, 1876-11-26
ABROAD.
MUSICAL NOTES.

Wachtel will sing in Berlin in February and
March.
| NJ Jaell is engaged for the Nilsson concerts
| in Holland.
Rubinstcin will give concerts this winter in
| Belgium, Holland, and England.
| Theodore Thomas was Inst week giving con-
| certs in Boston. he has engaged the Swedish
Ladies' Quartet.
Wieniawsk, who is now connected with the
Brussels Conservatory, will give concerts this
| month in the cities OF Austria
Nine, Nilsson appeared at the Grand Opera
House, in Antwerp, Oh the 4th inst, as Mar
gueritc in N. Gounod's "Faust."
List is refusing a1l invitations to play in
public, aud spends his time at Pesth, teaching
the pupils at the Academy Of Music
Mrs. Oates was severely dealt with BY the
Philadelphia critics last week, Que OF whom sug-
gcsted her retirement to private life.
There is well-foundcd Tumor afioat that
Patti is going to be divorced from the Marquis
dc Cau1. It Is to be done quietly and raulia-
bic.
It is worthy Of note that the people who
hissed Wagner's music in Paris recently cor
tinued to hiss when the obedient orchestra
played the overture to " Der Freischutz."
They could not distinguish between Wagner and
Weber.
Mdlle Schou, Danish lady, made her debut
recently at the Royal Copenhagen Theatre in
the part Of tho Queen of the Night In Mozarts
9su Flauto Afagico.'' The critics assert that
the quality, power, and extent of this young
artiste's voice are such that she will probably
soon obtain European fame.
The Nsue Zeitychrift Fur 1f7tsl; states that
some French composers intend trying conclu-
sions with Wagner on his own ground. N.
Reyer is engaged upon a &c Sigurt," the subject
Of which is similar to the third part of the
i" Ring Of the Nibelungs," and n. Joncieres is
at work on Tristan,'' which is intended to
eurpass Wagner's Tristan and Isoldc.'
season Of concerts with high musical success,
aud it is evident that he1e, Us well as in Europe,
she will be accorded rank with Rubiustein and
Won Bulow, and quite above krebs, Meh'ig,
and others of special talent. Her virtuosity is
little less than miraculous. and, like the two
master-pianists above mentioned, she does not
use notes, her memory being lnfa1llblc III its
accuracy, Her hand and wrist are a mechanical
marvel, and her touch beyond anything in both
dclicacy and power. With these joining mu-
seems to lack nothing Of what great pianist
should have.
Mr.. Carl Rosa has produced 'Fidelio," with
an English libretto, n London. Mile. Torrian
is the Leonord, and Miss Julia Gaylord, young
New Yorker, by her performance Of !HarceAina,
WHICH Is 6aiu tO De siIupl! E'ci1GCt, Ehlla Liz
following paragraph OF praise ia MIR. Ebcuezer
Prout's criticism in the academy Of the per-
formance:
Those who are acquainted with this very clever
young lady's style could have foretold that tho
part Would snit her admirably; but even her warm
cst admirers would have hardly expected that she
would sing Becthoycns music 80 we'll: BY her
impcrsonation Miss Gaylord has added another
wreath tu her laurels. 1t is rather amusing to re-
member that a. the beginning Of the present
son when air. Rosa's prospectus was Issued, some
Of our musical critics spoke Of this young lady in
disparaging, not to say contemptuons, way, as one
who was quite useless for any but very secondary
parts,