New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20

orchestra The Danca dele Ondine from Catalanfs
-Loreley" and the scherzo La Poule" which were
BY request Nine Louise Homer win contribute
an aria from Les Huguenots," Pol Planeon Is
cavatina from La Sonnambula. Miss Marion
Weed is to be heard in two Ieder. and Mr.. Gqarda-
bassi will sing the grand air from lie Roi de La
bore" solo for harp by Nine. Tagliavia will also
be a feature Of the concert
At MendeIssohn Hall. on Saturday afternoon. at
o'clock, Jacques Thibaud will give second violin
recital. assisted by Miss Augusta Cottlow. pianist
The programme:
00--''' No o. Th iiafi ana Miss cottiow
Menuett. minor (from the Hammer nusc)
All Thlbaud
Etude minor oD. 'zaremoski
scheFso. sharp minor: 0p; 81
Havanaiso yH.. saint-sa ems
Berceuse , ~ auEe
AK Thibaud
Andre Benoist. accompanist.
The third concert by the Kneisel Quartet VIII be
given in Mendelssohn Hall on Tuesday evening at
S15 o'clock The programme will be as follows;
S Sonss With II I Pian6 accon1aninent
Adieu-pour jamais. ...--....--.......o NJ Loefner
Songs with plano accompaniment and viola OOOliga'O
La Cloehe Felee.. ..........--.....c. N, LOenier.
Unfinished Quartet minor Schubert
Quintet. piano and strings q fiat op --'SchuInann
The assisting artists will be Miss Susan Metcalfe.
soprano; II. Gerhard. pianist. and Mr.. Loefler the
composer OF the songs, who will play the viola
obbligatO-
Mozarts quartet is the second Of that last set OF
six that he wrote between 1872 and 1885, and dedt-
Gated Haydn being the fruit of several years
of long and careful labor" 1t seems hard in these
days to believe that these quartets aroused great
opposition at the time Of their first production as
being ''tOO highly seasoned for any palate to en-
dure; that eminent princely amateur, after call
ipcr ont RI nilVpFS
thought wrong notes. tore up the parts in
rage when he found that they were the right notes:
Italy because 1t was supposed that they must be
full of typographical errors; that Sarti attacked
Mozart as a barbarian quite without ear for
having written in these quartets wholly unbearable
Schubert's unfinished quartet Is a single move
ment (allegrO assaD that remained unpublished, in
autograph contains, besides this movement, the
beginning of an andante In A fiat, which shows
that Schubert intended to write entire quartet.
AS in the Of the unfinished symphony, ii is
unknown why he never carried the work to COM
pletion. 1t composed. according to the memo
randum on the autograph, which Schubert rarely
failed TO put down. in 1920.
Charles Martin Loeffer's music, both in chamber
and orchestral forms, is known to frequenters
OF Mr. Knesers and the Boston Orchestra's con-
Certs: but the first three of these songs all
that he has yet published. They are settings Of
verses from the French poet Gustave Kahn's LES
Paais Nomades"; the two with viola obblgato Of
Mr. Loefler's art has been recognized of subtle
ty and distinction in spirit quite akin to that of
the modern French poets with whose work he has
associated much OF his His music. however
fantastic 1t sometimes IS, is original delicate and
sensitive in It's expression Of moods. and OF fas-
tidious finish. OF the last two songs 1t has been
said that they are really pieces for voice piano
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