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New-York tribune., 1920-05-02

season. With the splendid plans al
ready outlined, and with the cumula-
tive interest of two previous seasons,
the prospects for success are greater
this year than ever before"
OF the success of the previous series
OF concerts, the leagues statement
says; yg;
musical education. This fact is al
ready recognized not only in New
York, but by people from all parts of
reached the Peoples Institute from
distant cities asking il the concerts
are to be repeated, and stating that
1T ls an added reason for visiting New
York. The letters of thanks from
students and music lovers run far into
the hundreds.
IAN added reason for good music In
New York is the opportunity before
US to provide a worthy substitute for
some of the places of amusement
closed as result Of prohibition. AS
a city, we should not fail to make the
most of the opportunity"
Attention is called to the movement
for summer music in paragraph
which reads in part:
Everywhere throughout the country
the movement for summer music is
making rapid progress, and musical
authorities are recognizing that open
air summer concerts on large scale
are the next development for music in
America. Two important Western
cities and half dozen others have
already forged ahead and have initi-
ated summer musical undertakings of
great scope and excellence"
Associated with the Music League
of the Peoples Institute in providing
the financial backing for the concerts
is a group of men and women of
wealth and civic pride. The COM
mittees, which have charge of the un-
dertakings are composed of members
of both the Music League and this
group
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Cavotte and
Alexander W. Thayer's
Life of the Composer
The History of the Recently Discovered Compost.
ton----An Americans Biography of
Musical Genius ,

the Electoral Theater in Bonn. he mada
acquaintance with Mozart's operas
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail." In
1885, and Don Giovanni" and "Le
Nozze di Figaro" in 17s0-'e1. He dis
covers that influence in structural
features of his early compositions,
sequence Of keys and so on. Mozart's
music was known in Bonn long before
17S9, however. die Entfuhrung." as
Thayer discovered, was in the reper-
tory Of Elector Max Frederich's Ma
tionai Theater as early as 1882, when
Beethoven was eleven years DID, and
as pupil of Neefe was already able
to read music at sight very we'll
crecht gut" as his teacher bore wit
ness) and play the greater part Of
Bach's well Tempered Clavichord."
Moreover, it was in 1877 that
Beethoven visited Mozart in Vienna
and improvised the variations on LA
ci darem," which, according to the
story, brought out the remark, keep
your eyes on that young man; he'll
make noise in the world" or some
thing to that effect. Thayer takes 1t
tor granted that Beethoven be-
came familiar with Mozarts music
when he was lad studying at home.
That his admiration for his early model
amounted to alteration and continued
all his life we know from several
things. In 1912 little girl sent
Beethoven q portfolio and with it
letter which, no doubt, set him above
all the composers who had ever lived.
To which Beethoven replied: DO
not tear the laurel wreaths from the
heads of Handel, Haydn and Mozart;
they belong to them, not to me-" To
Abbe Stadler he wrote, in 1926. when
there was controversy over the au-
thenticity of Mozart's "Requiem": az
have always reckoned myself among
the greatest admirers of Mozart and
shall do 50 till the day of my deathl"
While examining Alexander w. Thay-
ers posthumous papers this writer
found the record in the biographer's
notebook of q chance meeting of some
musical people with Beethoven in 1926.
One of them asked him which of
Mozart's operas ne thought most Of.
Die Zauberh0te," he replied. and turn
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Columbia Extension Concerts

Because of the unusual success of
the Columbia University free concerts,
which are given on "thc Green" on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday eve
nings, for q period OF twelve weeks,
it has been decided to extend them to
all the more congested districts of the
five boroughs of Greater New York.
The Park Department has granted per-
mission for the use of the various
parks on Tuesday and Thursday eve
nings during these twelve weeks The
concerts will be given by the Gold
man Concert Band, under the direc-
ton of Edwin Franko Goldman. The
following parks have been chosen for
these extension concerts and in some
of them two, three and more concerts
will be given:: Central Park, Prospect
Park, Columbus Park, Highland Park,
Poe Park, Thomas jefferson Park,
Kings Park, Richmond Hill High School
grounds and Curtis Field (Staten
Island). One concert Will also be given
at the Montefore Home and Hospital.
The first of these extension concerts,
which are given under the auspices OF
Columbia University and dedicated to
the people of New York, VIII be given
8, at 12 o'clock. The dates Of the other
concerts will be announced in the near
future. The same programs that are
rendered at Columbia University will
be repeated in the parks and u noted
soloist will appear at each concert.
This entire series of concerts has
been made possible by funds that are
provided through the subscriptions of
public spirited citizens, who have made
the Columbia concerts such 4 success.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02

