. Programme . en it. Now what did Btilow write? First after my acquaintance withthe Tenth Symphony, alias Symphony No. 1, by Johannes Brahms,that is since six weeks ago, have I become so intractable and sohard against Bruch-pieces and the like. I call Brahmss first sym-phony the Tenth, not as though it should be put after the Ninth;I should put it between the Second and the Eroica, just as I thinkby the first Symphony should be understood, not the first of Beet-hoven, but the one composed by Mozart, which is known as theJupiter. The first performance in Boston was by the Harvard MusicalAssocia
. Programme . en it. Now what did Btilow write? First after my acquaintance withthe Tenth Symphony, alias Symphony No. 1, by Johannes Brahms,that is since six weeks ago, have I become so intractable and sohard against Bruch-pieces and the like. I call Brahmss first sym-phony the Tenth, not as though it should be put after the Ninth;I should put it between the Second and the Eroica, just as I thinkby the first Symphony should be understood, not the first of Beet-hoven, but the one composed by Mozart, which is known as theJupiter. The first performance in Boston was by the Harvard MusicalAssociation, January 3, 1878. Carl Zerrahn conducted. The pro-gramme was as follows: Weber, Overture to Euryanthe; Grieg,Pianoforte concerto (William H. Sherwood, pianist) ; Gade, Alle-gretto from the Third Symphony; Pianoforte solos; Handel, Fuguein E minor; Chopin, Nocturne in F sharp, Op. 15, No. 2; Bargiel, The Boston Music Co. []26 West Street ^lephone Beach 1561 le most convenientmusic store in toivn^. complete stock of ALL the latest music 604 Scherzo from Suite Op. 31; Brahms, Symphony in C minor, No. S. Dwight wrote in his Journal of Music that the total im-pression made on him was as something depressing and unedify-ing, a work coldly elaborated, artificial; earnest to be sure, in somesense great, and far more satisfactory than am^ symphony by Raff,or any others of the day, which we have heard; but not to be men-tioned in the same day with any symphony by Schumann, Men-delssohn, or the great one by Schubert, not to speak of . Our interest in it will increase, but we foresee the limit; andcertainly it cannot be popular; it will not be loved like the dearmasterpieces of genius. The Harvard Musical Association gavea second performance on January 31, 1878. The New York Tribune published early in 1905 a note communi-cated by Mr. Walter Damrosch concerning the first performanceof the symphony in New York:— When word reached America in 1877 that Brah
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