The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-17

unthroned king of all pianists, and Ole Bull the genial Norwegian tmitator of Paganinis violin playing. Both took great interest in the youag. striving artist and assisted him with best ad- vice. A -s at the faris | Conservatory, who gave plano concerts | in his native town Budapest induced Mir. l Czeke to 20 with him for Q concert tour | in Hungary and Roumania- This euc- cessful, but in winter time, too tiresome | and risky tour, through the Pen4sviv1- | nian Alps being happily over. Mir. Czeke
 settled in Vienna accepting a position in | a concert agency and as music critic ter ! the official Ostereithlsche Zeitans. He I wrote also in time for renowned paper Ostdeict de zeitung. giving his | elaboration to Miska Hansss, the Hun | garion violin virtuoso's travels in the
 United States of America ana his sd- | ventures with Lola Montez In Cnufor- | nit. He is also the author of an illus | trated treatise in westermann's Mo- netta Hefte about Hungarian music and | gypsfes which wasfafterwards utilized by | Franz Liszts book about Hungarian gypsy musicians.
 Meets Carmen Sylva. Anxious to spend again more time for l his violin, he accepted the management of the concert tour with the famous pianiste, Madame Essipof Leschetizky. in  which was very successful. principally In Bakarest; the Queen of Roumania Oxnown as poetess under the name of Carmen Sylva) taking personally great interest in Madame Essipoh, and the
 magnates of the place presenting, after a series of concerts in Bakarest and Odessa, much valuable jewelry.
 In the following winter he travelled concert-giving with the world-famous towns of Roumania and Russia, namely, Moscow. St. Petersburg, Warsaw, etc After returning to Budapest and Vienna, he decided to attend the Paris Exposition of the year 1867. While essaying there one of the violins, exhibited in the Champs de Mars by a Vienna violin
 maker. a passing noble Frenchman with his wife, Marquis Hericourt, stopped to listen to his playing. The father of the
 Marquis was President of the French Senate, and his wife was born in Ger
 many, nee Cromer. who distinguished herself as composer and pianist.
 The result of this meeting was | that the Hungarian violin virtuoso was 7invited to play in musical evening the following day in their house. The hosts and their guests were so pleased that he was invited to stay in Paris. The Mar ouis gave him at once letters of recom- mendation for some distinguished fami- Iies and also to the manager of the con | certs Besseliedre in the Champs Elysees. attended by the elite of the Par1sian so- ciety.
 | Tn this engagement he made the ac- ouaintance of MT. Svendsen. the Nor weeian composer, now director of the Royal Opera in Copenhagen. as his first violin partner, and received of him In friendly dedication his string quartet and violin compositions. After this suc- cessful series of concerts. conducted sew eral times by Theodore Thomas, the cell 70 Nv engaged in the orchestra of the rcnown- ed Opera Theatre Lyrique, managed by Mir. Caryelho Madame Miscan Carvalho and Adelina Patti. the world-famous singer. were the principal members there in the same winter season.
 During his five years domicile In Paris, Mir Czeke played in the symphonic con- certs conducted by H. Littoff. the great z pianist and composer, took the violo part in the classic quartet concert In Sale Brand. and played violin solos in many distinguished occasions.
 In the sommer before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. he took an en- gagement for the Cursaal of San Sebas- tian, in Spain. Here he met Jacques Of- fenbach, composer of well-known operas; Waldtenfel brothers. court musicians of Emperor Napoleon III, and many notable refugees from Paris. In the following | fall, Paris being carried by the Prus- sian army, and a return to this hunger | trodden town being impossible, MT. Czeke made the proposition to his fellow | artists to start for a concert tour to Madrid. the capital of Spain. during next winter. This was accepted.
 In Sunny Spain.
 The first concert in the Conservatory of Music in Madrid, where Senor Monastorio was Director, having great success. the six artists composing this company were engaged by all the principal theatres for concerts on the stage after the dramatic
 performance.
 On the seventh concert evening in the
 Zarzaela Theatre happened that. In the
 moment as the concert should begin, an
 uproar raised in the whole theatre it be-
 ing announced that General Prim. the
 War Minister and Protector of the newly
 elected King of Spain Prince Amadeus of
 Italie) was just killed and the whole town
 was in a revolutionary state. Tn this way
 all further concert engagements was can
 celled and the musical company dissolved.
 The pianist, young German, Carl Beth,
 receiving by his masterful playing many
 pupils fin Madrid. resolved to settle. and
 the 'cellist became the house-friend of a
 married Spanish couple. The others re-
 turned to Paris. the town being now
 open, although Fort St. Denis was still
 occupied by the Prussians. Mir. Czeke,
 finding out that in this excited time it
 was even hard for suspected person to
 get a meal in Paris, resolved after a
 short stay. to start for London, where he
 had a good friend in Professor Richard
 Dressel, also a refugee from his long
 occupied position in the Paris Lyric Ma
 poleon. E g
 Sketch Abruptly Ends.
 It will be observed that the sketch of
 Professor Czeke ends abruptly after his
 arrival in London. It Is written on the
 letter paper of the Montgomery Street
 Fair Association, which had it's head
 quarters in the rooms of the Commer-
 cial and Industrial Association of Mont
 gomery. Professor Czeke was frequent
 CT of these rooms, and it Is believed that
 his attention was attracted to something
 else and he failed to complete the story
 of his life In America.
 His friends believed that after career
 in London with his friend Professor
 Dressel, he came to Boston, Mass. per- haps twenty-five years ago. He had dis tant relatives in Boston and he probably stayed in the great musical center of the United States several years The rowing disposition so characteristic of his na- tionality, was upon him and he lived fin many places throughout the country. It is recorded that he lived in New York,
 Boston. St. Louis, Montgomery. Pensa- cola and at some point in Georgia, from when he first came to Montgomery.