V, the first two of which appeared In
1901, the last two three years ear
lier. Then all the material, including
the original manuscript, was returned
to Mr.. Krehbiel, and out of it, together
with later accretions of knowledge, the
English edition was made, Mr.. krehbiel
pursuing his own course with the work
as it was when it left the biographer's
palsied hand and weary brain.
Meanwhile, as long ago as 1888 Mr..
Krehbiel had attempted to send assist
lance to Mr.. Thayer to enable him to
complete what had been to him the
task Of a lifetime, but which at the
last he found himself unable to COM
plete. At the suggestion of the Ameri-
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Beginning Of the recently found gavote by Beethoven

cal autograph manuscripts. The Sui
tan gave them to his musical director,
Guateli Pasha (evidently an Italian),
whose son sold them to Julian Mar
SHALL an English collector, from whose
hands they passed into the possession
Oh the British Museum. They were
Classified as compositions by Mozart,
sfd as such we're included in the new
hit'on OF Kochel's catalogue of Mo-
ARTS works, published in 1905. Theo-
a0fs Dc Wyzews and NJ. de st. Folk dis
eussed them in the French journal,
10 Guide Musical in December. 1910.
aad January, 1911, and threw doubt
upon them as original compositions by
Mozart. N. de St. Folk continued his
.a'essigations and, supported by the
u'c'um Of NJ. Charles Malherbe, for
aefly librarian of the Grand Opera, at
ans that the handwriting was not
'4a' OF Mozart, reached the conclu-
'a 'hat the compositions were by
Beethoven.
'hs manuscripts were four in num-
WI WEI pianoforte Trio in D; three
T'.es T.' Ter pianoforte, four hands, Of
A''a the Gavotte was the first; q
4'sn'hcent" Rondo in B-fiat for
s.aO'ofte solo, and Minuet in C for
.'"essfa. NJ. de St. Folk subjects the
'' 70 analysis to uphold his con-
.., .a''n' but of the Gavotte he says
,l. N.Y. The charming pieces for
NV ~ lour hands, all exhale the per-
Is 0f Mozart, notably the Gavotte
=, s''Ho.' We thought, in the hear
,,s saat 1t exhaled more of the per-
Haydn than Of Mozart; but that
r,., nave been matter of temporary
saa memory. The strong i'm
,.s. ss'0n which it made was that of
,o,..' LAST with the movements of the
-. with which Mr.. Bauer brought
!. 49,. ' !uxtaposition. The sonata was
liz :" 1880; M. de st. Folk fixes
b,,u. .a'es Of the alleged autographs
''Seen 1855 and 1895
l''asla'ive Evidence in the Gavotte
,... see no urgent reason for dis
from the conclusion that the
we was composed by Beethoven.
.''ld require more evidence than
A. s'us command to either prove or
s,..a 'ss that the handwriting (repro-
Qr,,.n N facsimile in "The Musical
Il ssrly" and in part on this page
,.s,' ~ Of Beethoven. As for the in
s.s. !. = evidence of the music itself. it
no be non-existent by M. de St.
ss,...s,vn svn confession. His extremely
taas essay in the magazine is
aa.S..s Of the proof OF the great
u 1ss 5 which Mozart's music had
beethoven in the early part of
a'lss career, from the time
uola player In the band Of
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
By II. E. krehbicl

ws.n. last January, Mr.. Harold Bauer
.oa Nine Samaroff, at concert Of the
a.,.hoyen Association, played gavotte
..r ,,snoforte, four hands, which Mr..
s.psr playfully said had never been
,,bI;shed and had been composed for
III. occasion by Beethoven, The Trib-
use,s music reviewer frankly expressed
his doubt touching the authenticity of
.bs composition. His reasons for so do
,og outside of the character Of the
music itself, were, in brief, that no
Beethoven biographer had ever found
trace OF such work among the COM
uosers unpublished manuscripts, and
that, the Sonata in D. which was also
slsyed at the concert (the gavotte being
introduced as middle rnovement). and
few marches and variations excepted,
Beethoven was not known to have
written a q,tatre mains. On the con-
rsry, he seemed to feel repugnance
10 that kind of music, as was indicated
when, after urgent solicitation, in
1874, he agreed to compose a So
pa.a for four hands for his publisher,
piabelli; he set high price upon the
vork and took the trouble to explain
that he felt no desire TO write the
sonata bat would do so only to show his
good will. Then, though he had &C
cepted the commission, he never full
filed it,
Mr. Bauer had said nothing about
the origin Of the Gavotte which he
and Nine. Samarof played from manu-
script, but we learned afterward that
It was one Of several autograph com
positions which report from London.
received here several months before,
,sid sore French investigators had dis
covered in the British Museum. The
house Of G. Schirmer has since then
published the work as edited by Mr..
Bauer, and in the current number of
"The Musical Quarterly" NJ Georges
de St. Folk tells its history. The
story in brief runs thus: The late
Emperor of Austria once presented
ABDUL Aziz, Sultan OF Turkey from
1851 to 1876. with number of musi-
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02

