New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-06
MOTTI AND MUNICH.

A dispatch from Berlin brought the information
last Tuesday that Felix Motif, who is IN New
York as the musical director of the Metropolitan
Opera House. had been appointed conductor at the
Court Opera in Munich, as successor of the late
Hermann Zumpe. who died last summer. The dis
patch also stated that Motu would conduct the
'Parsifar' performances at the Metropolitan
Asked about the facts in the Munich case, Mr..
Conried said yesterday that he had spoken to
Herr Motif about it. and the conductor had said
there was not word of truth in it. He had been
offered the post three times. bat had declined IT,
1t is the understanding among persons well in
formed about musical conditions abroad that Herr
Motifs contract with Mr.. Conried is provisional
one contingent his wishes at the conclusion or
the coming season-that is to say in four months
from now At the expiration of this period II
will he for him to say whether not he will
make an agreement for term Of years which will
enable Mr. Conried 10 control all his activities as
conductor. This. il Is said. might have lar
reaching results especially with reference to the
Bayreuth festivals. Herr Motif has remained
silent on the subject Of "ParsifaT' since COM
ing to Nev.-York but his latest prOtestations be-
fore leaving Germany were Of devotion TO Bay
reuth. In a letter sent last May 10 the presl-
dent Of the Wagner monument committee IN
Berlin. in which he declined to conduct one
of the concerts to be given I'm connection with the
unwilling festivities and withdrew his name from
the committee list, he said: mo matter how often
in life we are compelled to make compromises and
concessions there is yet thing in which we
gratitude toward great ones. These feelings
purpose 10 bring all my life long 20 the altar whose
fame was kindled by the spirit OF the master
the Festival Playhouse in Bayreuth. the great the
inimitable monument which the Only one MN
self created for salvation" An entente cordiae
has recently been established between Munich and
Ravreuth the latter yielding the right to the for
roer TO produce at the Prince Regents Theatre
the dramas performed at the festival and the
former waving privilege which it owned to per
form .ParsifaI'' two years before the expiration
Of the copvrieht. Under the circumstances Herr
Motif could 20 10 Munich conductor without
causing rupture OF his relations with the wagner
family 1t is not easy 10 see how he could maintain
those relations were he to assume the direction OF
"ParsifaI' here.
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Munich 1ductGrShlD
cable message from Munich, Just receiFeu
g+ates that II is understood in that city that the
repotiations which have been pending between the
attendant Passart and Felix Motu. looking to the
selection Of the latter conductor of the Court
Onera in Munich, have been satisfactorily con-
Guided The only thing that has been lacking loi
g week has been the ratification OF the Prince
T2Aoent That has been obtained, and Herr do'l
!. looked upon as the future conductor OF opera
4. Assnicb He viii begin his new labors In the
srrins of 1904 al the close Of his engagement thIs
v,irter with Mr.. Conried, in New-York