New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-12
MUSICAL COMlNENT.
MANAGERIAL MOTIVES" FIDELO' AGAIN3
FINANCING ABOUT BEETHOVEN-MR
THAYER-+AN AID To THE
STUDY OF FUGUES

There are many admirers Of German opera in New.
York who fs.l as II the production u Diana Won
SOlangc' waS nothing short Of dreul disaster tho
institution in upper Broadway. Taken in conjunction
with the OTHER mistakes of the season, indeed, II was
felt that hi, crowning blundcr actually ieoparded
the future prosperity Of German opera. No amuse-
ment mana ger in New York has less fckle public 10
deal with than the management Of the Metropolitan
opera House. No other manager has a public
generous. enent In Judgment -rateful No other
has a class Of patrons whose tastes and wishes
easily learned. There many subscribers for
the season. and of them considerable number have
got in tho habit Of notifying TO Mr. stanton their
wishes concerning the rcpctOry. Their letters and
the opportunity for feeling the public pulse which tho
presiding genius OF the bOX-Oflce enjoys. ought 10
suffice TO keep the management I'm touch every momens
of the with the popular desire When In spita
of this that widely astrsy "a it has
done this year, there small wonder that feeling Of
bewllderment should take possession OF opera patrons
and they should indulge in strange spccuations as
- the motive, and reasons whch actuating tho
MANAGEMENT. Natural all this Is, however we
do believe that II l. necessary In hunt the motives
50 near the ground many newspaper writes
did last saturday. Through all the vic.Sstuds
the Metropolitan enterprise since lis inception tp
policy Of Mr. stanton has been free from even tho
suspicion ~ faint Of Seliishness Or the desire To
be seen II men. This fact ought % be remembered
even by a socly puzzled and sadly perpleyed public
seeking an explanation for the production Of such an
amorphOus inverted rate amateurisn and antldusted
work Il, the Duke Of SAKE COburgs oIera. whatever
tie advantages hoped for, believe tat tie potue
ton was mstlle for the reason that the Institutions
cannot afford to risk further loss Of public INTEREST,"
nu, no one who has followed Mr. Santo,'s acuinsrt
ton with modicum Of intelligent Interest ousb
ever 10 question his honest devotion 10 high deals. 9
scratch about in the dirt Of scnintercst and personal
vainclory In hunt for the springs OF hs colduet
II i, doubtless owing to the publc's habi, finiMm-
in. Mr. stanton of it, wishes that owe he ray 81
light which comes sizing through the clouds in tie
shape OF the announcement that -" Fideho viii -
given NJ the matinee next saturday afternoon is'eaa
NJ " Diana Won Solange" II j. said that NT 300
letters were received BY Mr.. stanton asl1Hg tS
"Fidelior be performed at a matinee II Is P'oaele
that had he waited the director would have resve
almost as many asking that Diana" be rot peFtdrrea
With d" Die Meistersnger" announced for next Wone''
dsy and Friday. and NaTschner's Temper and J'rdn
biased on Scotts "lvanhoe~) under scored the net
novelty on the list. the lovers of German opera NAV
take heart. The period Of foolish experiment Is IaS'
Npropos Of Fidclio' and It's composer postal cae
neglected for some weeks is called 10 mind IL from
Mr. Alexander ". Tlaycr the greatest Of Beethoven
hoglapherS. who under many difficulties y iaoorlhg /"
complete his final volume in Trieste. Austria INC
readers 81 The Tribune have several times been To
minded Of the fact that des pts the distance that scp@
rates trm from Mr.. Thaycr. lie keeps up a warm M
,crest in the progress II music in his native county
lie also keeps jealous eye on the newspaper W
whose editorial stan he was One member ana 10 "
therefore not strange that he should have hou'ea
story about Beethoven MoIar and Joseph II W
Austria which is floating about en- the surface OF ,u'
newspaper sea and got into tie columns OF 'hS
Journal. Mr. Tlmycr has no merry for Such po'u'"
of ,he musical l)manccr- mind - he writes card I'd
SAY that the story II just one of those SHY iaoo~
tons which are always copied far and Wide ana ~
last are accepted rs true.
In the way ot pcr> nal intelligence Mr. Thsyer'
card brings the following: -
81 am sorry to say that my head and we' sun Rrc
vent from going on Nun NY us s'I TNie Prs week
or Two since gives Roston an immense pun VIII" ia
course plca:es me- am mning III nc . Ii,sHsrInr d
y"n1e men aud women, some 10 in n"moe|'
Mr. RcrnarduS Boehilman. whose zeal mn>'cu
nct,gocy is well known, has recently tufhiheu ITO.
| cv.icuce of It In the shape OF unique puor"?n "
tour of the most familiar fngue' from h"chs wen
/ ,c,,on.a c.ychord.r With them he has aenn'
,ed a noyel system of analytical study MS iuP0~
lain, at one and the time to eneouraee mu'io
-. =, analyze The structure Of polyphOnlc uuso
n, Co soye time In such study BY raising tue pep
which the eve gives NJ a higher power VIC '",
| .,,,,i, all the details OF his system OUT u.s.
,cish,nr feature hes in the employment OF a'aeen'
,ors IA distinguish the constituent parts OF INC 'Ns
~. nrovison of a separate scheme In when 1'o ~
rn,ic structure CT the composition is laid bare pes
ASCENSION Of the pecuari,les Of each fasue' YIN.
:, such A manner as 10 make the work OF r1e@.
smule and easy. Each f'lsuc is also aeeomp'msN ~,
an explanatory preface and HIST OF apno, 'aa.ha,
| ucrtaining to the form. That composer anu ~
,,,., ncsr greatly Interested by Mr.. BoeSenahs
ecrtoLinc is proven by the tributes when me-. WIN
q ~. Chadwick Arthur Fo0tc, 4. A. Mcpo"c al,
INN Mason II. W. Nlcoll and Samuel T. "arre" a, 3.
couotry and 4. NJ. Dcvernoy, Niels w ~.,,sr
Ce,n,heim AleAandcc Guilmsnt. August "o"' ling,
Moclnrren A. C.. Mackenzie, Carl keihco", r,s
Eicmann ard Mou,l ROsenthal have pau
fugues are admirably printed. Boston: A'"'''
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