The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-15

In view of the fact that Emil sauer ard
Moriz Rosenthal are both to appear in st.
Paul shortly, the following critiques from
the New York papers are OF interest:
OF Emil Sauer, the piano virtuoso, SO much
has for years been seen. said and written
even his colleagues never missed the chance
Of pradsing him Unfortunately so long as he
remained abrcad-that expectation ran ex-
ceedingly high when he made his first ap-
pearance here ait the Metropolitan opera
And SO it came that the vast theater could
scarcely have held a much larger and GER
tainly not a more eager assembly though the
attraction had been a favorite opera inter-
preted by a star cast.
Herr Sauer was received with great
diality from the outset. His first number was
long before he had reached the Henselt con-
certo, with which number the programme
was brought to a most effective conclusion,
he had triumDhed completely.
He is, indeed, an extraordinary artist, COM
bining In his person not only the various
possessing certain qualities which are dis
tinctive,y his own. His touch is exquisitey
beautiful. 1t is, moreover living tone that
he draws from the instrument, a tone pure
and sweet that it seems at times to come
from the throat of a singer, not from a
structure of wood, and wire.
Equally beautiful is his technique. Such
even scales, such airy octaves have not often
been heard here. Yet the player never boasts
OF this side of his art It is wondrously
spiritual and poetic, not an obtrusive tech
nique When necessary he is as dreamy any
pianist, and when the occasion calls for it he
can become as mpestuous-remember the
manner in which he fairly Numbered forth
the finale OF the Bach-Tausig fgure-as a
lion.
However, all these things have been heard
before.
There is still another side to his playing,
and in this he stands quite alone. 1t is his
pdani1simo, or rather the graduation of tons
between his plano and his pianissimo. The
listeners were amazed and delighted with
that, as you could plainly hear by the i'll sup.
pressed "Ahs!" that came from all parts Of
the house whenever the player added still
another nuance of delicacy, when every one
had thought that the utmost limit of delicacy
had already been reached
1t was like zephyr blowing through
harp. and the ladies sat entranced; they had
found new idol and. worthy one. They
Herr sauer is not only superb artist. but
has personality that is as eccentric and as
weird as can well be imagined
The musical season set in with an electric
rush last evening for at the piano, in Car
negie hall, there sat that Titan of piano
He is still the Waelsung of the keyboard,
and has grown to be something more and bet
ter than that. An artist now Of the highest
type, capable Of giving the listener as much
delight in dainty tribe like Henselts Isl
oiaeau j'etais, as IN bewildering exhibition
piece such LISTS "Don Juan" fantasy.
Which means not only that Moriz Rosen-
thals art has become mellower, his intelli-
gence keener, his touch purer, finer and more
BEAUTIFUL but that his SympaThieS have
grown wider and his feeling deeper than be-
fore.
Indeed, the artist may now be said to have
reached the very zenith of his powers-a fact
that the audience. which was great In num-
bers and deliriouSy demonstrative, was not
slow to recognize.
Manager Feldhauser will tomorrow place on
sale at Howard. Farwell & Co.'S the remain
der of the unsold seats In the Peoples church
for the Library-schubert club series OF con-
certs. The fact that the stage will not have
to be enlarged for the remaining concerts,
places about 125 drst-class seats at the dis
posal of the public. These will go at IS for
the series, or 50 for single concert The
other sittings can be had at $3.50 for the Sc
ries, and $3.50, SLIPS and 81 for individual
tickets. Moriz Rosenthal will be the next
attraction, and will appear Feb. Q.
Since Sarasate no violinist has had such .
sensational success In Berlin as the young
virtuoso, Willy Burmester, who Is to appear
at the Peoples church Jan. 81. He was born
in Hamburg in March. 1869. One of his earli-
est wishes as 9 child was to possess violin.
and for hours he labored to make one out Of
two pieces Of wood. When he was four years
old his studies began under his father.