New-York tribune., 1908-08-02

ing favors It was given out that he had sub
mitted a proposition concerning the management OF
the Opera House at the request of the directors.
This met with prompt denial at the hands of Mr.
Stanton, the secretary of the board and by some
Of the directors themselves.
Herr Schott had submitted proposition how
ever. and had coupled it with hint, which sound
ed like threat, that in il not promptly
accepted it would go to the directors of the Acad-
emy of Music This vexed some of the stockhold-
ers OF the older institution who made public de-
NAL that they were considering, German opera
even a remote possibility. Herr Schotts propo-
sition dismissed with little ceremony by the
Metropolitan directors who, however, sent Mr..
Stanton and Mr.. Walter SDamrosch 10 Europe to
organize q company TO carry out the 1nes al
ready established during the coming season. In
doing so they adopted several valuable sugges-
tions contained in Herr Schotts plan. In this plan
schott was to be the musical director of the COM
pany of course but not the conductor For this
post he contemplated engaging Anton Seidl then
conductor of the Municipal Theatre of Bremen and
husband of the jugeHdliche Dramdttsche. who had
successfully gone through the ordeal of one sea
son-Auguste Krauss Walter Damrosch to
be assistant conductor Nine. .Schroeder-Hanfstangl,
Frau Krauss. Fraulein Brandt and Herren stau-
dgl and Blum, of the old company. were TO be
kept. and the new singers were to be FNrauiein
Gellert Fraulein Koppmeyer, Ferdinand Wachtel
(son Of Theodore, already referred TOY and Carl
Hill. bass.
The rganization. a finally effected, placed MI
Stanton at its head director. acting for the
stockholders Walter Damrosch, as assistant
director and also conductor; Li Lehman. of
Berlin, the principal soprano; Marianne
Brandt, principal contralto; Albert Stritt, prin-
cipal tenor; Emil Fischer, Of Dresden. princi-
pal bass, and Adolf Robinson, principal barytone
Other singers were Auguste Krauss twho now
became SeidlKrauss) Max Alvary, tenor Frau
lein stach. mezzo-soprano; Eof sylvia, tenor; Kem-
litz. tenor; Lehmler. bass; Frau Kramer-Wied dra-
ms tic Herr barytone
Klein, soprano With this company the second sea-
of German opera was opened on November
g. 1885. the opera being "Lohengrin-" l shall not
take up the features of the season seriatum, neE
detailed record of the consecutive production
of the operas on its list; only special incidents
shall be recorded: but before this is done some
thing may be said touching the newcomers:
Anton Seidl young man when he came to
New York, but he had filed the position of secre-
tary Richard Wagner and been member Of
his household for six years. Before then he had
studied at the Leipsic Conservatory (Which he en-
tered in October. 1870 and been chorus master or
accom- PIANIST at the Vienna Opera There he came
under the eyes of Hans Richter, who sent him TO
Wagner when the latter asked for a young man
who could give him such help on THE Ring OF
the Nfbelung'' Richter had given him Die
Meistersinger''that is to write out the
from the composers hurried autograph. The period
which he spent with Wagner was from 1872 to 1873
During all the preparations for the first Bayreuth
Festival in 1876 he of the poet-composer'z
executive officers. lie of the assistant
conductors on the stage during The festival, and
afterward conducted the preliminary rehearsas for
the concerts which Wagner gave in London and
elsewhere 10 recoup himself for the losses made at
the festival Then. Wagner's recommendation.
he was appointed conductor at the Municipal The
stre at Leipsic (his associates being Victor Nessler
and Arthur Niksch), later of Angelo Neumanss 3
Richard Wagner's Theatre. which gave repre-
sentations of Der Ring des Nibelungen" In many
cities of Germany. Holland England and Italy, and
still later of the Municipal Theatre In Bremen-the
post which he held when the death OF Dr. Dam
rosch created the vacancy which brought him TO
New York All this had accomplished before
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