The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09

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MPEROR WILHELM is evidently
determined that his collection of
ancient musical instruments in
Berlin shah be imperial in its scope
and excel any other in the world He
is spending his private means in order
TO accomplish ms interesting purpose,
ana recently he gave $4,000 for the
purchase OF a noted Client collection,
That of Cesar Snoeck. Prof. Fleischer.
the curator OF the museum, has Just
published his annual report, in which
this collection is described. II con-
tains LOO Instruments of all kinds,
times. peoples and forms. also "a library
Of some 1900 volumes about instrument
construction and instrumental music,
and furtlTrr. something like q thou
sand pictures having a bearing on in
struments and music. Il took five cars
To curry the collection to Berlin. The
excellent result of the acquisition Of
this Dutch collection is that it supple
ments admirably and fills in gaps in
the collection already established in the
new music high school OF Berlin. Cla-
vicrs OF the important Netherlands
type of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, which were wanting before.
are now in the collection Many of
these are magnificent examples en-
bellished with rich and beautiful paint
ings, among them being seven of the
historic Rucker claviers Of the end of
the sixteenth and beginning Of the sew
euteenth centuries. There are also a
number of clavicytheras-the fOrerun-
ner Of the modern uprights-aud a va
ried collection of organs. large and
SMALL beautifully painted and carved.
and other clavier-like instruments like
the iderOcymbalo-the steel piano
a Dietz melodeon. clocks with piano
attachments, carillons and royals. In
the matter of stringed instruments
there are many rare and valuable spec
linens there being fully seventy full
sized violins. among them one by Nor
Elato Morella of Mantua Of the date Of
lol5. Then there are seventy small and
dainty pochettes-dancing masters id-
dies-of original form and exquisite
finish
Quantz. the flute teacher of Frederick
the Great. was man of very even tenn
per. Nothing could move him: nothing
could make HIN angry. The great king
one day decided to test the temper of
his old teacher. He wrote on a sheet
of note paper the following words:
"Quantz list Elm esel-" In one corner
below he placed his signature. Fred
erick der Zweite." QUantZ had to play
that very evening in a concert before
the king, and when ne found the note
paper with the little remark written
in the kings own hand standing on his
music stand. not muscle of his face
showed that he was angry or embar-
rased. The king frowned a little, but
old not say anything. QUantz set the
flute to his lips, ready 70 begin. The
king could not resist the temptation
any longer. and he asked him whether
or not ne had read and understood what
the paper contained Quantz said moth
ing, and the king by this time angry.
commanded his teacher 10 read aloud
before the whole court what the paper
contained. QUantz obeyed in the fol-
lowing way: "Qudntz list Elm esel. Fried
rich der Zweite."
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Upon the Palisades. somewhere be-
tween Union Hill and Gutenberg. y. J.
is 20 be a structure built for the pro-
duction OF the Passion Play and dedi-
Gated 10 sacred music. The project is
an assured fact. according to the state
ment made by DIT. Wolfgang Goetz, of
Hoboken, who has held a copyright
on a version of the Passion Play
since April, IA. 1883. The building viii
be known as the Temple of Music ami
viii cost $1.000.000. Among the recent
additions TO the list Of social or non
musical members Of the Passion Play"
society which is 70 bear the expenses.
IDr. Goetz says. are Miss May Van Allen.
daughter OF James Van Allen; Mrs.
Hobart. widow Of Garret a. Hobart;
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and Mrs. Fred
erick Nelson.
Berlin has discovered a policeman
composer who hopes TO rival Sousa. he
IS Fritz Teike. and was recently pre-
sentos 10 the Kaiser as the composer OF
the popular marches played by the
Potsdam band. Soon afterward all the
bands I'm Germany began playing
Taike's marches The musical police
mans fame has even extended To Eng
land. Teike has been asked TO send
a composition TO England 10 be played
by the military bands there.
The members Of the family or Fred
eric Smetans have discovered among
his papers a number of manuscript
sheets on which he had carefully noted
down casual musical ideas and tran
scribed some compositions for piano
hitherto unknown, as we'll as some
symphonic fragments, destined, IL
seems. for the Illustration Of The Cid
of Peter Cornelius.
Here is something to think over. o.
the COvent Garden orchestra, in Lon
don. seyenty-four are thoroughly Eng
iish names, and are, presumably. Eng
Iishmcn. VINO are. with q few eXcep-
lions. members Of home Orchestras.
How many BOstonians or even Amer
leans, are in the symphony orchestra:
According 20 well-known London
manufacturer the cost OF the materials
FOR q cheap violin, including varnish,
is 81 cents. The factory cost OF the
complete instrument is just about 81.
Otto Floersheim writes i'm the Mu-
steal Courier.
"UnQuestionabIy the most peculiar
pianist among the musicians and the
most militant musician among all plan
lists is Ferruccio BusOni. He long ago
showed this spirit OF antagonism
against M that is conventional 10 such
AN extent that by one of the most
prominent Of Berlin's music critics he
VAS dubbed "uRmusical-" He keeps up
his way of being -'contrarious' this
season. and has actually created some
thing like antagonism on the part of
tho usually fair-minded brethren OF
the critical quill They resented his
two concerts with novelties or the sort
that would make your hair stand on
end They did not take into consider
alton the fact that Busoni was lighting
lor his own convictions (fOolish and
unmusical' as they may have been)
and that Busoni was putting 40 his
good. cold hard-earned cash for these
concerts He had originally announced
three, but the receipts were so small
n COMPARISON with the expenses that