0"1 'Nl|o' odSSt Will appear at
Aeollan Hall on Monday evening, May II.
The Harvard, Princeton and Columbia
musical and instrumental clubs will
give concert at Aeolian Hall next Sat
urday afternoon, when glee, mandolin
and banjo clubs will give varied pro-
gram. There will also be specialties hy
;: Chaplin and G.. Buzby, of Princeton;
Howard Elliott and Joseph Sargent, Of
Harvard, and William Taylor and Rich
ard Simon, of Columbia.
This afternoon at o'clock the Music
School Settlement, 55 East Third
Street, will give its regular monthly
concert: The senior orchestra will re
peat the numbers 1t played at the
and various soloists also will be heard
Olga Warren, Elizabeth Lennox, Fred
Patton, Francis Moore and Frederic
Warren will appear at the last Ere deric
Warren Ballad Concert Of this season
at Aeolian Hall on Monday afternoon,
May 10.
Renald Werrenrath will give two
land. The first will be on June and
the second will take place two weeks
later, June II.
Mischa Elman will close his season
here ard make his last appearance for
several years in recital on the even
ing of May 9 at the Hippodrome. In
mediately after, Elman will leave for
short tour of the Pacific Coast, after
which he will devote his time to COM
posing the score for a comic operetta
to be presented next season by Flor
ence Ziegfeld. The violnist's program
Will include an orchestral accompani-
ment for the Bach concerto and the
services of his sister, Minna, as pianist
in the "Kreutzer Sonata"
Kwartin, the European cantor, will
give a second New York concert at the
Hippodrome this afternoon at o'clock,
assisted by his daughter, Miss Anna
kwartin, coloratura soprano. He will
also be assisted by a chorus of 100
voices under the direction of Choir
master Michael Wohl.
The Symphony Society Of New York
is receiving applications for the con-
ditions under which those composers
may place their compositions in the
contest in which $500 in prizes has
been donated by Harry Hardness Flag
Ter. the president of the society.
The conditions of the contest pro-
vide that the work must be of sym
phonic structure, in one movement, no
longer than eighteen minutes in play
ing, and the composer must be an Amer
lean.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
- In the World of Music and Musicians
eague Issues Prospectus
For Summer Concerts

The Music League of the Peoples
Institute has issued its prospectus for
the series Of summer concerts which
are to be given under its auspices in
the Lewisohn Stadium Of the College
of the City of New York from the
first Of July through the first of Sep
tember. There also is combined with
the prospectus a regime of the ac-
complishments Of the league in provid-
ing music for hundreds of thousands
of person in the stadium in the last
two years.
1t is announced that "the first pur-
pose of the stadium symphony con-
certs will be to place concerts Of the
winter standard of excellence within
the reach Of all the people and to dis
tribute 100000 free tickets to students
and music lovers. The prices will be
as IN 1919, IS cents, SO cents and 81,
with the two end sections of the
stadium at 10 cents. Three hundred
and fifty thousand people enjoyed these
open air concerts last year during
the intense heat of July and August.
THE entire National Symphony
Orchestra, formerly the New Symphony
Orchestra, will be used, conducted by
Waiter Henry Rothwell, with the
supervisory cooperation of Artur Bo-
danzky.
Last year." the statement says, "a
fund of 100000 was guaranteed by
one hundred underwriters This year,
in order to decrease the responsibility
OF each underwater, it is planned to
ralse the guarantee fund to 100000,
and to find at least two hundred friends
OF music who will cooperate to make
the concerts possible pleAoe will no
conditional on a minimum fund of
$4,000 being raised before July l. The
guarantors will be called upon for pro-
rata installments of their underwrit-
ings only as, and if, they are needed
to meet expenses, and will be REIN
bursed pro rata from whatever bal
ance may remain after the close of the
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02

