Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-10
Music and Musical Notes

on the evening June 10. InlS society,
under the leadership of Prof. Charles Pet
e--on, will also attend the Northwestern
sangerfest at st. Paul July 2s. 81 and 20
and contest for the prizes offered at that
time. The proceeds of the concert at
Krug park will go toward defraying the
expenses of the society on the trip to St
Paul.
The Royal Hawaiian band, which comes
to the Auditorium very shortly, is one of
much attractiveness. 1 heard it, If 1 re-
member rightly, at the Portland exposition
last summer. The men play well, and their
singing is full of dash and natural sweet
ness They had hard work singing enough
songs to satisfy their audiences. The
band should draw a large crowd here.
special musical exposition is now being
held in Berlin
FOR musicians by far the most interest
ing part OF the exposition is that in the
so-caled Dlue room" on the second floor
where is to be seen the most remarka BE
eotiectlon of manuscripts ever brought to-
the presence of the holy of hoiiesNbefore
US lie the priceless original manuscripts Of
the mighty Beethoven. We see in Beeth-
symphony, 'Fideio," the Greatest ste ~ tin III
piano lSno eoncertosathe E fiat. the ''Missa
sRaTp mino 1ne sI E major symphony, the g
major violin romance. We could not ex
peel tnat thunderer among composers to
write In IadylIke hand; and, indeed his
scores are so illegible that one wonders
now they ever could be read at ALL 1t is
n not merely that the notes are corrected,
erased sometimes scratched out; they seem
70 De flung upon the page in a veritabie
hurricane Of inspiration. And yet, un-
have value beyond money to exb pss
they are the immortal works of an i'm.
mortal genius.
scMNtsnxt to Beethoven lie the autograph
SSirelStor." Cost fan Tuite" and 'tTho
ter" Symphony and the wen 4 ma joe y,oEIn
concerto. The Don juan manusoript is
"a me possession Of Mathilde Marchesi, at
hand was fine and remarkably clear.
haydn likewise is represented with two
S 81 SnS LohaGn oS symphonies; the major
mon and Baucis,d the b major NAME
sonata, and triOs for two iutes and piano. at"S
fashioned precision characteristic Of his
times Then comes Schubert. with the
snS a tbs Ianttssy thirty;eight songs
sern." Sehubert's hand was not especially
plain, although much better than Beeth-
preston OF having been scrlbbled or IN ma
judged by the scores Of his entire aH aFreis.
MAYOR 9oncerts H ns o Rste4eS q his
variations, and Invitation 10 the Dance =
Was Mas very S careful in his manuscripts He
but the notes are small and distinct.
II It were not for Schumann and Mem
uelssohn one would be tempted to think
that the classicists wrote as cieary az theV
composed and that a little OF the possible
tN9aSSsidity Of romanticism had crept into the
wrote very fine, pretty hand. His writ
ings are represented by the originals OF the
Elijah" and the st. Paul" the Mid
dtNpf r,F
Ing "Auf Fiugeln des Gesanses. T r
the E nat and ID minor Symphonies, "Para-
disc and the Peri" Manfred" the c ma
violin concerto in b minor. This was writ
ten shortly before the composers death
and showed his decadenoe 50 plainly that
Joachim, TO whom IL was dedicated and In
whose possession It now is, decided not to
publish Il. Schumann wrote the neatest,
S%ISeS S hand Of AZ the great composers.
meine Sesle, Du mein Herr, Du meine
Wonne, Du mein Schmerz." looks like
the Handel esntata, "saive Regina" there
is only one other Handel manuscript in
Space considerations forbid my mention
Ing In detail all the various interesting
manuscripts manuscripts and autographs Of Rossini,
Brahms Goetzs. Nieolai and Lortaing.
scarlatu, Wagner, Hugo, Wolf and Spohr
On eAhlDluOn. CHOPIN manuscripts e6pe-
elauy interesting because they are so rare
He destroyed almost everything after the
nrst copy had been printed, fact which
Is greatly TO be lamented. His c minor
sonata and three etudes-the famous G.
nat, and the + major and Il minor-are
included In this collection.
Side by side with the Beethoven scores
however, lie the manuscripts OF one before
whose name the whole world bows down
Johann Sebastian Bach! Here are the
originals OF that greatest of all oratorios,
the minor mass, OF two cantataS of that
noble work, THE 81. Matthew Passion"
music, and a score upon which every liv-
Ing pianist should lOok-the well Tenn
pered ClaVichord." This lies open at the
hrst prelude &c major, the one upon which
Gounod wrote his famous melody Next
TO the "Clavtchord' lies q manuscript
which made me gasp and take on my hat
In awe. 1t is for me the most impressive
autograph 1 ever looked upon-the Bach
ehacOnnel 1t is written In a big, bold
hand. The grand old cantor's manuscripts
are very clean and neat, and never does
one md an erased or corrected note. In
the ehaconne, however, he was somewhat
careless In writing accidentals; his sharp
sometimes looks like a natural, and his
mats are very small 1t was very interest
ing to observe frequent bowling marks In
from the wiseaeres that Bach never wrote
anything but the naked notes. II is true
that he assigned no tempo and no signs
OF expression, no lingering, and so forth
The only heading IN connection with the
whole piece Is the simple word "Claconna"
The arpeggio part Is not written out; Bach
merely gives the chords and places above
: the direction. "Arpsggio."
NARY LEARNED.