The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-20
The Mendelssohn Ouintette Club.

The concert to be given by the Mendelssohn
Quintette Club, at the Seattle opera-hous to-
morrow night, will be notable musical event.
This is the forty third annual tour of the club.
Every year these artists cross the continent, and
they meet everywhere with the heartiest public
appreciation. ew lines devoted to the men W no
form the organization will doubtless prove of
interest. There is probably no musician in
America SO familiar to concert audiences all
through the length and breadth of the land as
Thomas Ryan, the viola and clarinet player of
the club. During the entire period OF the life of
this organization, now fortytwo years, he has
retained his connection with it, has lab red for
its well-earned reputation, and shared in the
honors which it has gained from the highest
musical circles in America. Eugene Boegner,
the violin virtuoso, was born in the small Ger
man province of Strehlend Mr.. Boegner began
the study of the violin at the age of g. under the
guidance of his father. He played q solo in
public when only years of age, and at II COM
menced the serious study OF the violin in
Breslau, where he played the Mendelssohn vio.-
lin concerto in public before he was IL.
After this he appeared in most of the
great concerts given in that city. He
studied for three years in the Royal Conserva-
tory of Music under Professor Joachim. Max
Adler, violinist, showed strong musical predi-
lection early in life, and was placed under good
instructors in Chicago, becoming later pupil
of the celebrated masters Joachim aud Wirth,
professors at the Royal conservatory OF Music
in Berlin, Germany. Alter thorough musical
training of four years at that institution he
Joined the Mendelssohn Quintette Club, of
which ne has been a member since 1883 Paul
Htnneberg, solo flute and violaiSt, began study
ing music at the age OF 6. Soon after he also
took up the flute, upon which instrument he
became quite virtuoso before he had reached
II. lie then entered the Royal Conservatory OF
Music in Berlin. where he studied both flute
and violin FOR three years, His success during
the past two seasons with the Mendelssohns has
been unprecedented. lie is universally
recognized the greatest genius on
the flute this cor1try has ever heard,
while he has surprised his hearers by
his versatility on the viola and yiooueello.
When only years OF age Herman Diestel began
the study of music, with his father instructor,
in his native city OF Berlin, Germany, choosing
the violoncello as his solo instrument at the age
OF 10 After graduating at college, he entered
the Royal Conservatory Of Music in Berlin, and
upon the conclusion Of his studies accepted the
po,ition of solo violoncelist In Hamburg. Later
he filed the same position in Dresden, where he
plsyed in Quartette with the renowned VIII
heimt for an entire season. Mis-, Barnard is a
native of California. aud was great tavorite in
her own state before being engaged by the Men
delssohns n year ago. Possessed o. a meZzo-
soprano voice of rare quality-true, sweet and
sympathetic to a high dcgTee-her success with
the club last season, throughout the entire
country was UNPARALLELED, and she created
genuine Juror wherever she was heard.