The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10

Fuehr is now a resident OF Kobe, Ja-
pan. Before leaving here Mrs. Fuehr
! was one of the most prominent and
! greatly admired among the musical
! people. She is a pianist of unusual
! ability, and did much towards the es-
tablishing and continuing of the Music
Club and other musical interests here.
The Schwarzpanier Haus, the house
in which Beethoven worked and died,
is being demolished for the purpose of
replacing it with a more modern
structure. Beethoven was born in 1870
and died in the Schwarzpanier Haus
in Vienna in 1927. Before commencing
the work of demolition. the munici-
pality of Vienna arranged to honor
the memory Of the great composer in a
becoming manner, and, on st. Leopold's
Day, a festal day in Austria, elaborate
ceremonies were held in the rooms
where the great maestro once worked.
The ceremony was inaugurated by DIR.
Neumayer, in a speech briefly tracing
Beethoven's career and especially that
part of 1t passed in the Schwarzpanier
Haus. On its conclusion Herr Reimers
of the Burg Theater recited poem ex-
pressly written for the occasion, and
then the well known PTiii Quartette
performed Beethoven's quartette in E
major Top. 1857. A few picked menu
rein subsequently sang a couple of the
great musicians compositions, and
after another speech or 50 the cere-
mony came to an end. Meanwhile out
in the spacious court yard at the back
of the house a crowd of at least
couple of hundred people had patient
ly assembled undismayed by the rain,
which was falling heavily. In shell
tered corner the Schubertbund, q pop
ular Vienna choral association, was
grouped, and at prearranged signal
struck up a selection from Beethoven's
opera "Mignon." The public was then
admitted to take a last look at the
rooms, which had been tastefully deco
rated with flowers and ferns. After
that the gas was turned off and the
final act of the ceremony consisted in
the formal locking and barring Of the
doors, to be reopened only to admit
the workmen intrusted with the task
of demolishing the building.
The next rehearsal of the chorus of
the Music Club will be held at the
Lawton Memorial on next Thursday
evening at $50 o'clock.
Creatore and his band will be at the
theater next Saturday afternoon and
night. Creatore was in Savannah last
season and gave the most delightful
band concert ever heard here. That
such effects as he got out Of a band
of all brass instruments could be ac-
complished was astonishing. The
fortissiiho passages were tremendous
blasts, as was but to be expected, but
the piano passages were played with
almost as great a delicacy as could
have been done by a string orchestra.
BY his style of interpreting the NUM-
bers on his programme and his man
ner of conducting, Creatore proved
himself to be a genuine and artistic
musician.
Several Savannahians recently re-
turned from New York express them
selves with the greatest enthusiasm
about the singing of Mary Louise
Clary, the great contralto. Miss Clary
is an American woman who has work.
ed her way up in the musical profess
sion until to-day she is considered one
of the best contraltos in this country.
A nephew of Nine. zeisler was one
of the unfortunate victims of the Iro-
quois Theater fire in Chicago.