New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-21

VICTOR HERBERT.
Conductor of the Pittsburg Orchestra, which is TO
play here this week.
advice and friendship of Brahms, to whom he had
been recommended He won the Mendelssohn
Stipend in 1891 with pianoforte suite and a set
Of songs and carried off the Vienna Tonkiinstler-
pres in 1892 with set of quarets for mixed voices
Last spring he the prize for a pianoforte com
position offered by THE Musical Record of Bos-
ton He has written in many forms, from songs
TO a symphony In his musical investiture of
Goethe's allegorical poem Mr. Saar has adopted
formal division plainly suggested by the poem itself
A recitative melodious but declamatory, gives ex-
preston TO the opening apostrophe, an andante
expressive into the orchestral part of which Phio-
mers song is woven pictures the passionate eniov-
ment of so characteristic of the poet and his
longing for the companionship of natures God and
an eager rushing Allegro suggestive of the upward
flight OF Joves eagle that bore Ganymede from
Mount Ida to heaven, hymns the poets highest
aspirations. The programme for the concert is as
follows
Overture. The Flying Dutchman'' ....w Wagner
'Ganymed for cOntraO voice and orchestra.
Mime. schumann-Henk v Sa'''
Der Kreutzzug Schubert
Nine. schumann.Henk + RAM
Overture. Promeheus Bound .............. Goldmark
The sale Of seats for the concert to be given at
Carnegie Hall Tuesday evening February G. in
aid of the Dewey Arch Fund, will begin at Tysons
and the box office of Carnegie Hall tomorrow
morning. In Mr.. Walter Damrosch's ''Te Deum''
the solo parts Will be in the hands of Nine Gadsh
Miss Horlocker Evan Williams and Julian Walker
and the following singers will be heard in the en-
sembles: Sopranos, Miss Natalie Dunn Miss Mary
H. Mansfield and Miss Eva Gardner Coleman; con-
traItos, Miss Belle Newport and Miss Carrie Brad
well; tenors, E. Ellsworth Giles and George Will
lam jenkins, and bassos. Gwiym Miles and Herbert
Witherspoon Nine Nordica will sing the In
hammatus" from Rossini's "Stabat Mater" and
Mime. Gadsh the aria Ocean, thou mighty mon
ster,' from Weber's "Oberon" NJ Edouard de
Reszke's solo is TO be announced later
Opera in German is to be continued by Mr.. Am
berg at the Germana Theatre this week On Tues
day evening Der Freischutz' will be given, with
FrAulein Hofacker and Wilhelm Xaulin in the cast
and on Wednesday and Saturday evenings I'll
Trovatore," with Frau Moran-Olden and Herr
Perotti.
Following are the songs which have been most
frequently asked for and will therefore be sung by
Mr.. Bispham at his Request" recital in Mendels-
sohn Hall next Thursday evening:
adelaide. 'De Ehre Cottes. Beethoven
Vie Dist du K0ngin' Meme Icbe is
Widmung Die Lotosbume ''FrrhIings i7''''-AiS
Du Dist Run Der 1rk5nig .chnSera
i ~, ar Franz
Npr die sehnsucht kermit TschaiEowsEy
Who is sylvia t GEeg
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Drink to Ne Only win Thine Eyes LAG Lf EnpaR
Danny Deever" .Damrosch
The second concert Of the Dannreuther String
| Quartet will take place at sherrys next Thursday
| evening. Frederick Howard, barytone, and Felix
Fox. pianoforte. will assist and the chamber music
pieces will be Haydn's Quartet in D. op. So No C:
| Dvoraks quartet in A fat op 1O5 and Brahms's
| Quintet, op. "a.
The third evening concert in the series given by
| fha afcafn tro rfa+v -
| Hall on Tuesday evening. The programme will in
| clude Haydn's String Quartet in D. op &C. No 3;
| Beethoven's in e minor op. So No. q and Faure's
| Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte, played by Mr.
| Kneisel and Nine Antoinette Szumowska-A dam
owski. of Boston. The Beethoven Quartet is the
second of set of three that he published
| in January, 1S0S and dedicated to his friend
! Count Rasoumoffsky wherefore the three are
| generally known THE Rasoumoffsky Quartets"
| They are generally deemed to be among the
most vigorous and enthusiastically beautiful
| Of Beethoven's works in this form. Men
| delssohn was accustomed to say that the first OF
this set and the one in minor, op 95 were the
most Beethovenish Of all Beethoven's works
/ Count RasoumOffsky a Russian nobleman for
many years Ambassador to the Imperial Court at
! vienna. He was an enthusiastic amateur of music
and himself player of the second violin in his
| famous quartet party led by Schuppanzigh The
| cOseness of Beethoven's relations to him is indi-
Gated by the fact that three of his greatest works
are dedicated to him besides this set of quartets
the flrth ana Pastoral symphonies 0ointly with
Prince Lobkowtz). The quartets were written in
| 1903, time when Vienna and the neighborng conn
| try were overrun by the French army. Beethoven
| spent the summer Of that year at the country
houses of the Count of Brunswick In Hungary, and
| of Prince Lichnowsky, in Silesia. There he
posed his Sonata in f Called the "Appassionata'D
and at about the same time besides the quartets
the Pianoforte Concerto in G. the Fourth Symphony
and the thiry-two variations in minor for piano
forte. Out of compliment to the friend to whom
] he Paa4i 81 E,,s-
sian theme in the first of the set and another in
the second. That in the second to be heard on
Tuesday. is made the subject OF the fugato form
ing the trio OF the second movement. Gabriel Ur-
balm Faure, whose sonata for violin and pianoforte
is TO be played at the concert has won his place
among the most prominent of French composers
though his music has made slow Roadway outside
his native land. Some of his songs are not I'M
familiar. and his sonata has been publicly played
in New York 1t published In 1878 NJ Faure
a. .hs. old - -.