page_title: Martinus Sieveking
section_title: American tour, 1895 and 1896–97
hierarchical_section_title: Martinus Sieveking / Musical career / American tour, 1895 and 1896–97
caption_attribution_description: English: Dutch pianist Martinus Sieveking on the cover of Music Trade Review on June 5, 1897 published in New York City.
context_page_description: Martinus Sieveking was a Dutch virtuoso pianist, composer, teacher and inventor born in Amsterdam. Also known as Martin Sieveking, he performed as a soloist around Europe and the United States during his active career and taught in France and the U.S. after he retired from performing. He is sometimes referred to as The Flying Dutchman due to his Dutch heritage and extremely flighty nature. At the peak of his career, he was pronounced by the New York and Boston critics as one of the four greatest living pianists of that time along with Ignace Paderewski, Moriz Rosenthal and Rafael Joseffy.
  Sieveking was an advocate of The Dead-Weight Principle of playing. He devised his own variation of this system and wrote several articles about the subject for publication. He was also an inventor of both musical and non-musical devices that he had patented in various countries.
context_section_description: He returned to the United States for a brief concert tour in the winter of 1895, arriving in New York City on October 21, 1895 aboard the La Champagne departing from Havre, Norway.  He gave a celebrated concert in Boston with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 7, 1895 where he played again Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2.  His reception amounted to an ovation. Enthusiasm run to such a height that at the first concert, the pianist had seven recalls, and at the second, eight. 
  Following this success he returned in the fall of 1896 with four consecutive performances on October 21, 23, 24 and 28 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  Among the other cities he performed in was Cumberland, Maryland on November 11, 1896 at the Saints Peter and Paul Church.  He gave a solo piano recital at  Carnegie Hall, New York City on December 8, 1896, followed by a performance in Atlanta, Georgia at the Grand Opera House on December 17 with violinist Maud Powell.
  On February 8, 1897, he performed in Columbus, Ohio at the newly built Southern Fireproof Theater with local soprano Lillian Miller.  He gave a solo piano recital at the Academy of Music in Allentown, Pennsylvania on March 2, 1897 and again on November 18, 1897.  He was managed for his American tour by music impresario Victor Thrane of Chicago.
caption: A sketch of Martinus Sieveking by Leonardus Nardus on the cover of Music Trade Review Magazine, June 5, 1897, published in New York City
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