, 1876-12-31
ABROAD.

/ Mu5lCAL hOIES.
Miss Rive is quite III In Boston.
T. Brignoli. Is to have benefit in Buffalo early
| next month.
Myrou W. Whitney is engaged in the Western
cities from Jan. to Jan. e.
Miss Anna Mehlig has been playing In Man.
chester, England, where she met with much sue
| cess.
Dr.. Bulow has entirely recovered his health,
and is as fresh and as full Of professional ardor
rs eyer.
Herr Wachtel has met with great success and
/ drawn crowded houses as Rao,A in the "Huguc-
not" (" In Amsterdam and Rotterdam
A collection Of 800 letters, written to and by
Chopin, and in the possession Of bis sister, Is In
course Of publication at Dresden in German.
The Didaskalia, Russian journal, reports
that with the next winter season the Imperial
italian Opera at st. Petersburg will cease to
exist.
Nine. Pauline Iucca, after enactjng Se|ika
f' Africaine ~, has appeared in Brussels, at the
Theatre de Ia Monnaie, in "Faust" and In the
"Troyatore."
Miss Minnie Hauck, the young American
prima donna, has been singing in Pcsth and
Berlin, and has met with extraordinary success
in both cities.
Nine. Nilsson, after her successful tour in
Belgium and Holland, has returned to Paris, on
her WaV to Vienna, where she will appear and
sing in German.
Fran Materna, who played an important part
In the Bayreuth Wagner performances, will, it
Is rumored, be member of Mr.. Gye's next
Italian opera company.
The return Of Nine. Ade1ina Patti to the
Italian Opera-House in Moscow, in the character
OF Dinorah Tin Alcyerbeer's 'tPardou de ploer-
mel y, has been rapturously greeted.
Prof. DR.. 4. Reissman, of Berlin, well known
as musical historian. is noW the editor Of the
Musical Lexicon which was begun under the
supervision OF Fl. Mendel, recently deceased.
Herr Waener's Rienzi," to borrow the re-
port Of the Italian critics, has met with s,ccesso
colossdle at Bologna. The ]a,.ale Of the second
act was encored-spettacolo stupeado-it Is added
IN tue notices.
Carl Rosa is considered the wealthiestoperatfc
manager living. Parcpa left him q large for
tune, and his own efforts have been remarka-
bic financial success. Report says that he is
about to marry again.
4 new composition by Anton Rubfnstefn, a
81, was performed on the 7th OF November for
the first time in the quartet soiree Of the Rus
sian Musical Association in st. Petersburg.
!: It ia asserted that during the Paris 1nterna-
tional Exposition in 1875, Madame Adelina
Patti will be engaged at the Grand Opera, to
sustain the part Of Pauline in H. Gounod's
"Polyeucte.'' Signor Nieolini, also, It is said,
will sing in Paris during the Exposition.
Herr Won Flotow, sitter the successful rece2-
ton OF his new three-act opera, "u Flor d'Aar~
lem," the 1ibretto By Ii. Saint-Georges, was in-
vited to a banquet ut Turin, at which he
proposed toast in these words: II drink to
Italy, which will always remain the land Of
melody, and will, perhaps, be its refuge"
Nine. Schumann played with the greatest
success, at the Eighth Gewandhaus Concert at
Leipzig, her husbands Pianoforte Concerto IN
A minor, Mendelssohn:s Variations, Op. Sc, aud
q waltz BY Chopin. 4 new symphony in D
minor, No. 3, by Herr S. Jadassohn. was well
received. the composer conducting his work.
DR.. Franz Witt, the head Of the movement in
Germany to restore purity to the music OF the
Church, has determined to put quietus, ii pos
sible, to the everlasting discussion on consecu-
tive ffths and octaves IN compositions. He has
offered prize of 800 marks Tor brochure
which shall thoroughly treat of the prohibition
OF those SUGGESTIONS as laid down By the writer's
Of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth cen
turtles, including criticism Of the compositions
and theories ct the nineteenth century bearing
on the points, and discussion Of the question
to what extent ttesc arguments apply in our
day.