mara Lubimova, pianiste: Andante Spi-
anato and Polonaise, with orchestra.
Margaret Severn, in Les Danses des
MasQues"; "Orientale," from Rimsky-
korsakoff's "Scheherazade"; "The
Fhrt," Chopin's "Valse Brilliante," )"
The Mountain King" from Grieg's "In
the Hall of Fame; Wieniawski's "Sec-
ond Mazurka" (masks by W T. Benda,
the first time to be worn on any stage).
Nine Halina Bruzovna, interpreter of
folklore and dance, in "a Gentry We'd
ding; "Mazur," national dance;
"krakowlak,' folk dance; Polish folk
music accompaniment, with violin OBJ
bligato by Scipione Guidi, concertmas-
ter.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Announces Winners
Of Oboe Scholarship

The competitive examination held at
the Institute Of Musical Art to select
candidates for the oboe scholarships
offered by Walter Damrosch has re-
suited in the selection of Ludwig Kos
sakowski, of Yonkers, N. Y, and Car
los W. Mullenix, of Appleton, Wis
These two men will receive three years
training in oboe, piano and the theo-
retic subjects necessary to make thor
ough musicians of them. They will
also have ensemble practice, and will
play in the symphony orchestra of the
institute.
AS three scholarships were offered
there is still one vacancy, which will
be filled as soon as suitable candi-
date presents himself.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
In "Ruddigore." Park Theatre.

Cortot, Lee Patteson, Maer and
Schmitz, all pianists; Kreisler, violin
ist; Louise Homer, contralto; Frieda
Hempel, soprano; Margaret Matte
nauer, contralto, and David Bispham,
barytone.
There will also lie six Saturday after
noon young peoples concerts at Carne-
gle Hall, and four children's concerts
to be given at Aeolian Hall Saturday
mornings.
The New York Symphony Orchestra
Is scheduled to return to this country
from its European tour July l. On July
Mr.. Damrosch's men go to Chautau-
qua, where the orchestra will give a
series Of classic and popular concerts
throughout the summer
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Park Theater

"Ruddigore" will end its successful
engagement at the Park Theater on
Saturday evening, May 10. The final
performance this season will be the
121st, the century mark having been
passed Saturday night last, when the
centennial anniversary of the revival
of the Gilbert and Sullivan work was
given, with an enthusiastic audience in
attendance. The cast remains un
changed and includes Frank Moulan,
William Danforth, Cora Tracy, Craig
Campbell, Herbert Waterous, Marjorie
Prlngle, Sarah Edwards and Bertram
Peacock, John McGhie conducts the
orchestra and Charles Jones directs the
stage.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Polish Benefit

A concert will be given at Carnegie
Hall, Wednesday evening by the
American Committee for Aid in the Re-
public of Poland. The proceeds will be
devoted to the relief work of this com
mittee in Poland. The program will be
as follows:
New Symphony Orchestra, Artur Bo-
danzky, conductor: Overture, "Eury-
anthe," Weber; "Siegfried Idyll," Wag-
ner; "Rakoczy March," Liszt. Signo-
rita Adeline Voscari, lyric soprano:
Pallatelia from "Pagiiacc," Leoncaval-
te and Polish and Amaxican eoazH. t.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Metropolitan Opera House, Saturday evening
This summer has been a sad

thoven. This summer has been sad
one in this regard. Too poor to spend
the necessary money for sojourn in
the mountains, l have passed it at
home, mostly in light reading (inca-
Ipable of much else), and bearing the
heat as best could, The Beethoven is
a constant burden upon my mind. 1t
weighs me down; worries me; brings
me-. at times, almost to despair. II l
don't recruit so as to complete the
manuscript of Volume ": for nv
translator, at least, it can never be
properly finished, for no one else can
possibly use the materials adequately.
No one can feel that more deeply than
l--be sure Of that.
y, l broke down as Night Editor of The
Tribune in 1852-'53. and years of pow
cry ey' oyerwork, disappointment and
hard luck that followed prevented me
from full recovery. Now Nature i.
reyenging herself.
Forty years and moro ago a little
child in Cambridge was a special IA
vorlte or mlne-a cousin of Professor
j. Is, IhaNer. Of Harvard Law School.
She has visited me (September l, 8)-
woman turning gray-and we had
much talk upon the subject of your
letter. The conclusion to which we
came was (and is) that it would be
well WORTH Trying Whether some
young woman expert with the CALI.
graph, of good education, and desirous
Of learning German and Italian, could
not render the aid | need. If
can only get Volume " to DR.. Delters
for the German edition, the main thing
Will be accomplished; and then, with
new courage and zeal, perhaps, l should
be able to at length write that ideal
Life Of Beethoven" in English, the
plan of which has been in my mind
since l851-'52. You must see, after this
confession that if any publisher
should do what you suggest, he takes
risk, for who can tell whether nv
brain will hold out to finish the work
am willing TO leave all matters of
pecunia to the publisher if he will
only make me to finish the work.
There follow some observations on
musical storians-Ambros, Naumann
and Rowbottom, and the letter con-
cludes:
In fact, history of music, giving
us facts and free from German specu-
lation and philosophy God save the
markD and omniscience is yet TO be
written. l shall not live to see it,
| want to know what sort Of looking
"felioW" you are--so send you an
Now my head gives out.
Yours truly,
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Crimi, Stanley and Culbertson
viii Appear at Hospital Benefi,

