New-York tribune., 1901-12-23
MUSICAL COMMENT.
A CONCERT OF CHRISTMAS MUSICIAN
ANCIENT NOVELTY TO BE PRO
DUCED-MME. LEHMANNS
LAST RECITAL.

Mr. Frank Damrosch's concert for young peopls
at Carnegie Hall on last Saturday largely de-
voted to Christmas music. The orchestra played
the pastoral symphony from The Messiah, and
Mrs Tirzah Hamiin Rutland. the possessor et
rich and noble contralto voice. sang He Shall
Find His Flock from the same orator1o, Miss
Marie Bisseu following it with Come Unto Him"
The march of the masL from Liszts "Christus'
was also played, Mr.. DamTosch explaining TO his
auditors big and little how the composer employed
such device sustained tone on the Violins to
delineate the streaming rays of the star which
pointed the Eastern Kings to Bethlehem The prel-
udes to the first and third acts OF "Lohengrin''
were also performed, and Miss Edith Chapman and
Mrs. Rutland sang OF the touching ehildrens
music from ''FanseI and GreteF' most charmingly
A splendid1y numerous and attentive audience was
in attendance.
The second Of Mr. Sam Franko's concerts with
the American Symphony Orchestra will be given
in the Lyceurn Theatre on January T. Some inter.
esting novelties will be presented, among them
concerto crosse by Dali Abaco, who was for long
concertmeister at the court Of Max Emanuel in
Munich. A prelude to of Bach's church can
tatas and an air by Leonardo Leo Gs94-lT4S are
the other works which will have first performances
Mrs Tirzah HamlIn Rutland will sing the air. A
set of dances by Rameau and Haydn's symphony
in C minor will complete the list.
It is very likely that the name Of DALI Abaco
will appear on an American programme for the first
time this occasion. II is, indeed. an unfamiliar
name the world over. yet one that had a sound
Of good repute two centuries ago To-day the
musical photographers scarcely know it, Gerber.
who was nearest him in point Of time Q7sD, does
not seem to have known him at all Fetis. MeudeI
and Grove mention him, but only in paragraph.
Yet DALI Abaco (he accent falls on the first syia-
BILE of Abaco) was for an entire generation one Of
the shining lights at court famous for musical
knowledge for centuries-that Of the Bavarisn
WitteIsbachers. revival Of interest in his works
is due the activity Of a society organized in 1893
for the publication of the music Of men distin-
guished in the art who were either educated in Ba-
varia or whose activity was given to that country
Eyaristo Felice DALI -Abaco was in the service Of
the court of Bavaria for more than genera
tion and shared all the vicissitudes Of the Duke
EIector Max Emanuel through the troubles which
grew out of the war over the Spanish succession
He Italian by birth. and came Of a family
that belonged to the ancient artstocracy OF Verona
1t is now extinct He was in that city
July u. 1915. and early became master OF the
violin and violonceilo. When twenty-one years
old he went to Modena, attracted thtther. 10 is
supposed by the fame CT Tomaso Antonio Vital.
He did not beome member Of the ducal chapel.
which must have been his ambition. but served in Il
on occasion drawing pay at the rate Of 25 cents,
present American money, each tiIne) at the opera,
church and court. For nearly three years-fron
September. 1701 till March. 174 his record Is
blank. At the latter date he turned up in Munich,
and month later was appointed chamber musician
('quonador Ia camera di violoncelIoO by Max
Emanuel. He was with the Elector in the Meth
erlands and France for ten years. and died In the
service of the Bavartan court July z, 1872 One
of his sons became musical director for the Elec-
tor of Cologne, younger brother of Max Emanuel.
and was colleague in that capacity of the grand
father and father Of Beethoven
DALI Abaco's printed works consist Of three sets
of and three Of concertos, called. which
were published in Amsterdam. The present work
is No. of his second publication, entitled Con
certi a quattro da chesa, Cfoe due Violini. afro
Viola. VioIonceIo e Basso Continue" II forms
part of the first volume of the DenkmaIer der Ton
zunst in Bayern. edited by Professor Adolph Sand
berger. of the University Of Munich. and published
last year by Breitkopf & Hartel-
The epithet in the title is to be understood as
the concerto da chiesa" from the
'concerti da camera" which was making its way
into instrumental music at the end Of the seven
teenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries
The distinction was which would scarcely re-
ceive respectful treatment now. The sonata ia
camera was what came to be called the suite; the
sonata da chiesa was practically the thing
except that its constituent parts were not called
by the names of the dances which had contributed
their ferns.
Nine Lehmann's farewell recital in New-York
will take place in Carnegie Hall on January 2. IN
the afternoon. The programme " ill cover the song
field from Bach's time mot Bach, for Whilst Gu
rnein Herr mir schenken,' 10 which his name Is
attached was not written by Bach. but by Clio
vaninD 10 Bungert The progress OF the list Is
as follows: Mozart Haydn. GIuck. Loewe, Bee
thoven Franz. Cornelius. Rubinstein. Brahms.
Reinhold L. Herman. Viardot-Chopin. Chadwick.
Grieg and Bungert-
LORD AND LADY LENNON HERE.