New-York tribune., 1905-02-26
MUSIC NOTES.
Dvoras's "Stabat Mater = Kari
Z" Pansner, Ne1o Conductor.

won6sv-Metropolitan Opera House, p. m,
French opera. Romeo ct Juliette'; Mendeis-
sohn Hall, afternoon, pianoforte recltai py
Nine Observation-Disclosures.
T,uesday-Alendelssohn Hall, S:lo p NJ concert
of chamber music by the Kneisei Quartet
wednesday-Metropolita Opera House. P. M
German operetta die FIedermaus; Men
oelssohn Hall, S:l5 D. M, concert OF the i3os-
ton symphony Quartet; Knabe Hail. S:Io P
Norden: No 2l2 West 59th-st.. p m con-
cert of rarely heard music by Herwegh Won
-Ende.
Thhrsday-Metropolitan Opera House $ p. M
German opera. die Meistersinger"; Wal
dorf-Astoria. $50 p. M. song recital of Oley
Speaks; 8soiian Han, $50 p m, concert of
the ouatuor Flonzaley for charity; Associa-
ton Hail. Brooklyn S:15 p. M. pianoforte
recital by Eugen d'Albert; Baptist Temple
Brooklyn, concert of the Peoples Choral
g Union OF Brooklyn.
Friday-Carnegie Hall. 2:30 p. M, public rehear-
sal Of the Philharmonic Society; Metropol-
-. itan Opera House. p. m, mixed bill OF
opera
saturday-Netropolita Opera House. . r m,
Italian opera, -Tosca"; 8 p. m; German nan
?. m, concert of the Philharmonic Society.
The note in last Sundays Tribune concerning
the approaching performance by the Oratorio
Society Of Dvoraks "Stabat Mater" was wrong
IN so far as # said that the work had not been
publicly performed in New-YOrk 1t was sung,
without orchestra by William Courtney's pupils
on March %. 1854, but that does not count.
nrst production in London it was performed by
the New-York Chorus Society, under the di-
rection of Theodore Thomas. The date was
April g. 1854 and on November 13 Of the same
year the society repeated IL. Again, on Feb
ruary 10, 1891, it was performed at St. Georges
Church by the Church Choral Society, under
Richard Henry Warren. with the Thomas Or
chestra playing the instrumental part. These
facts dc not detract from the interesting char
acter Of the next concert Of the oratorio So
ctety for the "Stabat' is muSically the finest
of Dvorak's vocal works. and ought to be heard
much oftener than il u.s. But the integrity OF
the musical record ought TO be preserved. The
"Stabat" had to wait seven years for nearing.
Written IN 1876, as the first fruits OF a leisure
fmpruGenLIy gained by resgning his post as Or
zanist OF a Prague church. il was by curious
lack OF perception rejected py the MINISTRY %
Fine Arts at Vienna, whittier Dvorak had Sent
the score as credentials tor pelsloLt t LeLt
without money resources, the composer next
year sent chamber music TO the Ministry, ano'
as Brahms had just become member OF the
awarding COMMITTEES. DVoraks merits Were
quickly recognized. Brahms also helped him TO
ind q publisher. Simrock. in Berlin. and for thls
house the Bohemian wrote his Slavic Dances
for plano in 1878 which soon spread his fame
abroad On March 10. 1883. the Stabat had
it's first English performance at the hands or
the London Musical Society. II made deep
;roDression and Dvorak was invited TO direct
performance In Albert Hall, on March I3, 1854.
and at the Worcester festival. in the fan OF
the same year. Mr.. Thomas's hrst proouctlon
OF the work was within three weeks OF the Al
bert Hall performance. and months before the
Worcester festival performance
Karl Panzer who comes 10 conduct the next
runlic rehearsal and concert Of the Phhhar-
Enonic Society at Carnegie Hall on Friday after
noon and Saturday evening. is the only stranger
among the conductors who are presiding over
the concerts OF the orchestra this winter. Mr.
Panzner IS Bohemian, who was born at Teplitz
III 1866 He received his musical education at
-v~f,o- LA mas
awarded the first prize for pianoforte playing.
After various engagements as conductor. he sue
ceeded Emil Paur at the Leipsic Opera House
IN 1893. While there he attracted particular at
tention by his production Of the Nibelungen
-rTilogv in It's entirety, and during the six years
Of Sis engagement brought out twenty-five new
operas. In 1893 he succeeded Felix Weingartner
as conductor OF the Bremen Philharmonic Con-
certs, which position he holds Owing 10
his widespread reputation. as conductor OF
orchestral concerts, he has been invited to ap
pear in Berlin, Paris Moscow, Vienna and most
Of the large European cities The programme for
the seventh public rehearsal and concert win
comprise Tschaikowskys Symphony No. 5, in
z minor the overture TO Weber's "Euryanthe''
and the PRELUDE and finale to Wagner's Tristan
und Isolde" Eugene Ysaye will be heard In two
numbers that he has never played in New-York
before. They are Rach's Concerto IN G major
FOR violin and two flutes and Bruchs Concerto
No. in G minor. The latter selection has never
been played as yet in public by Mr.. Ysaye.
The publication Of Modest Tschaikcwsky's BIZ
ography of his brother enables US to give few
historical data about the E minor symphony of
The great Russian. It was composed In the
summer OF 1888. There is nothing progrs mu1atic
about its character, and II does not seem to have
had its origin in anything which might serve to
gtVs clew TO the frame Of mind or condition
Of mood out Of which it grew. The composer
himself unusually reticent about II while
be was writing IT, well as afterward Its
composition a task deliberately set and
quietly accomplished. On April "a 1888. he wrote
to his patroness. Nine. Meek. that all the
newspaper stories about his plans. purposes and
doings were lies. "T intend" he added. before
all else, TO begin q symphony" Three weeks
later he wrote 10 his brother, Modest: ''I hope
that gradually material viii gather for a SYM
phony." On June 10 he wrote TO Nine Won
Meek: 81 do not know whether or not 1 in
formed you that have decided to write a SYM
phony II was difficult work at the beginning
but inspiration seems to have come now We
snail see To his friend Naprawnik he wrote
on June "a: the weather has been terrible,
and ! have frequently taken a cold Neverthe-
less nave worked and finished the sketches for
the symphony and the Hamlet overture Now
am going at the instrumental ton" Inside of a
month. as a letter TO Nine Won Neck indicates.
ne oTchestrated more than half OF the work and
sen August II he reported its completion saving
that he was SO satisfied with himself for having
1nished II that he could willingly overlook soma
trthing bodily pains that were troubling him
Ihe symphony had its first performance at
concert OF the Philharmonic Society in St.
Petersburg on November 3, 1888. the composer
conducting The enthusiasm was great Tschai-
kowsky staining at the time at the zenith Of
his popularity. He was received with n fanfsre
of the orchestra and an engrossed and him
minated address. on parchment was presented
TO him by the society. Not long afterward the
zaan Music Society. Critical opinion was divided
on the question Of the merit OF the music Cesar
Cui pronouncing the dictum that the colorist
had got the upper hand OF the thinker in the
work Within four months the symphony