New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-30
MUSICAL COMMENT.

THE WEEKLY CALENDAR-LEOPOLD MO-
ZARTs GRAvE-ANCTENT GREEK
MUsIC-NEws NOTES AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
| Following Is the local musical calendar for the
current week:
SundayScottish Rite Hall. p. m. chamber music
concert by Edward and Carl Hermann
Monday American Theatre. s15 p: m.. opera In
English. Romeo and Juliet" tall week.; Chick
analytical pianoforte recital
Hall 2'o M pa1noioTse re-
Henry G. Hanchett.
wednesaaynWssner Hall nrs9klyn m lecture ;tn
Sy Gar FSne sS ann ysn by
citation Hall, Brooklyn
Thursday ssoclat!on Hall. Brooklyn. sl5 p m.
song recital by Emma Juch and Divide Musin;
recital by Paul Hidden.
Frday-Carnegie Hall. p. m. first public rehearsal
81 S the paO ana sons Mo- 81 w Mts
ave; p. m. William c. Carrs organ recital,
First Presbyterian Church.
Se Hail. ss Fsi
Aumna io Tn"
Songs and Dances" by Mr.. and Mrs. Krehbiel
and Miss Lolita Mills.
The first public rehearsal and concert OF the
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Hall next Friday afternoon and Saturday even
ing. AS usual II is the incident which opens the
serious season In music, and II therefore invites a
resumption of The Tribunes weekly calendar. Miss
Aus der Obe will play Brahms's pianoforte concerto
In fiat. The orchestral numbers will be Berioz $
overture to 'Benvenuto Cellini" and Beethoven's
seventh symphony. The advance subscriptions are
this year 81 400 larger than last. This speaks well
for the loyalty OF the Philharmonic Society's sub
scribcrs.
There is tradition. says the author Of a new
book on last century music, that Mozart's widow
and her second husband. with whom she lived In
such comfort ard contentment she knew
during her first marriage, Inferred in the
grave first occupied by the composers father 1t IL
in the Sebastian Kirchhof in Salzburg Nine Nissen
she who had been Constance Mozart. nee Weber
(she cousin to the composer OF Der
Freischdtz'). outlived her second husband sixteen
years. and though she had not taken the trouble
10 note the location Of Mozarts grave she provided
Nssen with tombstone and an epitaph which
celebrated all his virtues and worldly achievements
and wound up with pitiful example Of mortuary
verse Thirty years ago the old grave-dlgger who
had buried the pair used to tell visitors that the
grave In which Nissen first laid. and then his
widow, had been that of the composers father.
OF that fact Constance left sign Plainly. the
tender care which she received from the petty
Danish councillor weaned her from whatever love
she had for the Mozarts The Investigations upon
which these statements we're based were made by
the author OF Music and Manners In the CLASH
cal Period" at the time Of the centennial ceebra-
ton OF Mozarts death in 1891. Since then the facts
have been verified and 1t has also been learned that
the tomb. just one hundred years ago. was also the
receptacle OF the remains Of Constance Mozart's
aunt. the mother of Carl Maria Won Weber. TIE
Mozarteum. an international foundation In Salz-
burg. has now caused a tablet to be placed upon
no RI Ala
place. discovered April g. 1898. OF Leopold Mozart
one time Archiepscopa Vice hapelmaster: born
November IA. 17ls at Augsburg; died May q. 1884,
and OF Frau Genofeva Bremen. died In the
thirty-frst year Of her life. March 10. 1885, the
mother OF Carl Maria von Weber" Concerning
her Mr.. Krehbiel also has something to say in his
chapter on Weimar while discussing the influence
Of Goethe upon the operate performances at the
Grand Ducal Theatre. He notes an announcement
OF Nine. Webers appearance as Constance IN
Mozarts "Entfuhrung aus dem Seral' on June 16
1894 and adds: Carl Maria Won Weber eight
years old at the time. His mother remained
member OF the company from June TO September,
1884, but her name does not appear the house
bills after the occasion just noted. fancy that she
did not succeed. The composers talent was In
herted from his father. Major Franz Anton
Weber. a soldier. who was so passionately fond Of
music that he carried his violin with him his
promenades. Finally. It is said. HIS devotion TO
music caused him neglect his duties off,
Ger. and he discharged from the service. He
retired private life, and finally became profess
siona musician The mother OF Carl Maria
Weber his second wife. The archives Of the
Weimar Theatre contain several letters from him,
In of which he deplores that he ever left Wei
mar. having yielded to bad advice. and In another
offers TO sell the score Of an opera composed by his
young son. which showed great talent. The opera
was 'SI.yana.'"
a considerable interest In the subject OF ancen;
Greek music may be LOGGED for the part OF stu
dents of the classics In New York. from the fact