New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-12
Nv MEMORY or HEINRICH HEJNE.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS or THE FAIR TO BEGIN
NEXT SATURDAY TO RAISE MONEY To con-
PIETE THE MONUMENTAL PAPER
ny WILLIAM STEINWAY

BY WILLIAM sTEINwAY.
There is every indication that the fair TO raise
Sc coo 10 complete the $4,000 fund for monument
| TO the memory of Heinrich He!ne by The German
| Americans of this city viii be great success. This
| fair will open AZ Terrace Garden next Saturday
! evening and will be continued for two weeks. The
gum Of $4,000 has been raised by the subscriptions
of twenty prominent German Americans of this city.
| each contribution being 500 Among those subscrib-
| ing are Oswald Ottendorfer, William Steinway,
! George Ehret and other wel-known members OF
| the L.ederkranz Arion and other German societies.
| 1t is conceded that the women have been the most
| active and persistent agents in urging the men to
! subscribe and in planning the fair
| William stenwoy, who requested by his
! German-Americar friends 10 prepare paper upon
the yrco-musca qualities of Heines verse has
prepared the following paper, watch has received
| much praise:
"Es negt musk DARN" there is music in every
| neJ is purely German phrase. Il has Deen usti
withsanding the expression is full Of deep sgn.I-
For Of all arts is not music the mGSi dili-
ciate its beauties. you can even paraphrase these
! beauties but explain them in language you cannot.
! OF course theorists have enicaVored 10 prove
why certain things in, music are beautiful and why
aerman nre Won nS Hehoa has gene 50 far as
! to argue why Mozarts Ave Verum Corpus IN
gsvey a tells as US that the of this
other than Moznr strict S, o m 5 Of ine
PAIN and are we the more snlightened for the s
/ scientific researches Mozart knew no more OF the
existence Of these acoustic laws than the MILLIONS
who have been moved and transported by his Ave
| 1t would be equally futile to try to explain why
the poetry of Heinrich Helne j. permeated vita
music. There's music in It, says the voice OF the
| people trying in this ingenious manner to explain
what is simply inexpcabe; for only music is more
style such as Heinrich He.ne certainly was, can
not express in words all that he feels, and II the
reader perceives between the words and the lines
much which the author left TO the imagination then
strong affinity between poetry and music Is IN
! rahlv fba hiS n @
part of the lyric poet is shared by one quickly
| so completely. as by the true composer. And how
how they vled with another to clothe the beau
tiful words in the most beautiful melodies! Not
| To reproduce in tones the glory Of Heines poems
was reserved for the greatest the most symps hetic
mann. Franz List Anton Rub.nste;n and Carl
Loewe contrved. however, to establish so close
| tone eodies that at the present day We can no
longer separate the poems from the melodies i1e
OF pas Meer'' CThe Seal for instance. note the
The inspiration which Heine has furnished to the
lyric composer is prodigous. indeed. beyond all cai-
and the originality OF his style convinced the sensi
tive musician that new and characteristic form oil
number of the most lovely creations in musical lit.
erature are directly traceable 10 the influence OF
! Heinrich IIeine.
And in some OF Henes poems, particularly in
the simplest ones. there is so much OF this music
only weakens the inherent musical effect 1t Is in
such that lyric poetry achieves her greatest
! tr.umphs Who. for instance, does not imagine
that he can distinctly hear the melody that lies
hidden in that delicious poem Du Dist vie cine
Blume' Chou Art Like a Lovely Flower? our
very soul thrills: but it is not strange that among
the array OF composers who have ava.led
themselves of tbs gem Of German literature not
even the high priests OF music. such as Robert
schumann Franz List and Anton Rubnsten, have
1 succeeded In completely reproducing the exquisite
charm of Heinrich Heines poetry. For it has been
said Of Heines poems. and by no less an authority
than George Eliot. that they are so emphaiicaNy
Songs" that in reading them VIC feel as If each