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Source: The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 27, No. 523 (Sep. 1, 1886), pp. 545-547
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 THE MUSICAL TIMES.-SEPTEMBER I, 1886. 545
of revival. As to that, there is likely to be divisionof Seines WohlautsQuell,derjedemSchmerz
Ward zum Balsam,war sein eignesHerz,
opinion. It is, of course, a scholarlywork,but it is desti- Das verschwenrisch,wie das LichtderSonne,
tute of inspiration. The style is a compoundof Handel Sich ergossaus immervollemBronne.
and Haydn, with,we cannot help adding, a large propor- The fountainofhis melos,whichto ev'rysorrow
tion of water. Still it might seem well to some choral Came as a balsam,was his sterlingheart,
bodiesto perform a selectionfromit, ifonly as a curiosity. That ever-bounteous,likethe sun in heaven,
Poureditselfforthfromout its ownabundance!
FootPrintsof the Saviour. A Sacred Cantata. Words
selectedby BerthaRogers. Music by EdmundRogers. Concerning the ultimate destinationof the remains
of the veteran artist, the Berlin Allgemeine Musik
[J. Curwenand Sons.] Zeitung says: " Liszt's remains will probably be re-
SIDE by side with the increasedpublic appreciationof moved to Buda-Pesth. The will of the master, dated
the highestworks of musical art there has developed a 1861 and deposited at Weimar, appoints the Princess
taste for choral music which must be satisfiedby com- Wittgenstein,at Rome, Liszt's faithfuland congenial
positionsless exacting. Elementarysingingclasses have friend,his sole executrix,with power of disposing also
their needs, and no doubt the present work has been of his literaryremains, and of appointing, moreover,
writtenwith a view to supplythemwithsomethingmore the place of his interment. It is to be expectedthatthe
interestingthan a perpetual round of easy part-songs. Princess will decide upon Buda-Pesth for the latter, in
The librettoconsists of passages fromScripture,mingled conformity with the natural desire of Liszt's Hungarian
withwell-knownhymns; and thoughit followsthe life of friends,and in which case funeralceremonieson a grand
Christ fromHis birthto His ascension, it is wholly re- scale will doubtlessbe held in the Hungariancapital. The
flective,anythingapproachingdramatictreatmentbeing removalthereappearsthe morelikely,since no efforthas
carefullyexcluded. The music is, beforeeverything else, as yetbeen made on the partof the GrandDuke ofWeimar
simpleand straightforward, the chorusesbeing hymn-liketo claim the remains of his much-valuedfriendfor his
in character,withoutcontrapuntalelaboration; while in capital. On the other hand, and withoutspecial reasons
the solos Mr. Rogers has recognised the advisabilityof to the contrarybeing urged, effortswill be made at
being tuneful. We are afraidwe cannot avoid sayingthat Bayreuthto preventa disturbance of Liszt's presentresting
the work is essentiallycommonplace,but it has no greater place, such as the livingmasterwouldscarcelyhimselfhave
defect,and to thosewho sing it it may prove a stepping- contemplated withequanimity. At anyrate,he expresseda
stoneto the studyand appreciationofhigherthings. decidedlyadverseopinion to a similardisturbanceof the
dead at the timewhenthe question of the removalof the
Thou visitesttheearth,byArthurSimms; The raincomethremains of our great masters,Beethoven,Schubert,and
down, by ArthurTrickett; Fear not, 0 land, by S. C. othersto the centralcemeteryofVienna,was firstmooted."
Cooke. Harvest Anthems. " The numberof Liszt's compositions, so far as theyhave
[London Music PublishingCompany.] become known, is 647. Of these sixty-three appertain
THOUGH not particularlyoriginal, the firstof these to the orchestra(amongstthemthirty-three transcriptions)
harvest anthemsis by far the best in musicianlyqualities and 517 to the pianoforte (300 being transcriptions).
and general effectiveness. It is bright,yet solid and For the organ Liszt has writtentwentyworks; the num-
dignified,and what maybe called English in character. ber of his vocal compositions being thirty-nine,and
The composer does not indulge in sensuous chromatic thosebelongingto melodramafive. Liszt usuallyworked
harmonies,and his anthem is withinthe means of any at night; like Volckmann,he firstcommittedhis ideas to
amateurchoir. Mr. Tricketthas spoiled his compositionpaperand subsequentlyelaboratedthemat the pianoforte.
