New-York tribune., 1900-03-11
MUSICAL GOSSIP.
WEEKLY CALENDAR AND OPERA LIST
MORRIS STEINERTs "REMINISCENCES
INTERESTING PROGRAMMES
NOTES AND ANNOUNCE
MENTS

p n, special service, spohrs Last Judg-
Monday.-Metropolitan Opera House 7:sO p. m-
German opera, Tristan und Isolde; American
paxoo ali p Me: G NO Sers sis Vest " senenysec1
sadss Il Ffsl6o sT ePFT m X a4SSH
anee OF Faust by the Metropolitan company.
Mme sembTeh % Hote Majestic m Sg ssO 'GT4 m Iecf
qre by the Rev Hugh + Henry on The
p m, concert by the severn Trio
Opera House
s;l5 2; ms pian9forte 2fs recital by catharine
aS e ff'f' 6g Mrs $50 w q dfSsSg
New7York College Of Music Sis p, m, concert
Thursdsy-Carnegie Hall, $50 p. m, concert of the
Musical Art Society; Metropolitan Opera House
cycle. 'Das Rheingoid": Marble Collegiate
PERCY % se 2a Gfan BrookJn rocfi by R Rphad m
song and violin recital
sn 9PeTa "a Hoqss 5s % Ger
lecture on 'Die walkire'' by Mrs. W. S. crosby;
oenn recital shf BY J. MaTren hndews p m i'e'
Saturday Metropolitan Opera House. p. m.
lar foes: SA Academy of Music Brooklyn O6fa pona %
symphony Concert for Young People.
The operatic list at the Metropolitan Opera House
will be augmented by Beethoven's 'Fidelio' this
week and there will be repetitions Tristan und
Isolde" CAIonday). "Lohengrin'' "wednesday and
Faust Saturday afternoon). "Fideo" will be
given Friday evening, with Nine. Ternina in the
titular role. Mr.. Dippel F1orestan Miss Pevny
Marcelline Herr Bertram Pizzaro Mr.
Pringle Rocco. Herr Breuer as Jaquino and
Herr Muhlmann the Minister. Mr.. Paur will
conduct and the ''Leonore" overture, No g. will be
played between the first and second acts The sec
ond ''Nibeung" series will begin Thursday af-
ternoon with ''Das Rheingold," in which the parts
VIII be distributed in the evening series the
principal singers being Mesdames Brema (Fricka),
Schumann- -Heink (Erda and Flossh.lde) Olga
Pevny OVogIinde). Susan Strong CFreia). Rosa
Ontzka CWillgunde) and Messrs. Van Rooy (Wotan)
Van Dyck Noge). Friedrfchs (Alberich). Breuer
(Mime), Muhlmann Q0asoO and Pringlc CFafner).
After The Wagner festival at Bayreuth In 1885
Nine. Wagner wrote letter to Miss Brema In
which the following passage occurred:
think back with pleasure upon study of
Fr1cka- and l was glad that an unqualified sue
cess proved TO you what lofty task-one, indeed.
OF the very first importance-had fallen you
not long ago that the most powerful impress
sion which he had received in the of the
the second act Of Die WaIkire" You may say
oiess nocht NIGHT da wary. and that this impor-
fectively done for the first time by you! For this
my hearty thanks.
Some weeks ago the information carried far
and wide by the newspapers that Mr.. Morris
steinert, Of New-Haven had presented his large
collection Of keyed instruments Illustrating the
origin and development of the panoforte Yale
University. BY exhibiting a portion Of that collec-
ton at the Worlds Fair in 1893 Mr.. Steinert made
himself known to thousands of Americans who
might never have heard of him the founder of
one Of the largest and most successful planoforte
houses IN the land A year before Mr.. Steinert's
devotion TO the hobby which crowned his active
life and did much for the refinement and edifca-
ton Of the American people carried him and his
instruments 10 Vienna where he exhibited them
described and explained them, and played upon
them the Musical and Dramatic Exhibition; and
thus his name became known to savans and musi-
clans IN Europe also These things. the possession
of a handsome fortune the leisure which
from his withdrawal from commercial pursuits, a
lively intellect and CHEEKY disposition fondness for
enecdote and discourse and a comfortable opinion
OF those qualities which had made man Of wealth
and renown out of humble lad who had spent
the first years Of his life tramping through Ger
many Switzerland. Russia and Finland with
pedler's pack, probably furnished the promptngs
which led 10 the writing and publishing of a book
about himself. This has been published by &C. P.
Putnam's Sons under the title. "reminiscences Of
Morris Stenert; Compiled and Arranged by Jane
Marlin
The story Of Mr. Steinert's life is large IN nothing
except that TO which he devotes the least space
his eventual success as a dealer in pianofortes-
sprigftly manner Of recountng its incidents
(Which IS made halt few times in the early
pages by his literary secretary's tendency to drop
!nto poetry and the indestructible good humor
which a saving grace in the midst of hardships
and nisfortunes of many kinds give interest and
entertainment TO his every page. He tells with
pretty affection the outset Of the little Bayarian
village of Scheinfed where he born, and when
rich and respected he journeys back to the home
OF childhood its simple beauties warm his heart.
and unconscoUsly his artless art stirs the sym
pathy of his readers for the little place which is
Ike hundreds Of other villages its distinction
want OF distinction There is many twinkle of
the eye hidden between the lines Of the life
like the euphemism used TO describe hts early oc-
cupation. "lecJuring and selling optical goods.
which finally gives way TO tine palmer selling
spectaces' when he tells about his tramp into
Massachusetts from Albany in the company of
partner who sold fancy goods. So too. with his
musical LetmotiV, Besthoven's Adelaide" which
his sweetheart sings in Russia, vagabond 'celst
plays IN Pittsheld. and Mrs. Bitz's sister, with
whom he, per consequence promptly falls in love,
warbles at q performance of Buckley's Serenaders
fn Broadway. To :his band of mnstrels. by the
way, Mr.. Steinert belonged for a time. playing the
violonceo in the orchestra, as he also did at the
opera IN Castle Garden. He Ilso sought his fortune
pianoforte tuner and teachc7 in the South. and
leader of an orchestra and organizt in New-Haven.
IN that city, which has since been his home, he
started in business in 1855 with small stock of
second hand pianofortes. Some OF his early
periences in New-England worth repeating
especially the following. which not only sketches
& New England character, but also, unless have
panoforte:
One day while in Cheshire / called upon
tune the piano Of Deacon r. II a terribly hot
day, and must say that my temperament in
piano. which was fr1ghtfully out OF tune. almost
forgot that I in lovely Cheshire, felt trans
The seven bierstuben and longed for glass of the
eitxtr of Gambrinus In my desire for the beer |
looked ct the old Deacon while / made a good
stretch the treble string Of his piano, and my
German nature asserted itself and l calmly asked
him whether he had any beer in the house not;
whereupon he put his hand behind his ear
rejecting resonator for his musical tympanum. and