New-York tribune., 1902-03-30
MUSICAL MATTERS.

THE WEEKLY CALENDAR-A PHILHAR-
MoNIC ANNIvERsARY-FACT ABOUT
BEETHoVEN's NINTH SYMPHONY
THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE
UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE
SETTLEMENTS on THE
EAST SIDE - NOTES,
PROGRAMMES AND
ANNOUNCE
MENTs.
sundayMetropotan Opera House $50 p m :, con- con;
cert by Hoffman Kresler and Gerardy; Grand
Opera House, p M. concert for or, the bepent
9f HSTsn rdIast aq b n6as eFaR RanA South ch9rcR
p m. Mendelssohn's st. Paul" at a special
musical service
DO lTe. La toie Parfumeuse; Mendelssohn
Hah: ? m song recital Dy Flunket Greeneii Greene
afteT3o6n Si " for the benefit Of the New-York Diet
brooklyn SIS p N. pianoforte recital by Mr..
Paderewski.
Tuesday-Ienok Lyeeum P m us pusical festival
La jole Parfumeusa"
wednesday-church Of the Ascension $50 p. m m
toria Theatre, and p m. La jolie Par
5 s9fgs a qassmI5 s5 30 nj s Fss
music by Bruno Hum. victoria IneaTet , p
m, French opera boufe. Miss Helyett
Hall R. m Rg6nse gshsaFsaI Ala 2f
Waldorf-Astoria, $50 p. m. recital by Miss
s o.. m. Miss Helyett': Carnegie Iyceum, Sl5
?. m concert by Miss Elsa Won Moitke
Saturday Mendellssohn Hall, q ?. entertain tain
8:l5 p. m. concert by the Philharmonic So
eiety; Victoria Theatre, and p; m Miss
Helyett'; P. m. La Belle Helene; Academy
OF Music. Brooklyn; 2:30 p m, symphony con-
cert for young people.
Next Saturday evening the Philharmonic Society
of New-York will conclude its sixtieth season, and
II is purposed to signalize the affair by notable
concert as well as by a less historical
intermezzo The programme viii begin WITH
Beethoven's first symphony, and end with his last
the Choral" In the final 'Ode 70 joy the solos
will be sung by Miss Kathrin Hike, Mrs motifs
Black George Hamln and Ericsson F. Bushnell
the choruses by a choir composed Of the Rubinsteln
and Apollo clubs. After the first symphony MT
George Hamlin will sing an air from Richard
Strauss's opera. "Guntram.' In the lntermlssloh
Professor r. Ogden Dorernus. president OF the So
ciety 1867 to 1870; E. Francis Hyde president
from 1858 TO 1891. and Andrew Carnegie president
at the present time. Will deliver addresses on the
past, present and future Of the society.
Here are interesting and significant dates
concerning Beethovens Choral symphony: SchlI-
Ter the ode An die Freude in lIe'. Elsht
years later that is 1873 Beethoven, still in MS
native CITY formed the decision compose it
verse by verse" At time he was evidently
thinking Of a song but Of wide scope. since II
was not 10 be in the strophe style but "durch
konlponirt' as the Germans From 1873 TO
1923 for thirty years the ode haunted the mind OF
the composer though the time cannot be fixed
when il became definitely embodied in plan for
symphony. Certain 1t is that scheme which he
laid down ISIS for a symphony into which voices
were TO enter did not contemplate the Of
schiIer's ode. His sketch books furnish hints as
TO the processes OF his mind during the long period
Thus in 179S he wrote down a melody, rather
rnelodic phrase for the words: "Muss Elm leber
Water wohnen" In 1911. while working simulta-
neously on the seventh and eighth symphonies he
noted a phrase for the first two lines of the poem
and memorandum indicating that the ode was
10 enter a finale which 10 be well fugued."
Eleven years elapsed between the production of
the eighth and ninth symphonies. In 1915 the germ
OF the Scherzo melody enters the Lotebooks as a
subject for a fugue. In 1917 appear sketches for
what is definitely called symphony in D. the
themes treated being those Of the first and third
projects in mind; the works were 10 be different
from each other and different from all the other
symphonies. The second 10 be partly choral.
In 1922 new melody suggests itself for the ''Ode
TO Joy" and later the which was subsequently
used appears in the sketches There is also a re-
mark that symphony (now called the German
symphony end with Turkish music. by which
IS meant music employing bass drum cymbals, etc.
Toward the end Of 1928, early in 1924, the sym
phony completed and written out one manu-
script copy being sent 10 the London Philharmonic
paid Beethoven $50 in 1922. and the other King
Frederick William III Of Prussia. The first per-