by cutting it up into small fragments. There are no He frequently alteredbeforehis compositionsreached the
fewerthan fivechanges of tempoin the course of three engraver's hands. Shortly before his last journey to
pages, the divisionsbeing quite arbitraryand notsuggested France and England he completedtwo Czardas, which are
by the sense of the words. There is a hideous pair of about to be published. In the year 1825 an opera by the
consecutivefifthsbetween alto and bass on the top line of youthfulLiszt was performedat the now extinctHall in
the thirdpage. Mr. Cooke's anthemis perfectlysimple the Rue Lepelletier, of Paris. It was entitled ' Don
and unassuming,and if it does not affordproofof any Sancho ou le ChAteaud'Amour,'the librettohaving been
remarkabletalent,it is at any rate freefromall mannerof writtenjointly by Thdaulon and a memberof the high
offence. aristocracyadoptingthe nom de plume of Ranc6. Liszt
afterwards destroyedthisearlywork." A most successful
Litany of the Incarnate Word. By the Rev. J. Baden cast of the featuresof the deceased masterwas taken by
Powell. [Novello, Ewer and Co.] the Bayreuth sculptor,Herr Weissbrod, the original of
which remainsin the possession of his daughter,Frau
WITHIN the compassof three octavo pages Mr. Powell Cosima
has managed to place a very pleasing and effectivelittle Wagner.
The Grand Duke of Weimar, in a letter recently
composition. In structureit is somethingbetweena hymn addressed to the Baron von Loen, of Bayreuth,warmly
tuneand an anthem,withsumptuousharmoniesand flowing advocatesthe foundationof a Liszt Fund
(Liszt-Stiftung),
passages of organ accompaniment. The composer is intended"to promotethe interestsof the New German
evidentlyan accomplishedmusician,witha distinctleaning School of Music, by grantingstipendsto talentedyoung
towardsthe modernschool. musicians,"and callingupon the artiststhenassembled at
the littleBavariantownto further as muchas in them lies
such an undertaking, whereby the memoryof the departed
FOREIGN NOTES. masterwould be mosteffectually honoured.
WE speciallyreferin anotherplace to the sad and irre- The Committeeof the BayreuthFestspielehave decided
parable loss which the entire musical world, and more to resumethe performances next summer,the attendance
particularlythe partyof progressamongstits constituents,thisyearhavingbeen all thatcould be desired.
have sustainedin the deathof Franz Liszt. As a matterof The followingcharacteristicremarks concerning the
course,Continentalmusicjournalslast monthhave devoted widowof RichardWagneroccurin a recentcorrespondence
muchof theirspace to the sorrowful tidings(nearlyall the fromBayreuth: "It is only with deep emotionthatone
Germanones appearingin mourning),while,withbut few can look at thiswoman,who cut offherhair to lay it into
exceptions,the articlessurveying the careerofthisremark-the coffinbefore it closed over the great departed,and
able artistand man have evinceda just appreciationboth whose short curls are now snow-white,like those of her
of his commandingindividualityand of the significanceof father. This, and the fact that grief has renderedher
his work,as a composer,to the futuredevelopmentof the features somewhat rigid, contribute not a little to
art. Among the poetic contributions to whichthe melan- the likenesswhich her face has latelyassumedto thatof
choly event has given rise may be instancedsome " In herfather,and whichis indeedstriking. She conductsthe
Memoriam" verses,publishedin the Tdgliche Rundschau, rehearsalsand otherarrangements withastonishingverve,
fromthe pen of the well-knownGerman poet, Friedrich while her intimateacquaintancewiththeworksofherlate
Bodenstedt, from which we quote the in
followingsympathetichusband,and his intentions connectiontherewith, render
lines:-- her a properauthority in orderto infusepurityof concep-

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546 THE MUSICAL TIMES.-SEPTEMBER I, 1886.
