. Programme . Convict, and there the song was first sung, to thedelight and wonder of all present. Spaun in 1817 sent to Goethemanuscript copies of Schuberts songs with a letter. Goethe nevermade answer. August Ritter von Gymnich, an amateur, was the first to singSdiuberts Erlking before a large audience. This was at a partyat Sannleithuers, December 1, 1820. In January of the next year hesang it at a meeting of a small music society, and a little laterPettenkofen and Vogl sang it in public with great effect. Erlking has been sung in Boston at concerts of the BostonSymphony Orchestra by Amalie
. Programme . Convict, and there the song was first sung, to thedelight and wonder of all present. Spaun in 1817 sent to Goethemanuscript copies of Schuberts songs with a letter. Goethe nevermade answer. August Ritter von Gymnich, an amateur, was the first to singSdiuberts Erlking before a large audience. This was at a partyat Sannleithuers, December 1, 1820. In January of the next year hesang it at a meeting of a small music society, and a little laterPettenkofen and Vogl sang it in public with great effect. Erlking has been sung in Boston at concerts of the BostonSymphony Orchestra by Amalie Joachim, March 26, 1892, JohannaGadski, October 31, 1903, Olive Fremstad, November 3, 1906,—thethree sang with pianoforte accompaniment,—by Mme. Schumann-Heink, November 2, 1907, with the accompaniment orchestrated byHector Berlioz, and by Emmy Destinn, December 12, 1908, withpianoforte accompaniment. The orchestration of the accompaniment at this concert is byLeopold Stokowsky. Complete Financial Service. Main Office, Court Street Old Colony Trust Company Boston, Massachusetts MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 757 In 1826 Hector Berlioz dreamed of an imitation of SchubertsErlking, and sketched this programme: Song of a murdererhidden with his young son in the Black Forest a cold night in song is accompanied by the groaning of the north wind, andoften interrupted by the child complaining, Father, I am cold!The father always replies to this complaint by reciting the De Pro-fundis. The two die. Monks of a brotherhood bear away the twobodies. Finale, chorus of people. Adolphe Jullien states in his Hector Berlioz that Berlioz or-chestrated the accompaniment of Schuberts Le Roi des Aulnes,French text by fidouard Bouscatel, that the celebrated tenor, Gus-tave Roger, (1815-79), might sing the ballad at Baden in 1860. Thescore is dedicated to Miss Franxilla (sic) Pixis. * (See Julliensbook, pp. 247, 380, Paris, 1888.) Jullien also states that Roger sangthe ballad at
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