Programme . I must tire myselfout by giving lessons; for at sixty years Bruckner was teaching forthree guldens a lesson. Beethoven was his idol, and after a performanceof one of the greater symphonies he was as one insane. After a per-formance of the Eroica, he said to Hruby,—would that it werepossible to reproduce Bruckners dialect,—I think that if Beethovenwere alive, and I should go to him with my Seventh Symphony andsay, Here, Mr. Van Beethoven, this is not so bad, this Seventh, ascertain gentlemen would make out, ... I think he would take me bythe hand and say, My dear Bruckner, never min
Programme . I must tire myselfout by giving lessons; for at sixty years Bruckner was teaching forthree guldens a lesson. Beethoven was his idol, and after a performanceof one of the greater symphonies he was as one insane. After a per-formance of the Eroica, he said to Hruby,—would that it werepossible to reproduce Bruckners dialect,—I think that if Beethovenwere alive, and I should go to him with my Seventh Symphony andsay, Here, Mr. Van Beethoven, this is not so bad, this Seventh, ascertain gentlemen would make out, ... I think he would take me bythe hand and say, My dear Bruckner, never mind, I had no betterluck; and the same men who hold me up against you even now do notunderstand my last quartets, although they act as if they understoodthem. Then Id say to him, Excuse me, Mr. Van Beethoven, thatI have gone beyond you in freedom of form, but I think a true artistshould make his own forms for his own works, and stick by once said of Hanslick: I guess Hanslick understands as little. LISZT TWO LECTURE RECITALS L WMa Lkzl In W©i:max?? Piano Compositions by LisztWith personal reminiscences A Program of Piano Compositions by Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, and Liszt, with interpretative analyses JOHN ORTH Concert Pianist and Teacher of PianoSTEINERT HALL CHARLES ANFH0Mif PIANIST and TEACHER STEINERT HALL Tuesdays and Fridays 288 about Brahms as about Wagner, me, and others. And the DoctorHanslick knows as much about counterpoint as a chimney-sweep aboutastronomy. Hanslick was to Bruckner as a pursuing demon. (We are givingHrubys statement, and Hanslick surely showed a strange perseveranceand an unaccountable ferocity in criticism that was abuse.) Hrubylikens this critic to the Phylloxera vastairix in the vineyard. He reallybelieves that Hanslick sat up at night to plot Bruckners affirms that Hanslick tried to undermine him in the Conservatoryand the Imperial Chapel, that he tried to influence conductors againstthe performance of his works. And he
Size: 1387px × 1803px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbostonsy, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookyear1881