tion and firmnessinto the whole as well as into every Prague,on the occasion ofthe twenty-fifth anniversaryof
detail. Having spent the entire day amidst the feverishits foundation.
excitementofthisoccupation,she persistsin spendingpart A series of performancesof "The Mikado" is to be
of the nightfillingsheet upon sheet of paper containing givenduringthis monthby Messrs.Gilbertand Sullivan's
explanationsand commentariesto this or that artistcon- companyat the Carl-Theater,of Vienna.
cerningthe correctinterpretation of a passage in ' Parsifal' A monumentis to be erected at his nativevillage of
or in ' Tristan.' To enable herto devote herwhole time Waltersdorf,near Zittau, to Friedrich Schneider, the
to this work, Frau Cosima has, in fact, left the villa famous composerof oratorios,notablyof " Das Weltge-
' Wahnfried,'and has taken up herresidencefor the time richt,"and eminentteacher,amonghis pupilsbeingRobert
being at the Festspiel--laus." Franz. Schneiderdiedin 1853,as Capellmeisterat Dessau.
As at Munich (vide our last "Notes "), so also at M. Van Elewyck,a musical directorat Louvin,has, it is
Dresden, thereare to be two of
completeperformances stated,inventedan apparatuswhichmaybe easily adjusted
"
Wagner's " Nibelungen cycle--viz., one which took to any pianoforteor organ,and whichwill instantaneously
place last month,and a second one announcedforthe first reproducein printanythingwhich maybe played on the
week in the presentmonth. The second Munichperform-keyboard. M. Van Elewyck,who has been engaged for
ance,we mayagaininform intendingvisitorsto theBavarian over thirtyyears upon the workingout of this problem,
capital,is to commenceon the 13th,and will be completed has, it is added,latelyexhibitedhis inventionbeforethe
on the I9th inst. Belgian royalfamily, bywhomhe was highlycomplimented
The musicalworksof Fredericthe Great, consistingof upon his entiresuccess. He is about to visitthe French
sonatas, concertos,&c., for the favouriteinstrument, not capital forthe same purpose. It wouldbe difficult to over-
merely of the great King himself,but of last century estimatethe importance, both in a positiveand a negative
amateursgenerally-viz.,the flute-are to be publishedby sense, of this invention-ifit be reallyaccomplishedand
the firmof Breitkopfand Hirtel, of Leipzig. The com- applicableto practicaluses.
positionsare said to be of no inconsiderablemerit,betray- A most successfulConcert was recentlygiven by the
ing a distinct individuality,and showing that their Berlin PhilharmonicOrchestraat Scheveningen(Holland).
elaborationhad been looked uponby theirauthoras some- The vocaliston this occasion was Miss Agnes Larkcom,
thing more than a mere pastime. The issue of this who metwitha mostflattering reception.
interestingeditionhas been promotedin connectionwith The directorsof the Paris Grand Opera are actively
the present centenaryof the death of the warriorKing, engaged upon the mountingof M. Paladilhe's new Opera
man ofletters,and artist. " Patrie" (foundedupon M. Sardou's drama), Madame
At the BerlinOpera House, the followingworkswill be Krauss having enteredupon a freshengagementat that
producedforthe firsttimehereduringthepresentseason-- establishment forthe purposeof creatingone of the leading
viz., Wagner's "Gbtterddmmerung";"Donna Diana," by partsin thework. At the OpdraComiqueVerdi's " Iago "
"
Heinrich Hofmann; "Junker Heinz," by Perfall; Mer- is at length announced for performanceduring the
lin," by Riifer;and " Otto der Schiitz,"by Nessler. approachingseason. The productionof Berlioz's " Ben-
The OrchestralPensions Fund of Leipzig, an excellent venuto Cellini" is also contemplatedat this house. At
institution,
having forits the
object rendering material assist- the Eden Theatre (now styled " TheAtre Lyrique"),
ance to aged and decrepitmusicians,celebratedthe hun- M. Lamoureux,the zealous partisanof Wagner's Opera-
dredth anniversaryof its existence some weeks ago, it dramas, is preparinga series of representationsof that
having been foundedby Georg Hiiser in 1786. The in- master'sworks,whichare anticipatedwith no littleexcite-
stitutionat presentcommandsa capitalof a millionand mentin musicalcirclesof the Frenchcapital,althoughthe
a halfmarks,to whichMendelssohn,Schumann,Thalberg, ultimatesuccess of such an undertaking can now scarcely
Liszt, and othershave in theirtimecontributed not a little. be doubtful. Meanwhile, the war of pens between the
Carl Reinecke's new comic opera," AufhohenBefehl" admirersof the Bayreuthreformer and their"patriotic"
(" By superiororders"), has been accepted for perform-opponentsis being carried on as brisklyas ever in the
ance at the Hamburg Stadt-Theater,as well as at four French press, M. Camille Saint-Salins, among others,
otherGermanoperaticestablishments. coming in fora good share of abuse on the part of the
We extractthe followingparagraphfromthe Berliner former.
