El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-14

Johannes BraF ms, the well known
musical compos r. who rec -ut-
ig died at Vienna, had been
fered from jaundice last autumn q d
went t. Carload, but the cure WIS
1neffect Va, aud he int dad to go TIE. e
| again tn summer. The disease RE
vrloped into cancer of the i've The
sufferer Was ait nded by P.pfe sor
Nothnaeel, who had alb md n d all
hop s OF he recovery of his patti. nj.
The latter was able to read alno St
until the last, and was kept in ig9o--
ance OF his serious co ID ton.
| J' haDneS Brahms was born Nav !,
1888, at Hamburg. and WAS brous h.
before the mus cal world in 1853 by
Schumann- He was known as one of
the greatest COMPOSERS, and his works
are known all over the world After
-everal years as director o. music at
the court of Lippe-Detnold he devoted
coGslderabie me to So du rus study
AMI com position in his MT We town.
Thence. in 1862 he pr &C.. ded To Wen
ma, winch city became his SecO home
h conducted the con er's of the so
ely Of Amateur Mu-i,.ians from 1872
10 1874, until Herbork, who had in the
meantime r. signed his post of court
director of music, resumed the func-
tons of that office.
Among his Later works are ''Rinal-
do" cantata: Schi:ksal-i d." "Tri-
umphlied,' ''Rnaps ,uies" from
q e he's ''Ha' tzrei>e,'' besides stri.
quariets, sympt o ies and a great mum
her OF songs, dues, choru<es, concer-
tos. motets, trioS, sexte's, &c. He
malnly followed Schumann's style in
his songs. H Zebra ed his sixtieth
birthday in 1893, on which occasion a
medal was ruck to commemorate the
evebt by the Vienna Soc ETY. of the
friends of music. He was one of the
bittere-t oppo rents of Wagner and the
W8gBerlna school.
Brahms was held by some to have
been the greatest contrapuutslist since
Bach, the greatest musical architect
since Beethoven; but in his songs he
was as simple, manly and tender as
burns. He waI pure musician, q
maker of absolute music, a man of
poetic ideals but appe l. d to the in
tellect rather than to the senses or the
emotions. He confned h 8 efforts t,
symphonic forms, chamber music
piano pieces, cho~al works and soogs.
Miss Florence Balls pupils gave a
piano recital laSa Saturday evening at
| The San Antonio street residence IF
Mrs NJ. w. Stanton. The parlors
were crowded with some of the best
mus1-1aLs 10 the city, aud the occasion
was m CHI enjoyed 'or the little ones
| showed marked aptitude for their
| york. The progsm was as follows:
Cradl. song, by Klnross, Cara Davis;
aged 9; b ,lade, Bergmu-iler, Della
tewrll; Or die song by Heller, two
pre.udes by del er, Da 7ce by Jen-
ecu, Alice Davis. Then there was
male quartet, The Bridge, from
Messrs Weston, Bro. enoroW, Brown
AID R'kaar; and Mss Beau he~s-.f
| f,vured the audience with Cnopin's G
sha p minor polouaiss. Masquerade
| by Mu-znuwski. and u N .cturne q, d
pre- ude by Chopin. The reci a
| closed by little Francis Moore, former
pvp.I OF Prof. Dewey, WHO pard two
| numb rs by Bergn'ueiier, md did r.
| ma kably vel. Among these ur--a;
| VIZ M IS Neaiy eveps, Mr.. j.
600 NJ, Mrs Robsrt-, Mrs Will
am NJ SIS Aoele Schultz ad oter
| MUSICIANS.
| Bandmas err Ellis Brooks # the SIT
| cOnd inftnLy lis, National .utrd,
mas written d marc L. cal I'd the ESQ r.
| March, a.ope Of ~ hich h has present.
| d TO the M G. nty band. lis bright.
| iv ly pie e of N oeic with a ry Tim NJ d
SANG p eassut t. lis Ell 10. and The
| melody Is ar glr al AMI musical. The
scUle inciud S the four saxaphone
parts.
The church hoirs throughout the
| unity ill he de D in vlOr u. ira ms
of Easter muse next SUNDAY, and in the
la ge cities the Episcopal and Cath Ollie
e tn dral- wi pa e incl sr d. aud =
noes with the ii est DIV tional rompO-
sit O. OF tt mas ers. 1t has of | te
ears come to be the thing in the
1greaser chnrc e5 to have orche-tr as to
asst the ORG an st, ani as hear by as
Denver, in ST. Johns cathed,a an or
pany the grea. organ under Prof.
Hnus leys ekilful fingers P-rhaps
Ell PasO W II have big Episcopal atbe-
DIAL WITH $40, 600 organ in three or
four years, and with surpl ced how choir
in addition to the hoir IF grown peo-
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