New-York tribune., 1901-06-09
MUSICAL COMMENTS.

MP PApEREwsKrs oPERA-HAYDN's
sKJLL-A POLICE REPORT ON LIszT
-PURCELLS FAIRY QUEEN
OPERETTA AT THE TER
RACE GARDEN.
Mr. Paderewslsfs opera 'aianru'' (the title lie in
co-rer.lv rrinted ..Mauru" nine times out of tend
has been adapted for performance in English ana
will be published by G. Schirmer within ie"
weeks.
A.. ts,o s+or,, &c going the rounds of the news
M ners to the effect that MoZarts skull was re-
Gently recovered from private hands ana piaceo .i
a museum in Vienna. 1t is singular that even 60
itors OF musical journals should give currency ~
such palpable nonsense. The location OF tiie P
pers grave in which Mozart was buried ide no no
been known for over century. In fact when lhe
widow Of the composer, who did not al'eHu 'e
burial inquired the grave at the cemetery sumo
months after, the sexton was not ao4e ~ po.i.'
1T out No one knows what became OF Mozarts 5
bones.
II is probable that the story started in con-
founding of Mozart and Haydn. The latters Skull
has had a strange history. which was puolisheu III
full in 1887 by a Viennese journalist named Frank
who gave TO the world the contents of document
purporting TO have been written on June p, 1857
bv one Johann Peter. Governor of the Royal I'M
perial Prison of Austria. This document was sup
HAYDN died on May 81, 1909, while the French
were occupying Vienna. In 1920 his remains were
exhumed and transferred TO the Esterhazy family
vault at Eisenstadt. The coffin opened and
the body found be headess. Search was made
among the collectors devoted to craneology in
Vienna skull supposed be Haydn's was found
and buried with the body in the Esterhazy vault
According to the document published in 1884. Jo-
ham Peter phrenologist and stole the head
of Haydn in order to corroborate the theories of
call will nj
teriaazy named Rosenbaum, the director of VI
emma Lyceum named Jungermann and a civil SER
vice functionary named Ullman, Peter said he
went to the cemetery week after Haydn had
been buried and despoled the grave. The docu-
ment says: THE coffin opened the head sew
cred from the trunk and taken a garden had
in the Leopoldstadt. There l had the osseous box
macerated and bleached with the utmost care, and
when the moment came for studying it found the
bumps denoting the faculty of music perfectly de-
veoped according the indications OF DR.. Gall. /
also noted the nasal bones traces of the poly
pearian tumors from which Haydn suffered
much in his lifetime. After which had casket
made of vanished wood in the form of a
cophagus ornamented with a gilt Tyre, wherein I
deposited this precious skull The box lined
with velvet, and the skull lay a silken cushion"
When the search was made in 1920 Peter
pected and, being promised immunity from pun
ishment. he applied to Rosenbaum. 20 whom he
had given the relic. Rosenbaum handed him a
skull which he said Haydn's II waT given up
TO the police and buried with the body. On his
deathbed RoseRbaum sent for Peter and told him
that the true skull mad not been given up He
handed IL Peter with the suggestion that
on death he bequeath it to the Conservatory of
Music. This disposition Peter made of it. but by
a codcil his will he gave II TO DR.. Haller. who
presented it 10 the Anatomical Museum in Vienna.
Professor Ella the relic in the possession Of
Baron Rokitansky. father of the singer Rokltansky,
in 1S73 and published note about it in his 'Mus-
cal Sketches
II NJ Paderewski were asked to play before King
Edward says The London Daily News it would
hardly TO his majesty to send 10 Scotland
Yard for a report as to the panists character.
Yet this is what actually happened Liszt in 1885,
when he about to play befo-e the Empress
Mariana, wife of Ferdinand, and the report of
Count Sedlnitzky has just been unearthed It IS
most amusing reading The worthy Chief Of Police
first confounded Liszt with Chopin. and spoke of a
filtration with Georges Sand. Nor aware
that Liszt then avowed republican. as
Heinrich Heine had borne witness He thought
the Countess d'Agoult Cdme Wagner's mother)
bad company for him, but there was nothing
against Liszt politically although he is d young
man. vain and light hearted affecting the fantastic
manners Of the young Frenchmen Of the day, hut
of good character. and apart from his musical
capabilities quite Insignificant" But. the report
continued. Liszt should not receive the title of
pianist TO the court. That remarked the police
official, was honor reserved for great artists
while List merely an ordinary pianist
The telegraph brought the news a fortnight ago
Of the discovery by Mr.. J. S. Shedlock of the
full score Of PurcelIs Fairy Queen which had
been lost for just two hundred years In 17Ol an
advertisement appeared in The London Gazette"
in which the directors of the Covent Garden The
atre announced that '0hosOever brings the said
score, or copy thereof TO Mr. Zachary Bagas
treasurer OF the said theatre shall have 20 guneas
reward Mr.. Shedock found the score in a pile
OF printed and manuscript music which r J. s
Stevens, the glee composer bequeathed TO ,he
Royal Academy Of Music in 1897. Mr. shedlock
finds in the present internal evidence to show
that 1t was the actual used at Dorset
Gardens in 1853. for it contains all the music
ADDED by Purcell after the original production in
Isa2 Mr. Barclay Squire. Of the British Museum
who mas enjoyed great experience in such matters
Is OF opinion that portion of the music is in
Purcelrs own handwriting
O. H Macdermott. concert hall singer in Ion-
con, whose real name Farrell. is dead He
VIII be remembered for a brief space as the man
who popularized the song which gave Lord Bea-
consheld's party a nickname twenty-five years ago:
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We don't want to fight, But by jn-gOf we do,
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We've got the ships got And got the money too