Courier: " In the comingyear a centurywillhave elapsed The heirs of Victor Hugo are denyingto the director
since the firstperformanceat Prague, for which town of the Opera Comique (somewhatlate in the day!) the
it was written,of Mozart's ' Don Giovanni.' It is the rightof performing Donizetti's " Lucrezia Borgia," on the
intentionof Herr Angelo Neumann, the directorof the groundof the composerhavingfailedat the timeto secure
Prague opera,to commemorate the eventby a jubilee per- the sanctionof the poet to his makinguse of the latter's
formanceof the workin connectionwith a grand Mozart dramaof the same titlein the librettoof his opera. It is,
Festival,at whichmusicalcelebritiesfromall parts of the however,well knownthatVictorHugo was generallyaverse
worldwill be invitedto assist. HerrNeumannhas already to the use of his dramas forpurposes of the lyricalstage,
communicatedupon the subjectwith the chief custodian and thata deal of persuasionhad to be employedbefore
of the Mozarteum,at Salzburg,witha view to securingfor his permissionto the Paris performanceof " Rigoletto"
thisoccasion such relicsand curiosa as may contributeto (foundedupon " Le Roi s'amuse") could be obtained.
render the contemplatedperformancespecially interest- A grand contestbetween Spanish and French choral
ing." societies,numberingin all some fourthousandvoices,was
We read in the Leipzig Signale : " Two gentlemenof announced to take place on the 3oth ult., at Madrid.
the name of Schultze have undertakento writean opera, M. Gounodwas to have presidedover the membersof the
the librettowhereofformsa sequel to the ' Zauberflbte.'jury.
The workhas alreadybeen submittedto Germanoperatic M. Leo D6libes is engaged upon the compositionof an
managers. The book is entitled'Nitokris,' and has Dr. opera forthe Paris Opera Comique. The workis entitled
Martin Schultze for its author,who takes up the story " Kassia," the librettohavingbeen furnished him by MM.
whereSchikaneder(wisely)leftit,and describestheulterior Meilhac and PhilippeGille, who have derivedtheirsubject
fateof the leading charactersin ' Die ZauberflMte.'The from a romance by Sacher Masoch, the Slavonic author.
author of the music is Herr Heinrich Anton Schultze. The M. Lasalle, the leading tenor of the Paris Op6ra, has
thing looks highly promising i " entered upon a fresh engagement for two years with the
At the Imperial Opera of Vienna an operatic work by Herr directors of that institution.
