Mr. George Worgan
1888; Volume: 29; Issue: 546 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3359399
ISSN2397-5326
Autores Tópico(s)Legal Education and Practice Innovations
Resumoon July 2, I828, some two years after its first representation at Covent Garden Theatre, London, under the personal direction of the composer.Berlin, which can boast many statues and monuments, has, it appears, not as yet a single one devoted to a musician, although some of its own sons, such as Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer, and even the early teacher of both genial old Zelter, the friend of Goethe, might seem to be certainly entitled to the distinction, sllch as it is.We now hear, however, that it is proposed to erect a monument?not indeed to the musicians just named, but to Beethoven, in the German capital, and that subscriptions are being successfully raised for the purpose of rendering this homage to the most cosmopolitan of the composers of the Fatherland.Liszt's Oratorio " The Legend of Saint Elizabeth," the public performances of hich are still few and far betsveen, has recently been produced, for the first time by the Singakademie of Jena, where it was enthusiastically received.It i5 rumoured in BeI lin musical circles that Herr Sucher-who quite recently accepted the post of Capellmeister at the Berlin Opera-has asked to be relieved of his engagement, and that he will be replaced by Herr Felix Mottl, of Carlsruhe, who, it is stated, has just declined a brilliant offer on the part of the directors of the Hungarian National Opera at Buda-Pesth.Herr Ignaz Brull's nesv opera " Das steinerne Herz,)7 the libretto wnereof is founded OI1 Hauff's popular story of the same title, has been accepted for performance at the Vienna Opera.The new work of the successful composer of the " Golden Cross " wili also be brought out by the German Opera of New York.Weber's comic opera, " Die drei Pintos," as completed by Herr Mahler, has now been produced at the majority of German operatic stages, Breslau, Bremen, and Coburg being the latest additions to their number.Among the operatic volks to lDe produced for the first time at the Vienna Hof-Theater during the approaching season will be Rubinstein's " The L)emon " Berliozts " Benvenuto Cellini," and Franchetti's " Asrael."Dr. Hernzann Kretzschma1-has been appointed to the conductorship of the celebrated Riedelsche Gesangverein, lately vacated by the death of its founder, Professor Carl Riedel, of Leipzig.M. Benjamin Godard, the well-known French composer has just completed an opera, " Dante et Beatrice," the libretto of svhich is from the pen of M. Blau.The new work will be brought out by the Opera Comique
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