The herald., 1896-01-20
HERR ANTON SCHOTT, TENOR
Will Be Heard Once More ID
This City
THE WORLDS MUSIC LOVERS
Acknowledge Him to Be q High Ex.
ponent of Grand Music
A Voice That Reaches the Very Climax q
Effort, Full Of Intense Emotion, Hereis
Yet Always Sweet

At a concert recently given in Music hall
few, a very few, people heard one Of tho
worlds great tenors. This brief opening
sentence seems, and is, paradoxical. Ono
is led to inquire why, if the central figure
of the evening is. as stated, ''one of the
| worlds really great tenors," that there
were only few persons present to hear
him?
While not certain as to the correct
answer to the question, it is safe to say
that the strange juxtaposition of facts 10
not due to a lack of musically intelligent
and musically appreciative people in Los
Angeles. The solution is not found in that
hypothesis for it has been demonstrated
time and again that lovers of music do live
here. Culture and it's handmaiden, love of
music, have their home in this city to q
| markedly pronounced degree and 1t IL not
along this line that an answer to the ques-
ton found in the first paragraph will b
found.
Fortunately, the answer can be dispensed
with. At the time critics were inclined to
upbraid the public for its laxity and its
perversitv for remaining away, but that,
perhaps, would have been wrong. The 70.
luton to the peculiar situation first referred
to is not necessary, and those who care to
take advantage of the opportunity may yet
hear the distinguished tenori.
Many hundreds of ladies and gentlemen
have since regretted not having attended
the concert last Friday night. Herr Schott
is one of the greatest living singers and
Los Angeles has seldom, if ever. had the
great good fortune to have such an artist in
its midst. At his next appearance he
should be given an ovation.
Mr.. G. S. Cornell, leading musician OF
this city, as result of much pursuasion
and diplomatic effort, succeeded late last
night in gaining Herr Schott's consent to
repeat the first performance: This viii
take place on Thursday evening at some
! hall not yet decided upon but which will b
| announced in the press tomorrow. As to
who and what Herr Anton Schott is, the
following may prove interesting:
Anton Schott was born of a noble family
in the neighborhood of the "Sehwarzwalds
near the celebrated royal castle "Hohens-
taufen." Germany, where Frederic Bar
barrossa was throned. He was educated in
the same university (Karls-schule) where
the greatest German poet, Frederick V.
Schiller. graduated just. 100 years. ago.
after which he entered the renowned Ger
man military school of LudwigsburR to
study military science.
During the Franco-German war, 1870
and 1871, he commanded as captain .
battery, and the many medals which adorn
his breast give proof of his valor a. . sol
dier. He was the lion of the day in society
and one of the favorite officers of the court
of Emperor William. His first instruction
in singing he received by Mrs. David F.
| Strauss (author of The Life of Jesus), for
merIy celebrated singer on the German
stage. After years Of musical and dra-
matte study in Germany and Italy he was
again found engaged as tenori robusto at
the Royal opera in Munich, Bavaria.
| Crowned with unprecedented success, he
has acquitted himself in the operas in Ber-
| lin, Vienna, London, New York and else
| where.
PhiIip Sousa. the great leader. saws Of
| this artist:
s'Among the matchless heroes of German
dramatic art the names of the peerless ten
ors, Anton Schott and Albert Niemann,
will go down to posterity among the first.
Wagner has had no higher exponents of his
great as an interpreter of the exacting
Wagner roles or of the tender sentiments
of an Italian serenade. With his noble
presence, his exalted style, his pure
method and his feeling and soulful express
sion of every phase of the lyric art, he has
commanded the enthusiastic plaudits OF
the audiences of all great theatere in Eu-
rope. Anton Schott, the favorite alike Of
German, Italian. French and English
audiences, will record new triumphs among
| the appreciative music lovers of the new
world.''
The Cincinnati Enquirer says:
| The name of Herr Anton Schott was the
magic which drew the largest audience Of
| the season yesterday. There were nearly
| 1000 people gathered in Music hall to en-.
| Joy the concert. The great tenor of the
| Wagnerian world took his hearers by
! storm.
They were 10th to let him 60 even after
still tower of strength, reaching the very
climax of efforts, full of intense emotion
| and powerful descriptiveness, heroic, yet
at all times sympatheticaliy sweet.