Hager, entitled " Marfa," is to be the first novelty to be A correspondent writes from Paris to the Daily Tele-
produced during the coming season. Massenet's "Le graph: " It appears that the bands of the various French
Cid" will follow, and Goldmark's new opera "Merlin" regiments have such different modes of executing the
will also be brought out later in the year. Weber's" Eury- 'Marseillaise,' that when several of them are called upon
anthe" has been selected as the festive performance on the to play together they are obliged to practice it before the
occasion of the centenary of the composer's birth in De- combined performance takes place. This fact has much
cember next. exercised the mind of General Boulanger, the active
The Emperor of Austria has bestowed the Gold Medal Minister of War, who has accordingly asked all the military
for Arts and Sciences upon the Choral Society "Hlaha," of bandmasters to devote their attention to the matter. The

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 THE MUSICAL TIMES.-SEPTEMBER I, I886. 547
arrangementwhich the authoritieswill select will be acters,well remembered also byLondon audiences,diedon
publishedand declared official,and the uniformity that is July22,at Dresden,aged forty-six.The partofGurnemanz,
now lackingwill therebybe secured." in " Parsifal,"is consideredto havebeenone ofhisfinestim-
At the Paris Opera Comique,a new opera,by M. Saint- personations. Amongthememorialofferings in connection
Sains, entitled" Proserpine,"is to be one of the novelties withthe deathof RichardWagnerstillpreservedin a room
duringthe comingseason. of the BayreuthFestspiel-Haus,there is a wreath sent
M. Weckerlin,the librarianof the Paris Conservatoire,at the time by Emil Scaria, and bearing the inscription
has just discovered a complete' copy of Jean Frangois " To the best and noblestofteachers,thegratefulpupil"-
Lesueur's last opera " Alexandre Babylon." The work, words characteristicalike ofthe man and ofthe artist.
thoughithad been engravedat theexpenseofthecomposer's The death is announced,at Vienna, at the age of eighty-
widow, has never been eitherpublishedor performedon five,of Adolf Mfiller,sen., a composer of extraordinary
any stage, and hithertoall trace of it appearedto be lost. fertility,whose operettasenjoyed at one timemuchpopu-
Lesueurflourished duringthe rigimeof Napoleon I., whose larityin the Austriancapital, and the numberof whose
favouritecomposerhe was, and hisworkswereheld in high compositionsis said to be over fourthousand. The de-
esteemeven by Hector Berlioz. He died in 1837. ceased was for manyyears the esteemedCapellmeisterof
Pope Leo XIII. has accepted the dedication of M. the Theateran derWien.
Gounod's Oratorio" Mors et Vita," and has expressedthe A memorialtablet is to be affixedto the house, No. 6,
desireto hear the workperformed at Rome on the occasion Pariser-Platz,occupiedby Meyerbeerduringhis residence
of the Papal Jubileein December next. M. Gounodwill in Berlin.
thenconducthis Oratorioin person. The death is announcedof FriedrichHaas, the builder
A Cantata entitled" Il Canto del Mare " will shortlybe of the famousorganin the Stiftskirche of Lucerne.
performed bytheVincenzo Bellini Choral Societyof Milan, The deathis also announced,on the Ioth ult., at Berlin,
the composerbeing SignorAlfredoDonizetti,a nephewof of August Eduard Grell,composerof churchmusic. We
the celebratedMaestroofthatname. recordthe eventat lengthin our obituarycolumn.
" Flora Mirabilis," the successfulopera by the young
Maistro Samara,has been acceptedforperformance during
the coming stagione by no less than fifteenoperatic
A
CORRESPONDENCE.
managersin Italy. new work by the same composer,
be
entitled" Medj6," will also shortly produced. TONIC SOL-FA MINOR SCALE.
The statue erectedto Bellini at Naples was unveiledon
TO THE EDITOR OF " THE MUSICAL TIMES."
the 8thult. amidstappropriateceremonies,and amongsta
large concourse of deputations from musical societies SIR,-At the end of a veryfavourablereviewof my new
hailingfromall partsof Italy. The statuefacesthefamous editionof Helmholtz,pages 481-4 of yourAugust number,
Conservatoriowhere,duringthe years 18Ig-1827, Bellini the reviewerputs some questions to me which I solicit
studied,he being more particularlya pupil of the then yourpermissionto answer.
celebratedMaistro Zingarelli. First,the reviewersays thatI " proposeto call inversion
The librettoof FriedrichLux's successfulopera," Der conversion,"and whatI "would call inversion,as exempli-
Schmied von Ruhla," is being translatedinto English, fied in his (my) harmoniccell, is reversion." I have spent
witha viewto the performance ofthe workin thiscountry. some timein endeavouringto findthe passages alluded to,
Madame Patti will startupon an extensiveConcerttour but have failedto discoverthem,and hence have not been
in the United States and South America,in November able, as requested,to take the matterinto consideration.
next. The celebrated primadonnawillperform theoperatic I am not at presentconsciousof havingmade the proposal,
portions of her programmesin the respectivecostumes but if the reviewerwill kindlyfurnishthe quarterpage in
appertainingto the different parts. Mdlle. MinnieHauk is my Helmholtz in which I have done so, I will not fail to
likewisepreparingfora similartransatlantic undertaking. considerthe "proposal."
