The San Francisco call., 1896-11-05
Miss Rosa1ind E11icott, One of the
Coming Composers.

Coming Composers.
ballad for mems voices and orchestra, which
was given at the annual concert at Queens
College, Oxford, while her part song, Bring
the Bright Garlands," was given by the Bristol
Madrigal Society with such success that the
composer was promptly elected a member of
the incorporated Society OF Musicians, which
was then holding a conference in Bristol.
Miss Elltcott has remarkable musical men,
ory, being able to carry a whole movement in
her head before writing il out 1t is scarcely
necessary to add that she does her own orches-
tration She is q good singer and is in great
requisition as soprano soloist at concerts.
Further explanations are to hand with re-
gard to the Wagner manuscript discovered al
Zurich. Itseems that in 1873 NJ. Hegar con-
ductor OF the leading orchestra in that town.
organized musical fete in commemoration
of the twenty-Hfth anniversary of The three
grand concerts Wagner had given in Zurich,
and Wagner sent him for the occasion, through
his editor in Paris, number of orchestral
scores. On the reverse of the sheets were
some fragments of music written in the hand
OF the Bayreuth master. Hegar did not attach
much importance to them until this year,
when the idea came into his head OF examin-
ing them and reconstructing from them an
entire symphony, which in the manuscript
bore this title, Second Concert Overture, the
orchestraiion OF which Is not completed" At
first 1t was hoped that this overture was one OF
the nine compositions that Wagner wrote on
Goethe's Faust" of which six only figure in
the archives at Bayreuth. Now that yerifea-
tions have been made it is discovered that the
Zurich manuscript is not unpublished, Tor il
Is the sketch for the overture IN G major,
which was played in 1882 al Leipsic, in 1873
The Flemish Lyric Theater at Antwerp has
just produced unpu bllshed opera by Jan
Block, called "Herbergprincess'' (Frincess of
the 1nn). The occasion was G veritable SOL
emnity; there were orations. ovations, palms
and embraces. for however great the enthusi-
asm OF the Latin peoples can become on occa-
sion 1t is not to be compared to Flemish enthu-
siasm when the people of Flanders once get
egged on to enthusiasm. The success won by
the opera was largely merited. The libretto by
M de There is simple, even naif; 1t treats of
the eternal combat between pure love and
yen1al love, between good and evil. young
musician, Merlin, arandons his tancee for the
princess OF an inn, willy enchantress who
tries to battle the pure affection of the fancee
on every point. The opera ends with a scene
of carnage, which goes to show that in this
world virtue is rarely rewarded, but that vice
is generally punished. The Flemish papers
say OF Jen Blocks score that he is the
Teniers of music, and the comparison seems to
be just. for he seems able to touch the popular
heart and make ii vibrate as Teniers did
with his paintings. "The Princess of the Innn
is being translated from Flemish TO French,
and will soon be represented in that language.
An interesting letter. contributed by Felix
Draesecke to a Dresden newspaper, describes
how Richard Wagner first conceived the idea
OF an invisible orchestra. 1t was at Paris,
during his stay there from 1889 to 1872 he
frequented the concerts at the Conservatoire
One day he arrived little late and had to
wait TIL the end of a mum Der in place where
he was separated from The hall by wooden
screen, which did not extend to the roof how
ever. While standing there, Wagner remarked
that the effect of the invisible orchestra was
magnificent, and that the sound had unity
which the orchestra did not possess when
heard in the hall. From that moment he pro-
posed to produce similar eff CT, and dreamed
of building theater where he could carry out
the reform.
There is good deal of statue-mania all over
Europe, but it is in Germany and France es
pecially that the people delight in "statufy.
ing' local celebrities. A comical instance of
how this can be pushed to the borders of ridi-
cue has happened at Ruhla, in GERMANY
The burghers of Ruhla erected monument
to the composer Lux, in the supposition that
he was the author of the popular Thuringian
m elody, "Ah. How Is 1t Possible Thenr,
monument for one melody was paying dear
for it, but now the discovery has been made
that the melody in question was really written
by the well-known song writer, Kuchen. The
statue to Lux has become a luxury that the
people of Ruhla do not know how to dis
pose Of
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Mapleson's stars for his Western tour, has Just
made her Belgian debut at the Monnaie Thea
ter. LIE Menestrel says of her: "The beautiful
debutante displayed q magnifcence in her
toilette and jewelry which amply confirmed
all the advance notices. With regard to her
powers as singer and an actress the best that
one can say is that her pretty little voice and
evident desire to please were insufficient for a
Stage like that of the Monnaie"
1t is stated that the relatives of the late
Katherine Klafsky are bringing q suit for libel
against certain person who circulated the
rumor that the famous singer committed SUI
eide. 1t is q strange fact, however, that very
few details of Klafsky's last sickness and death
have been made public.
The Emperor of Austria has just conferred
on Carl Goidmark the cross of the Order of
Leopold, which authorizes the wearer 10 de-
mand hereditary titles OF nobility. The Wien.
nese newspapers. in commenting on this. nav
q number of well-deserved CONF mpliments to
the composer.
For the inauguration of the monument To
the celebrated painier Antoine Vatican in the
garden of the Luxem bourg, in Paris, Gustava
Charpentier has written 8 cantata in honor Of
the master who painted so many French beam
ties.
Edouard Remenyi, the veteran violinist. ia
expected in this City on Saturday He win hs
the guest OF Professor SauFlet ana in all