A concert for the benefit of the Post
Graduate Medical School and Hospital
S2,ooo,000 fund will be given at the
Metropolitan Opera House next Satur-
day evening. Ginlio Crini, tenor of the
NJ Metropolitan Opera Company; Nine
Helen Stanley, soprano; Sasha Culbert-
son, violinist, and Rudolph Ganz, plan
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02

Later letters were less gloomy, though
the prospect Of finishing the biography
was never held out in them, neither
in them nor in letters to Sir George
Grove, who sent. the letters which he
had received on the subject to this
writer after Mr.. Thayer's death. The
photograph enclosed is reproduced on
this page.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Hammerstein Memorial concert tonight

Easter Chimes In Little Russia .Voticbenko
oossack Dances ;............... Votchenko
Sasha Votichenko
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Programs of the w eek
SUNDAY


City College. A p. M Samuel A.
Baldwin's free organ recital:
ouite III C'''..'.'. Bartlett
Adagio, Moonlight Sonata Beethoven
Prelude and Fugue in B minor Bach
Chant Negre: Intermezzo. ...... Kramer
oprlngtime ..........,........ Reuschel
Etude SymphoniQue ............... Bossi
Largo from New World" Symphony Dvorak
Fantasia on Welsh March. ....... Best
Hippodrome, 8:15 p. m. Hammerstein
memorial concert:
Overture. "Mignon" Thomas
Waltz Song from La Boheme" 60. .Puccini
Miss Trentin
Aria from 'L 'Eisir d'Amore" .Donizetti
Frank Pollack
Caro- Nome" (from "Rigoletto" Verdi
Mime. Tetrazzini
Waltz, Mia Cara" Tin memoram)
Oscar Hammerstein
Dance Of the Hours (from La Gioconda"),
Ponchelli
La Procession ............ Cesar Franck
A Story Before the Fire: Before the
DA"h .......... MeriKanto
John Mccormack.
Address. William ]. Guard
Overture, ''rannhaeuser". Wagner
Reeit. and cavatine from Act ~. lie
Nine. Eeanore de Cisneros.
Improviso from Andrea Chenier'. Giordano
Nicola Zerola.
Ballet des Sylphes Hungarian March,
Berlioz
Orchestra, Joshiah EURO conducting.
Aria from '"The Pearl OF Brazil" David
Nine. Tetrazzni.
TUESDAY
Aeolian Hall, 8:15 p. m. Concert by
Sasha Votichenko and others:
Les Cloches du Convent .Borodin
Menuet ct Musctte. e..........De Markotf
Baroness de Markoff
Chants of the Orthodox Church.
The Russian Cathedral Quartet
Pavana tsur la mort dune infante de-
lUnteJ Ravei
RUSSIAN Rhapsody ............. Votichenko
dopak ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Moussorgsky
Sasha Votichenko.
Aria, Joan OF Arc" ".... .Tschaikowsky
Floods Of Spring. .......... Rachmaninoff
Mime. Winetzkaya.
The Song of the Chain ..... Votichenko
Russian Foiksongs,
The Russian Cathedral Quartet.
Vletles Melodies Francaises told French
Sha1nas al ths XVII ana XVIII esntuxsaa}
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
WEDNESDAY

City College, p. m. Samuel A.
Baldwin's free organ recital:
New-York tribune., 1920-05-02
Music Notes

Pureza Rico. bass, will appear at
Aeolian Hall on Monday evening, May II.