Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-21

digious in itself, he a short time ago |,
completed his first symphony. In add
ton to his he has conducted the Pitts
burg Symphony concerts, written a
suite for strings, a concerto for 'cel!o
and full orchestra, and a symphonic
poem, Still more, Herbert's famous /
Twenty-Second Regiment band of New
York has added three new compositions
to its library, signed by its genial con-
ductor. e..
About forty-three years of age; big
and burly of figure, with a round and
| ruddy face of rolicking expression, deep
Irish blue eyes and wavy black hair
pushed carelessly back from his strong, |
square forehead, Herbert would first b.
taken for, perhaps, the CHEEKY self.suf-
ficient master of some big ocean liner;
| but on second and closer scrutiny you
| would perceive the artist sticking out
| all over him. and when he whistled or
| hummed quietly and th%oughtfully, as he
| Enthusiastically would in a minute,
| you at once would a y "Of course-hoW
| stupid; he is a musician beyond doubt
| When he laughed loudly and satisfactor-
| lily, as he does, you would add, "Ah, he
is a good fellow, too" In a. interior
way, Victor Herbert is more interesting
still, for he has the soul of a true and
large calibered musician, and the gem
tie, scholarly, refined, yet temperament
tai mind of a poet and a deep lover OF
nature. Generosity is his most marked
trait, and on one side. at least. it
amounts to a real fault: he is the most
wholesale spendthrift of money of which
one can conceive. This fault and hearty
good nature he projects most when
struggling hardest to suppress them.
! Mr.. Herbert married Augusta Forster,
one of DIR. Damrosch's most beautiful
and talented prime dome, just before
she sailed to fulfil her first operate en-
gagement in America Cat the Metropol-
itan opera house, New York;, about fif-
teen years ago. Herbert, then a poor
and struggling teacher of cello in Stuff
CART, could nc more bear the thought of
his betrothed sailing away from him
than she could entertain the idea of re-
linquishing such an engagement. Wo-
mans wit suggested the s~olution-the
We're married forthwith, and Da1nrosch,
hearing Herbert play, at once gladly
engaged him for the Metropolitan or
: chestra. Thus commenced Herbert's
American career. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
, have two charming children-a girl of
> thirteen years and a boy of nine, who.
since Sarah Grand's successful novel,
\ have been widely known throughout the
: musical colony of New York as the
l Heavenly Twins Both inherit strong
ly the gift of musical expression, which,
= Of course, is not at all singular.
e Victor Herbert's father was an Irish
Y L 1laQ-au p artist ny RIOlGSSlOu.h AE111s
t mother, a daughter of Samuel Lover.
s the Irish novelist, was an excellent am
s ateur musician. Herbert's father dice
in Paris when Victor was but a chile
of three, and, with his mother and, sis
h ter, the embryo musician went to the
home of his literary grandparent IL
h London. In this home and under, the
: kindly influence of the creator of Han
dy Andy" the future composer wa
feeling and ability while very young
n and his af1uent grandfather insisted
when Victor reached the e of nine
n that he be taken to Germany for edu'
cation and training. Herbert stayed
9 there until he married and came to thi!
country as related. He studied unde
various teachers in Leipsig, Munich ant
" Berlin, and finally went to Stuttgart a.
a teacher in the c~onservatoire. Here h,
studied theory, counterpart and compo
sition under good masters and eventu
ally finished under Raft and Rein
ecke.
In America, after hard struggle
a against poverty and it's encouragement
n latter widely varied engagements at al
sorts of "potboiling," he sat down t
write something worthy of his best in
SEPARATION. His now celebrated Concert
in f minor (Opus y was the result. l
instantly attracted the attention Of An
is ton Seidl, who proclaimed it a maste
work n invited Herbert to play it wit
he 1 III III loulC at a vi
concert In New York. Receiving a.
q ovation on this occasion, both for hi
composition and his own superb rem
dering of the solo part, the young arts
at last felt firm ground under him an
re saw clearly for the first time the lad
ns der of fame and fortune before him.
i. soon Joined Seidrs orchestra as frs
%'cellist. and in less than a year was mad
II. concert-meister to compose with fever
t. ish intensity, all sorts of things, every
st thing-songs, band music, comic opera:
10 concertos and on to symphonic poems.
so From this point to the present the mt
st steal reader is familiar with his work
n and his success. AS far as New YOrl
4 Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia. Cincin
ne lnati, Detroit and Pittsburg are concern
a ed, and these are the leading music;
be centers of the states, Victor Herbert
of unquestionably considered the best An
lie erican light opera composer of the da.
at and easily in the front rank with E. !
In Mcdowell. G. w. Chadwick, John +
or Paine and Horatio Parker in the noble
forms of orchestral writing. en-.