Iron County register., 1890-09-11
MUSICAL NOTES.
Mr.. Emil Liebling, the pianist. has !
trrpod fron his trip n hro,d

Mr.. Emil Liebling, the pianist, has re-
turned from his trip abroad.
A statue of Wagner is to be erected
before the Stadt Theater in Leipsic.
The Schubert Quartette, of Chicago.
closed it's fourth engagement at Chautau-
qua, August %.
''The Merry Monarch has proved a.
great success in New York, and is soon
to be produced in London.
1t is stated that Henry E. Abbey has
offered Anton Rubinstein, the pianist
$4,000 for tour through America.
Vladimir de Pachmann, who has been
spending the summer in the Catskill
mountains, is now visiting Saratoga.
A monument has just been erected in
memory of tho pianist, Adolph Henselt.
at Warm brunn, the place of his death
Herr d'Albert, the pianist, intends to
make Lichterfelde. near Berlin, his per-
manent place of residence, and has pur-
chased q country seat there.
Pauline Hall and her Opera Comic ue
Company have commenced rehearsals of
the operattas 'sAncorita" and 'sErminie"
at the Union Square Theater.
Sig. Sapio, who was one of the con-
ductors of the first Italian opera season
at the Auditorium, has been engaged as
principal professor of the National Con-
servatory, New York.
The Grunfeld Brothers, of Berlin
one pianist and the other 4 violoncel-
1ist-are to make 4 tour of this country,
and have signed for an engagement
rom September, 1891, to March. 1892.
A memorial has been affixed by the
Liedertafel of Wurzberg to the house in
which Wagner lived in 1858. In this
house he completed his early opera,
''Die Fcen." He was at the time twenty
years old and resided with his brother
who was an opera singer.
In answer to statement that Par
sifal" would be produced at Munich DIR
ing the coming season, Frau Wagner
has written 4 letter in which she denies
the truth of this assertion, and adds
that she will not sanction any produc
ton of 'Parsifal' away from Beyreuth
Heinrich Conrcid has acquired the
right of production for the United
States, Australia, Canada and England
of Johann Strauss new romantic opera,
''knight PatZmann." He has also the
rights to the ballet "Drcsden China" to
be produced at the Metropolitan Opera
House.
1t is reported from Buenos Ayres that
Tamagno, the Italian tenor, has founded
q bank, tho main purpose of which is to
forward to their families in Italy the
savings of Italian immigrants, publish
ing the relative receipts in q leading
Italian paper. The bank is to have
capital of five hundred thousand francs,
Francis Wilson and company in The
Merry Monarch are credited with hav-
ing Won success at the Broadway The
ater which is almost without precedent
in the history of comic opera in New
York. 1t will run only seven weeks Ut
that house. it having been impossible to
secure an extension of time.
An English firm not long ago pub
lished key to Parsifal," by Mr.. Ash
ton Ellis. The leading motives, twen-
ty-five in all. excluding subsidiary mo-
tives, arc printed in music type, and
there arc q large number CT cross refer
ences; the name of each motive as it ap
pears in the analysis being, for purposes
of more ready reference, printed in
heavy type. Mr.. Ellis warns readers
who hear the opera for the first time
against destroying the effect of the mu-
sic by attempting to follow the motives
too closely. but the analysis now given
will enable them afterward to thorough.
iy grasp the meaning of the music.