New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-14
MUSIC NOTES.

The season sale Of tickets for the two series or
concerts which the Boston Symphony Orchestra
will give in Carnegie Hall during the coming
winter will oDen at the box Office OF Carnegie
Hall tomorrow morning at o'clock.
More than ordinary interest Is attached to the
Boston Symphony concerts this season. due to
the presence Of DR.. Karl Muck. OF Berlin. who
has come to America on a years leave OF alb
sence from the Royal Opera Of that city to be
the conductor OF Boston's orchestra 1t Is thir-
teen years since the Boston Symphony brought
a new conductor to New York-if the visit, last
year, of Vincent dIndy be excepted-the last
one having heen Emil Paur. now of the Pitts
burg orchestra. When the orchestra first came
to this city to give concert in Steinway Hall,
Mr.. Gericke, then in his first term OF service,
was at It's head. During the last three years
of MIR. Gerickes first engagement the orchestra
became firmly established in the affections OF
New York's music lovers. and under Nikisch.
Paur, and again Gericke, Its patronage mere mas
grown steadily UNTIL indeed, New York has come
to regard it as partly its own
DR.. Muck comes TO this country with a splen-
did reputation IN career OF twenty six
years in some of the most exacting posts OF
Europe. Beginning at the bottom round OF the
ladder, chorus master in the Opera in Zu-
rich. his advancement was so rapid that in
twelve years he was appointed one of the prin-
cipaI conductors of the Royal Opera In Berlin,
which post he holds.
The engagement of DIR. Muck Is to a certain
extent a radical departure in the policy of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra In the past the
plan has been TO take a man who was COM
paratively unknown Henschel. the first con-
ductor. was absolutely unknown in that capac-
ity when he took charge of the orchestra in
1881. Gericke. when he first came to America.
had been subordinate in the Vienna Opera
Municipal Theatre of Leipsic. were both UNI
known men. Curiously enough, all Of them had
been identified almost entirely with opera
To be sure. when NikisCh left in the spring Of
1898 Hans Richter was engaged and when he
broke the contract with Mr.. Higginson he wrote
urgently to DR. Muck asking him to come in
yad hay cd Dr m VIC
have been another comparatively unknown man
to take charge of the orchestra. But now thir-
teen years later he comes to America, a mem
Der Of that small group OF men who have raised
the position of the conductor to higher plane
than it has ever held before.
There will be no SolOst at the November con-
cert In New York, and for the March concerts
no soloists are yet announced. since DR. Muck
has not yet determined what he will do on his
last visit to this city But the soloists who
are announced are unusually strong, four pla-
nists and two violinists. The pianists are Pade-
rewski. Rosenthal Gabrilowitsch and Olga
samaroff. The violinists are Willy Hess and
TimOthee Adamowski.
Paderewski will play only once In New York
next winter, and that will be with the Boston
symphony Orchestra He comes to this coun-
try for three weeks. In which time he will play
seven concerts with the Boston symphony
Rosenthal will make his first appearance with
orchestra In New York with the Boston Sym
phony Gabriowitsch has always been favor
tie here. and Olga Samaroff Is rapidly establish
ing herself as one of the most brilliant Of our
pianists. Neither Willy Hess nor Timothee
pAony audiences in New York. Both are among
those who rnake 'the vtrtuosi orchestra an or
ohestrs of vfrtuosi"
Announcements Of novelties will be made
lator.
The following Biographical data concerning
DR.. Muck are authoritative. having been supplied
by Dr. Muck himself. He was born on October
90 1859. IN Wurzourg. Germany, the OF DR..
J. Muck a councillor of the kingdom Of Bavaria
BE began the study Of the violin. piano and
counterpoint under his father, who tall
ented musician. continuing 1t later IN the Gym
nasium- At the age of eleven he began to ap-
pear in public pianist. generally in chamber
music and later played the violin in a symphony
orchestra. The year Of 1873 he spent at the Uni
versity of Heidelberg. whence he went to Leip-
sic. where he stayed two years working for his
degree IN philosophy. classical philology and
musical history, at the same time working in the
Leipsic Conservatory under Ernst Friedrich
Richter and Karl Reinecke. He made his debut
as a pianist in the Leipsic Gewandhaus in 1880.
the same year receiving MS degree OF Pm D.
1SS0-'S1. chorus master IN the Municipal Thea
tire in ZUrich; 1SS1-'S2, conductor at Salzburg.
Austria; 1SS2-'S4, conductor OF opera at Brunn.
Austria; 1ss4-'86, conductor of opera at Graz
Austria. at the same time he was conducting the
Syrian Musikveren: 1862. conductor OF the
German Opera at Prague and conductor OF the
Philharmonic concerts In the city; 1889.
conductor OF Angelo Neumann's company, which
gave the first performances IN Russia OF wag-
ner's ring: 1891. conductor of Angelo Neu-
manns company at the Leasing Theatre Ber-
lin; 1S92-19O6. principal conductor OF tho Royal
Opera In Berlin. He has been the director OF
the oratorio concerts OF the Royal Opera chorus
and since 1894 has been the conductor Of the
Schleswig Music Festival. As Guest Con-
ductor" he has appeared in St Petersburg and
Moscow; at the Philharmonic concerts in
Bremen, where in 1895 he gave a scenic produc-
ton of Rubinstein's "Christus": at the Philhar-
monte concerts In Copenhagen: at the royal con-
certs in Madrid; at the Philharmonic concerts
In Paris: at the royal concerts in Budapest and
at the Philharmonic concerts and Royal Opera
IN London. In 1901, 1902. 1904 and 1906 he con-
Quoted all the performances Of "ParsifaI' at
Bayreuth. For the last three seasons he has
been one OF the conductors OF the Vienna Phil
harmonic concerts, and was TO have conducted
all of them In the winter OF 1906-'o7 had he not
come TO America
Programme of a song recital by Nine. Schu-
mann-H eink at Carnegie Hall next Saturday
afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock:
N Sa s4 fIsbe @saes Ie6ea Beethoven
DE ISns9 NSnhe Franz Schubert
Frauen Lebe und Leben (sOns cycle Of eight songs,
Three with organ accompaniment Ahn
sci sui
Nater Chser' Carl Krehs
B BsiFsi5 Xaford:rans.. Richard strau,.
Miss Helen schauI at the piano.
Charles A. Baker at the organ
Leoncavalio's final appearance in New York
preVious o his Western tOur with To coar. -