New-York tribune., 1901-01-06
MUSICAL NOTES.
THE WEEKLY CALENDAR CHAMBER
MUSIC BY THE KNEISEL QUARTET
OPERATIc LIST. FOR THE wEEK-A
VISIT FROM AN ENGLISH Or
GANIST-NoTEs, ANNOUNCE
MENTS AND PROGRAMMES.

opera. ADD. carnegle Hall s:i5 2: m; concert
District Nursing Department
Tuesday-M -Mendessohn Hall, ?. m, song recital by
cert Of chamber music by the Kneisel Quartet;
10. ss Flfth-ave.. p. m' concert OF Florence
wednesday-Metropolita Opera House. p: M.
German opera. 'Lohengrin'; No. ll3 East Thir-
by the Morgan Quartet
Thprsday-M -Mendelssohn Hall 3 p. m; song recital
by Mr.. and Mrs. Georg Hensehel; s15 p m,
& once a s on Sf mgas snsns soeey S
f5s PhiIhsTmOnic Society: Metropolitan Opera
music by Harold Bauer.
6aturiay-Carnegie Hall, 2:15 %. m. Young Peoples
symphony Concert; s:l5 p m, concert OF the
Ranes 8, 2ena Ge1ety' onsas e'f9Poan m
German opera, Iannhauser Mendelssohn
ossp ssi Gabriiowitsch I sh.4' u i'A'O'O''' '9-'
At the fourth public rehearsal and concert of the
Philharmonic Society. in Carnegie Hall next Friday
afternoon and Saturday evening. the people of New
York will renew acquaintance of which they
have been proud for years-that of Miss Maud
Powell, just returned from two years of concert
work in Great Britain. Miss Powell has one quality
as artist that is seldom met with in itinerant
virtuosi-she is not afraid to play new music. She
is not afraid of the work which the preparation of
new music involves upon herself nor apprehensive
lest she should not make profound a personal
impression as if she had played music known and
loved Of the people. She has we are tempted
say. introduced more music 10 the people of New
York than all the visiting vrtuOsi for ten years.
True 10 her nature she comes back with novelty.
this time concert fantasia Russian melodies
by no less a composer than Rmsky- -Korsakow.
She Will also play the first movement of the
Beethoven Concerto. The orchestral numbers in
the societys scheme are Wagners Zine Faust
Overture Brahms's symphony in major and
Beriioz's overture, La Carnaval Romain."
tet viii be given in Mendelssohn Hall on Tuesday
evening at Sis o'clock. with the following pro-
gramme:
Quartet for strings nat. op: 81 .DvOrak
Quartet for strings major SO, No. Beethoven
In Cesar Franc1s quintet the pianoforte part will
be played by Mr. George Proctor. OF Boston. Dvor-
axis quartet has been heard in New-York more than
once within the last year. It is stamped with
strongly marked Bohemian national characteristics
which especially striking in the second move
rnent. which is a "Dumka.' or balade-Ike song of
elegaic character. which Dvorak has developed as
interesting contribution to the form; and
In the last allegro which is written in energetic
rhythm and spirit of the polka, dance native TO
Bohemia. though Of comparatively recent origin
there.
The Quintet in minor is an important addi-
tion TO the list of Cesar Francks works that have
been made known TO New-YOrk in recent years in
such numbers 20 silence the reproaches of the
French composers admirers because OF what they
have called the undeserved neglect OF an original
and individual talent. II is third OF his cham
her compositions that Mr. Kneisel has produced at
ms concerts, the Others being the string quartet
and the sonata for violin and piano. This quintet,
which is dedicated to saint-saens. dlscloses some
OF the most characteristic and ingenious features
OF Franck's workmanship Il is in three move
ments, the first allegro being preceded by a slow
introduction which recurs again before the close:
and running through all three the attentive listener
Will discern the melodic material used repeat
edy In those varied transformations and elabora-
tions OF form and complications of chromatic har-
nlony to which Franck delights in submitting a
theme OF almost bald simplicity. He is one of those
composers who have made most frequent use in
recent times OF the device known as community
of theme" as a means of enhancing the unity of the
different movements of compositions In the sonata
form.
The Beethoven Quartet is the third OF the famous
set OF three dedicated Count Rasoumofsky, the
Russian Ambassador at Vienna during a large
part Of Beethoven's life there noted amateur Of
music and the supporter OF widely known guar
tet in which he himself played the second violin.
Beethoven wrote the set in is0s-the year OF the
fourth symphony the Violin Concerto and the
G major Panoforte Concerto: in the ripest period
that is in his called second style No works of
Beethoven's. as his biographer, Thayer. informs
us, had a more 6iscouraging reception from
sicians. One OF the critics Of the day called them
very long and difficult deeply thought and
admirably constructed. but not generally inteigi-
bic, except. perhaps. the third which win
the favor Of every friend of music by its individ-
uality, melody and harmonic strength But Count
Rasoumofskv's musicians. when they first played
them over. burst out laughing. and thought that
Beethoven must have meant them for OF his
Jokes and that they could not be the ones prom
ised TO the Count Another musician, Radicau,
finding a copy Of them after their publication
a well known English amateurs house. observed
that IL was generally believed that Beethoven
music mad: these quartets music at ALL
and added: Beethoven showed them TO I'm
manuscript: played them for him, and told him
he certainly could not consider such things music
whereupon he answered oh, no; they not for
you, but for later time"
AIDA" in Italian Monday. "Iohengrin' In Ger
man on Wednesday, La Boheme' In Italian
Friday, Faust in French Saturday afternoon
and 'fTannhauser' in German Saturday
ing is the programme for Mr.. Grau's people at the
Metropolitan Opera House this week. On Tuesday
the company will give Les Huguenots'' and
Thursday s'IDer Fliegende Hollander' I'm Philadel-
phsa The casts for the week Gt will be observed
that the De Reszl1es down for three tines)
a follows:
Aida nfe e'adshl
Una sacercotessa Miss balerrelster
Nine. Louise Homer
y Nj Gourmet
''a Conductor Nj Flon 80 ~
'LoHENGRIN."
Brabant... Nine Nordica
Nine. schumann-fienk
Frieaeh Won TeirInnnd David Bsphsm
Der Hesrraier Mr Muhlmann
''e'''''1' condnctor. walter pamrosch -
"A BoHEMD"