It is reportedfromRio de Janeirothatmorethanone Secondly,the reviewerobjectsthatin my accountof the
half of the membersof the Italian Opera Companyin the Tonic Sol-fasystem,whicharose naturallyout of the text
Brazilian capitalhave recentlydied of yellowfever. of Helmholtz (App. xviii., p. 423, note tt), I did not
The score of Schubert's " heroico-romantic " Opera, criticisethe late Mr. Curwen'sviews on " the lah mode."
"Fierrabras," has just been added, as vol. vi. series 15, to As I had to give my own views of the several different
the completeeditionofthe master'sworksnowbeing issued minorscales, page 460, it seemed entirelyout of place to
by Messrs. Breitkopfand Hirtel. The opera had never mix up criticismwith history. But it was well known to
been publishedbeforein any form. the late Mr. Curwen,and it may be also in the recollec-
An English translationis about to be published by tionofthe presentprincipalexponentsofthe views he took
Messrs. H. Greveland Co., of M. ArthurPougin's interest-or practicehe pursued,that I entirelydisagreedwith his
ing volumeon "IVerdi: HistoireAnecdotiquede sa vie et theoryon this particularpoint; but for other reasons,
de ses (Euvres." explicitlystated at a special discussionon the subject,
We have received a numberof the Musikalisch-Liter-acquiesced in the course adopted. The reviewerhowever
arischerMonatsbericht, beinga catalogueofnewmusicalpub- asks my "exegesis" of a statementby Mr. Litchfieldin
licationsissued in Germany,Austria,and Switzerland,and Grove's Dictionaryof Music,vol. iv., p. 147, col. 2, note 2,
embracingeverybranchof the art. It is the mostcomplete wherehe says I " shallfindwrittenthesestupendouswords
compilationof its kind we have yet seen, and its useful- -A minorshould be C minor." The reviewerhas rather
ness to both professors and amateursis so obvious as to twistedthe sense in thisabridgedcitation,forthe actual
requireno furtherrecommendation.The Monatsbericht,words are only: "The practiceof centuries in points of
as its title indicates,is publishedmonthly,at an annual technicalnomenclaturecannot,ofcourse,be reversed,but
subscription priceof one shilling,by FriedrichHofmeister,it is plain that the phrase 'relative' minor is deceptive.
of Leipzig. The scale called ' A minor' wouldbe morereasonablycalled
We have also receivedthe currentnumberof the Musi- (as its signaturein effectcalls it) C minor." The wordsin
kalischefugendpost,a musicjournaldedicatedtotheyoung, parenthesis,which the reviewerdid not cite, are all-im-
and publishedby P. J. Tonger,of Cologne. Referencehas portant. The phrase, as the signature,should mean a
already been made in these columnsto this publication, minorscale formedwiththe notesof C major. But this is
whichfullymeritsthe popularsupportit apparentlyenjoys, also " deceptive,"even in the equally temperedscale, for
combininguseful instructionwith healthyentertainment,F? and G? are, the firstoccasionally,the latterregularly,
and being adorned,moreover,by numeroustastefulillus- introducedintothe minorscale of A, and do not forma part
trations. of C major.
On the 29thofJulylast, thirtyyears have elapsed since Mr. Curwen took the nomenclatureof his minorscale
the death,at an asylumnear Bonn, of Robert Schumann. fromMiss Glover,who introducedthe termsbah and nee
As a consequence, the copyrightvested in the works of forthe two notes referred to, ofwhich nee,writtenni, and,
thatmasterhas now expired. as I remember,called nigh, is to be foundin the older
EmilScaria,theexcellentbassooftheViennaHof-Theater, Tonic Sol-fabooks,but was some yearsago replacedbyse,
and one of the mostvaluedinterpreters ofWagnerianchar- called see. Bah howeverstillremainswrittenba and called

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