs1G, and the other great Ger
man pianists, and to be chronicled in the en-
cyclopedias by the side of WAGNER, RAFF,
BRAHals, and the other representatives Of
the modern German school Of music. He is
not naucker or scasser- -sempel, and he can
not be extinguished with an epithet. His
protest is in the nature of dedant at
tack upon an almost universal habit
among German musicians, and it has
come in good time. It is pleasant to reflect
that Won BU1ow is capable Of making good
his statement. He is not man addicted to
swan songs OF Penserosos. He does not be-
long to the tender-eyed, melancholy, senti-
mental class of musicians who play to femi-
nine hearts. He plays to mems heads. His
music is the music of brains. He is aggres-
sive and wsrlike, fond Of combat as WAGNER
himself, and hurls defiance at his own coun-
trymen as promptly as he hurled his thunder
bolts at VERDI and the italian school recently.
He is the B1sMARoK Of music The German
beer-drinkers will not make an open assault
upon him. They may probably adopt the un-
derhanded German system Of cliquing
against him, however, which is fayorite
system with the average German musician.
Against beer Us an element of Gemuetzich-
keit no exceptions will probably be taken, but
we contend thet beer as an element of music |
has always been its bane in Chicago, as well |
rs elsewhere. Beer drove Carl BEEaMANH
himself out Of this city years ago. Beer
ehqued against HENRY ARlEs and ruined |
him. Beer drove GRoascunTH into his grave |
one stormy winter day, and not q beer-drinker
followed him to his last restng~place. Beer
dlled CARL AssoHuErz, one Of the brightest
md best German musicians this country has
'ver had; andit was reserved for THEODORE
rRoMAs, who is not beer-drinker, to defend
i'm On one occasion when he was not able to