Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
The Belgian VioIinist

This rushing week of concerts opens we'll
tomorrow evening with the first appearance
here of the famous Belgian yiolinist, Mr..
Divide Musin, with his concert company,
which will be effected at Old City Hall.
This forms prime attraction in the Pitts
burg Star Course, that praiseworthy at
tempt to give really good entertainments at
prices within the reach of thousands who
cannot usually afford to attend them. A
very similar course now going on in CIeve-
land has 4 subscription list of 5000 names:
it ought to fill Old City Hall without difh-
Guilty.
Divide Misin was born in Liege, Belgium.
in 1854 AT the early age OF S he evinced SO
remarkable talent for music that his
father sent him to the Royal Conservatory
of Liege, where he received the first prize
for violin playing when but boy of IL.
Meanwhile, his father endeavored to per-
suade him TO abandon music as a profession.
but this was impossible. In 1870, Leonard
the celebrated violin player and composer,
having heard Musin, was so well pleased
with him that he tried, and succeeded. in
persusding his parents to let him choose the
career of an artist, and from that time to the
present his successes have been many and
great both in Europe and in America, where
he has been on concert tours from ocean to
ocean.
OF the Musln Company Miss Annie Louise
Tanner enjoys a good reputation through
this country, and the others, while less
known, are we'll spoken of by the critics.
The programme for tomorrow evening is as
follows:
!. Nalse Caprice-piano solo ..,,.Rubensteiu
Eduard Sharf
e Arioso for "UndIne' ,Gumber,
Karl Storr
Asummer Night. .Goring-Thomas
Inez Parmater
& Air and Variations Proch
Annie Louise Tanner.
Nf~no EAn'AiS19 69,ac iciN1;,;:;'.......Leonard N,;:;
6. Duet from "Ernani" Verdi
Inez Parmater and Kari Storr.
Bg9eg1Se Bganden' Chopin
Eduard scharf f'An
Duet for soprano and violin Artot
o A6Idi Annie Louise Tanner and ovlde Musin.
"An0efiei0''''i;;;i's;;:....'Rs Kari sforr schuman
iOSa Malthers Preislie. Wagner. Wilhelm
b Nalse de Concert. -. Vyieniavski
Divide Musin.
II Souvenir De Strauss
Annie Louise Tanner, Inez Parmater Karl
storr, ovide Musin, Eduard Scharf.
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The Beethoven Quartet Club.
Tuesday evening brings the first concert
this season by our much-prized chamber
music organization, the Beethoven Quartet
Club, composed of Messrs. Carl Retter,
piano. Fred G. Toerge, violin; George
Toerge, viola, and Charles T. Cooper, vio-
hncello. For this occasion Miss Clementina
De We're, whose popularity in the East this
season is even more astonishingly great than
before, has been engaged. Old City Hall
has been chosen for the Beethoyen's con.
certs this season.
The programme, printed in full last Sun
day, includes two novelties-Taubert' s
quartet, op. 50. for piano and strings. and
Doppler's Nocturne, op. 19, for flute,
horn, violin and piano. 1t is good
to see on our home programmes evil
dence of the renaissance of chamber-music
for wind instruments such as used to enioy
great vogue last century. Beethoven's great
"Kreutzer" sonata, for violin and piano,
played by MeSsrs. Fred Toerge and Retter,
will delight all lovers of good music as we'll
as satisfy the curiosity of the less musical
lately awakened bv Tolstoi;s novel.
When strolling troupes can command such
audiences, surely our own musicians work
ing honestly In peculiarly delightful field
of music ought to have most generous
patronage, especially when enterprising
enough to call in the aid of the leading
soprano now before the American public
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Opera in the Vernacular.