New-York tribune., 1910-09-04

church music. symphonies and chamber music
but most popular among the d1ietantl Ior MS
pianoforte pieces his sonatas challenging sFecldi
interest no doubt, by the titles which ne gave
to some of them such as Senate Militaire,
THE Celebration of Peace THE Battle OF
Wurzburg" 'HThe Sea Fight AT Trafalgar. etc
Louis KozeIuch U74S-1S1S) was music master
at the Austrian Court in Vienna. and received
the appointment of court composer after Mo-
zart's death He composed vOlumlnOusly III
the large FORMS instrumental and vocal anu
wrote from forty to fifty pianoforte sonatas
three concertos for four hands and one concerto
for two pianofortes
Though Johann Wenzel Tonaschek 01Ii-
1850 found a teacher that his devotion TO
the aesthetic principles of his age was incoH-
patibe with the erratcism of Beethoven the
composer. yet indebted to him FOR an
iilumnative account of the effect produced by
Beethoven's playing on inpressionable hearers
He was man of education and broad culture
one who. like Schumann, trained To the law.
but who abandoned Jurisprudence for music
when his pupil, Count Bouquoy, offered him a
salaried place in his household His compost
tons, OF which twelve ''eclogues' and the same
number of 'rhapsodies'' were noteworthy.
and caused enthusiastic critic to call him
the Schiller OF Music" enjoyed great popular
ity among his countrymen. Ignaz PIeyel 1151-
1S31) was pupil OF Vantall and Haydn. with
whom he lived for space. When Haydn went
to London in 1891 the invitation Of Salomon
the managers OF the professional concerts en-
gagged Pleyel, whom they intended to play of
against his old master The rivalry between
the two concert organizations was extremely
bitter. and an inspired newspaper article which
told that negotiations had been begun with
Pleyel said that Haydn was too old weak and
exhausted to produce music wherefore he
only repeated himself in his compositions. How
little the two artists felt the rivalry is indicated
In the memorandum which Haydn entered in
his notebook:
"Pleyl came to London on the 23d of Deeen,-
Der. On the oath dined with him.
In 1883 PleyeI became musical director Of the
Cathedral at Strassburg whence he went TO
Paris and founded a music publishing house and
a pianoforte factory $500. which still survives
under his All of his sonatas and other
compositions, except those intended for the pur-
poses of instruction. We're modelled after those
OF Haydn Yet he cut brave figure in the
concert life of the eighteenth century I.siswix
BERGER u't-ISi9o. who. among many other
things. wrote a Sonata Pathetique' and q
Marche pour les armees Angl-EspaEn dams
les Pyrenees. deserves TO be remembered as
the teacher of Mendelssohn, Dorm and Tauh.rt
similar title is that of the Able G.. j. Voxler
sanist, who taught Weber and Meyerbeer. and
showed some appreciation of a tendency info
"hlch planoforte music later To fail in a
piece FOR pianoforte with quartet aceompani-
ment. entitled: "Polynleos. on caracter. de
nusique de differ Nations Louis Spohr u7x4
iS'p. violinist conductor. composer of op.ras
oratorlos and symphonies is more significant
In the department of chamber music smp.ovinx
the pianoforte than as writer for that instru-
ment alone-a characterization which also o,s
George Onslow Q7S4-1SJ:o who. although de-
scended from noble English family was a na-
tive of France However. two sonatas for four
hands have received praise from modern critics
successor of Mozart HurnmeI C,ementi
and Beethoven was Ignaz Mosch.Ies u7at
IS'U. whom Edward Dannreuther i'm Graves
Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes
as 'he foremost pianist after HummeI and be-
fore Chopin. Moscheles who has MANY nu,,,s
among the older musicians of TODAY. mad, ,bs
pianoforte score of Beethoven's ..EYdeIio" under