The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-03


military element. which protested that
Il would aid the enemy. lasted until
1883, when Kara Musgapha. by threat
eains Vienna, caused the razing Of the
eaiflce, After John Scbieski had routed
the infidel, a home was wanted fer a
picture of the Madonna which had
been taken from the monastery, and
ste OF the Spanish Benediciines of
somber habit. Hence the name, the
house Of the black Spaniard. The Ben
edictines remained in possession until
1913, when their order was absorbed by
the Jesuits. and the latter had il for
a home until II was finally put up at
public auction
Heaven seemed 10 resent this, for the
elements ragged one dark night. and a
mighty bolt Of lightning hatteDed the
dome to the roof. In 1857 Emperor
Joseph II. turned the edfice into
military garrison home. and later into
A magazine for the storing Of military
bedding. Stiil later. the odor Of sane
tity that hung around the building
prompted its being turned into a mill
taTy church, and some years after it
seems TO have been taken out of mill
taFy hands by purchase. through a
fund created by public subscriptions.
fhen Il was turned into an apartment
house, the rentals going to the church.
but the creates interest that attaches
20 this building of many vicissitudess
hes I'D the fact that Beethoven lived in
II. wrote his last great quartets in 1T,
ana finally. one dark stormy night.
when tremendous crash of thunder
shook the building to its foundations.
gave UP his spirit, which. brave and
Naiorous TO the last, had its last ut
tefance IN the words since otherwise
applied. Applaud. friends, the play is
ended"
Music pirates still flourish in London
suburbs and the English provinces.
thousands Of contraband copies of
copyright music are seized and de-
stfoyea every week, and they represent
only small proportion of those actu-
any printed and circulated. Nor is
there any limit to the audacity OF those
VINO are fattening on this thievish bust
ness, A few weeks ago a large con-
Segment of pirated music was calmly
ieIt AT the cloak room OF a London rail-
way station. Fortunately. it's nature
was discovered. and the pirate. return
ING TO secure his loot, found that it had
been impOunded, In some Of the larger
towns magistrates are doing their best
10 stamp out the scandal by imposing
heavy costs. At Sheffield, a party of
eufbstone pirates went to jail for a
months hard labor in default OF pay
ing costs TO the extent Of 80 shiIlings
apiece.
The concert business is reported to
unusually poor in London this winter
ibis unfortunate state Of affairs is. no
doubt, due in part to the foolish antics
OF some OF the concert givers. The lat
est fad is. 1t seems. the interval" Dur
ing this interval the artist holds re-
ctption in his or her room or wanders
up and down the concert hall exchang-
ipS greetings with friends. These at
tempts 10 introduce social features into
concerts may interest few, while the
audience as d whole fyets over the
waste Of time.
Seven performances of "ParsifaT' viii
De given at Bayreuth next summer. the
dates being July %, 81. Aug. i, !. II.
% The other works to be performed
are Tannhauser" and the four operas
OF the Nibelung's Ring. The festival
win last from July - to Aug. 20.
Munich, Of course, VIII also have its
Wagner festival next summer. II will
begin on Jug y, and end Sept. 10. BY
special arrangement With Frau Was
nef, Murich can now give the same
dramas that are heard at Bayreuth n
-
PaFsifal' The operas to be produced
there are The Flying Dutchman."
"Meistersinger." Tristan and tn
four Nibeluns dramas.
The Italian publisher SOnzogno. who
recently offered a $4,000 prize Tor the
best opera, took special pTeca utions
that it should not 20 10 a German
HumpeTdinek, who was one OF the
judges. complains that the German
manuscripts were not sent 20 him. hu.
20 an italian who does not understand
a word of German. The result was
that among the fourteen operas desig-
mated as worthy of note not one was
by a German. In the manuscripts sub
mitted 60 him Humperdinck found
very little merit. Que thing that struck
hIo was the evidence in most of the
scores that the ''Veristic'' school OF
Mascagni and LeoncavalIo has had its
day; their works no longer serve a.
models
T. KTitschmer las completed the
cataloguing of the musical archives Of
the Roman Catholic court cathedral
at Dresden, task upon which he has
been at work for more than two years.
Now the possibility is given, Of utiliz-
ing scientifically the exceedingly valr-
able material contained in this coilec-
ton. which contains more than 2.ea9
works from the pens of lis composers.
DIR. Max Friedlander has been ap-
pointed professor If music and musical
director Of the University of Berlin.
He is best known as the editor of tbs
complete edition OF Scbubert's songs.
published By Peters. He has succeeded
previously known. He has also edited
the songs OF GluCk. Haydn. Beethoven.
Mendelss0hr. SchUmann and LOeWe.
Last year he published an important
work in three volumes on the German
Lied in the eighteenth century.
on Nov. II d Beethoven festival was
held in the house Gin the Black Span
iard's street" VIENNA. where Beetho-
ven lived and died, and which is soon
TO be pulled down. Alter an address
by tine deputy bursomaster several
compositions by Beethoven were per
formed, and afteT7Nard the abbot or
the Holy Cross rose and said that as
the owner of the property he gave TO
the corporation Of Vienna all the re-
naming portions OF the house ia which
Beeth0Ye- had dWelt-
one hears frequently from Rome
that the new pope Is intensely musical
and that, while a serious student Of
the art, and particularly conservative
when it comes to preserving the purity
Of the church music. he still exercises
his love for music in q very liberal
spirit. II is said that he intends to
eniiven the vatican with music, and
proposes that the cardinals and other
members Of his encourage shall become
familiar with good music. and with