New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-23

q farewell concert u MUM
absTnber music by the Knese Quartet Metro
g2tan Opera, House user p Nan for the BEN
eft Of the Actors Fund HsId i ~ NV
n N concert for the benefit OF the 19ryh Ad"I
College library fund.
Wednesday endelsgohn Hail. S lr p ' reci'si OF
Vfooncello music by Mark SkaInleF'
Thursday-Carnegfe Lyceum, SI5 2: m. concert er py
Miss Mai Myota and others; No. 33i Maol Son
aye I by Krehbie Association Hall
B9 Bro M1s M SS w fRhGsrs Baptist Temple
Br00kiyHb oiI no $50 p m meet
ing Of the Musical Salon
Friday-tiood Friday.
saturday-Carnesie Hall, $3.50 p n. pianoforte re-
ctal by PadeTeWski.
The fifth evening concert of the Kneisel Quarters
series Will be given at Mendelssohn Hall on Tues
day next at SIS o'clock. The programme will be as
follows:
Quartet IN minor op 10 time C n! A DeOuSsy
Quintet, major for three vio-iIs viola ana
clarinet bassoon. cello and double bass Beethoven
The quartet will be assisted by Messrs. w krafft'
violin; X Keller. double bass; A HackeoaF,h' nom
N LebaiIly clarinet. and A. Debuchy' oassooh'
AchiIe Claude Debussy. whose name is all but ull-
known TO this public is one CT the most advanced
OF the younger school OF French composers ne -
thir1y-nne years old, graduate OF the farls ooi-
servatory and a Roman prize man he mas "Fltleii
an opera ''Pelleas ct M@lisande." cantata aiter
works and a number OF songs. This quartet was
first played by Ysaye Brussels, and there crealeu
much discussion. 1t DID efterwaFu III a.
Kunerath, the well known Belgian crlllc Aoul4N
that Debussys music often more literary IMAM
.--,ly musical: the quartet abounds In 'leapns
rhythns violent shocks Of harmony aIlerlA'44is
with dangerous melodies which recall the chro-
matte character Of Oriental tunes; pizzicat "fch
make one dream OF guitars and mandolins; nooos
Of rich harmony, broad and sustained, invoke the
remembrance OF the Javanese Gamelang. 1t is py
no means common music; IT is on the contrary Kun
OF distinction"
Mr. c. NJ Loefier whose quintet will be played
Cor the first time IN New York IS one Of the hrst
Itosins Of the Boston Symphony Orchestra an &c
complished solo performer and composer OF IN
common originality distinction and inolVldualIlS
Several OF his compositions have been hearo IN
,-s1pYorl most recently an orchestral tone poem
called The Death Of Tfntagiles. ana a SUITE loF
violin and orchestra Nights in the kralhe. MI
Ioefner Is now forty-one years old. AS player anu
composer he belongs TO the modern French school
having been a pupil of Leonards on the Wo!n
Though later he studied with Joachim and OF
Cuirand-s IN composition. and his first experience
as a player was gained in Pesdeloup's orchestra IN
the French capital. He original member OF
the Boston Orchestra at its establishment in 1911
The quintet 10 he played Tuesday is as uncon-
ventional form II is in instrumental comblna-
ton. Il is in movement an Allegro com
rnodo" with the usual first and second themes
which leads up 70 an EPISODE pSNO 1i4cSlS'NN'
sIaxorio I'm character based the melody of
Russian folksong. Mr.. Loefier's prediction for
SIavonic themes is shown in his Ukraine suite
again. a return then made TO the themes or the
Allegro cornmodo, and the work closes with CODA
The quintet was first heard in Boston about six
years ago.
Beethoven's septet is one Of his works that
reached an immediate and lasting popularity, to
which its righteousness. IN the vein Of his first
period under the Haydn-Mozart influence. and the
elphony OF its instrumental combinations contrib
uted It was composed in the last years Of the
eighteenth century and was first performed publicly
at concert given in Vienna by Beethoven in April.
1900 had previously been played at the house OF
Prince Schwarzenberg. where ii was much admired
and when Beethoven is said have observed, That
is nv creation IN reference to Haydn's oratorio,
then Of enormous popularity and esteemed his best
work. It proved p true prediction, and indeed IN
later years when Beethoven had changed MS ldeals
and gone on TO q more characteristic style or his
own the persistence with which the public held TO
MS first admiration OF the Septet annoyed him. The
theme Of the variations is a Rhenish folksong-
an echo, doubtless. Of Beethoven's boyhood years
IN Bonn
The latest addition to the Schirner Collection Of
Operas is Flotow's Martha" which dixie Don
Giovanni" La Traviata." III Barbiere' and
-.AEignon' in the series is introduced by an
historical and critical essay by H Z. Krehbiel The
volume is a model in respect OF typography and
there is much new information in the introduction.
For instance. we have never before seen the anus
ing story of the origin Of the opera, which Mr..
Krehbiel relates. as follows:
In 1913 FIotow the son OF a member Of the
minor nobility Of Mecklenburg. was a young com
poser in Paris. where he had made his serious
musical studies under Reicha- He had already set
a number Of small operas which had been per
formed in amateur circles and looking with
longing eyes toward the Opera Comique, where his
models had their successes One day he
fxeo Of T5e bre tbs after seTbe and coab
orator OF Donizett, Adolphe Adam. Auber, Halevy
would undertake to Compose the music for one
act Of a ballet TO be produced at the Grand Opera
and Edouard Deldevez. had undertaken the other
two acts. and the commission was conditioned upon
an Egreern ent finish the work within four weeks
was written and after its s,ccessftI production tbe
young musician learned the reason why the work
OF musical composition had been divided between
The director OF the Grand Opera, under his CON
tract with the French Government. was bound to
bring forward new ballet In three acts each year.
As the time approached for the ls44 production the
SiTector grew anxious 70 be Q4it Of his obligation
being apprehensive OF failure bis principal dancer
was pretty. but, as he then thought, specially
called upon the government minister and asked for
a oispensation exempting him from the obligation
IN her lire known as Ace Dis1I 1e Gele1rfy
hurt in her amour propre, she, too. the
minister. who informed her that the directors
cumstances, an expenditure OF 100 900 francs which
the new ballet would cost, would be unjustinabIe
me laay departed, but the next day gentleman
called at the ministry and offered 10 pay 100000
francs 70 the director provided a ballet was i'm
enact the principal part The agreement was made:
commissioned. and within the time asTeed Upon
Lady HaTTiette on Ia Servante de Greenwich
pleased the people. but delighted Flotow and when
opera for the Hofoper. at Vienna he turned to
Saint-Georges's ballet and from it planned the
a friend named F. W. Riese, who had taken a part
in the performance OF a little opera entitled lie
charity entertainment given at the palace OF the