The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20

Brussels Conservatory under Leonard, but,
having more than his usual share OF the artis-
tic tendency TO resent rivalry, he shook the
dust OF the conservatory from his feet at the
age OF Is because he had been debarred on ac-
count of his youth from receiving a prize.
Marsick went to Paris and graduated at the
conservatory, after which the seal of success
was set upon him by Vieuxtemps, who pub
licly embraced the young violinist Tor playing
his fourth concerto. Marsick is we'll known
the Colonne and Lamoureux concerts, and has
also toured with success through Holland,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Russia
and England. This is his first visit to Amer
ica and partly owing to differences of opinion
with his manager he did not at first create the
enthusiasm in the East that was expected.
Lately, however, he has aroused considerably
more public interest. The critics have always
spoken in the highest terms of his scholarly
work, which is said to show to the best ad-
vantage in chamber concerts.
Siegfried Wagner, the son of the Bayreuth
master, has just created great sensation in
Vienna, where he was invited by Hans Richter
to make his first appearance before the Wen
nese public by directing an orchestral concert
at the Imperial Opera. The young man con-
Quoted with great sentiment the idylle of
''Siegfred," the delightful excerpt which the
happy father dedicated to his son when he was
only an infant in arms. Afterward Siegfried
Wagner attacked Beethoven's symphony in F,
and is said to have shown real talent as con-
ductor. The Fiennese were very anxious 10
hear his own cantata, ''HomeSickness" (Sehn-
sucht), which Siegfried Wagner has written on
Schiller's celebrated verses and which has
been already performed in Munich, but he ex-
cused himself from appearing as a composer
during his visit to Vienna. 1t is a quarter of a
century since Richard Wagner conducted in
the Austrian capital for the last time That
was in May, 1872, and he gave his concert TO
raise funds for the Bayreuth enterprise. More
than so 600 francs were cleared 1t is true
that Wagner offered the first fruits OF the
"Nibelungen." and among other fragments
the famous fire incarnation from the 'Valky-
rie," whose first execution has become legend
ary, for the elements mixed real lightning and
thunder with the music. The resemblance of
Siegfried to his father has been greatly COM
mented on in Vienna; his eyes, however, are
said to reflect vague souvenir OF his grand
father, Franz LisZt. Siegfried has been so much
sneered at as "the son or his father that it is
quite refreshing to find him receiving little
consideration on his own account.
Jennie Deans" the opera founded by Joseph
Bennett on Sir Walter Scott's novel, 'The
Heart of Midlothian" and composed by Ham
ish MacCunn, has just been given for the first
time in London. Scotland, OF whom it was
contcmptuously said not many years since
that she had not produced single composer
OF genius. seems now coming to the front in
this department. OF art, and among the most
talented writers must certainly be placed Mac
Cunn. His overture, Land of the Mountain
and the Flood" and symphonic poem "The
Ship o. the Fiend,'' have proved him a tone
poet of no mean order, and If his first essay in
grand opera cannot be called mas sterpiece if
at any rate is said to afford evidence that with
l,.a civ
world in the department of lyric drama which
the world will not willingly let die. Joseph
Bennett has taken just as much of the original
story as was convenient for his libretto
Cardinal Perraud, Bishop of Autun and a
member of the French Academy, has lust
written book music according to Plato
It's title is "Eurythmie ct Harmonic" The
author expounds the Platonic doctrine of the
assimilation OF ausic and morals, and devel-
opes this thought by quotations from the Scrip.
lures. ''The wise man is musician, and yirtne
is harmony"
A dispatch from Odessa says: "The Russiar
composer, Alexander Fedoroff has lust nro.
duced lyric drama, ''The Fountain of Tears -
which has been received with enormous en-
thusiasm at Ekaterinsolaf All the naners
speak in the highest terms of the music. the
libretto for which was based on a fable by
Pouschkine. French translation of .'The
Fountain of Tears" is already being made,
The Regio Theater at Turin has given the
first representation of Maestro Conti's new
opera 'sSavitri." The reception accorded the
work was favorable. but not enthusiastic
Nine calls were given the composer, but that
was very little for italy.
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