There were 172 concerts in the month of October and the last 9 days of September, considerably more than earlier months. As usual, the most of any type were the 41 solo voice concerts; piano had 30 and violin 16. There were 18 of what I have labeled “mixed,” usually a concert of two soloists, such as voice and violin. Besides the solo concerts, there were 25 orchestra concerts, 21 chamber, 10 choral, 5 vocal ensemble, and 6 composer concerts, See the searchable spreadsheet below for more specifics.
By the end of October it was especially hectic, and continued this way until Christmas.1The journal Signale für die musikalische Welt noted how on 29 October the city was graced with eight concerts at the same time.Numbers don’t tell the whole story, of course, and this autumn undoubtedly felt more packed than ever due to the opening of three new concert halls.
New Concert Halls
The Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal and Blüthner Hall were both at Lützowstr. 76 at Magdeburger Platz, which is a modest park today (see the photo at the top of the page). The piano maker Blüthner now had, like Bechstein, a performance venue with their name on the building. The Blüthner (1200 seats)2The photo above specifies “1500 Personen” and other sources say 1600 “places”–these numbers presumably include standing room capacity. was the larger hall with better acoustics. Arthur Abell reported that it had a shoe-box shape, and was “tastefully finished off in white, light blue and gold. The ceiling is slightly arched and an effective background is formed for the stage by a very fine organ with aluminum pipes. The chairs are dark red. There are balconies on both sides and at the back.”3Musical Courier, 30 October (1907): 9. The Klindworth-Scharwenka Hall seated about 600 and was more square-shaped with a balcony at the back. Despite its name, it was not intended to serve as the hall for the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory.
The Choralion Hall (400 seats) at Bellevuestr. 4 (where the Ritz Carlton is today) was thought to be very nice to look at, and the organ was outstanding, but the acoustics were problematic. (This is where the premiere of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire took place on 16.10.1912.)
Philharmonic Popular Concerts
After ending their summer concerts at Scheveningen on 30 September, the Berlin Philharmonic’s popular concerts began their season with a new conductor on 2 October. The overworked August Scharrer was replaced by Dr. Ernst Kunwald, who soon became just as overworked. (It looks like the Orchestra had only three days off during October.) Kunwald (1868-1939) had a law degree from the University of Vienna and had studied piano with Leschetizsky. He got off to a good start with his first program. Arthur Abell commented: “These concerts are called ‘popular,’ but the program of this one would have been a credit to any serious symphony concert of the first rank. It comprised symphonies by Beethoven and Haydn, Bach’s concerto for two violins and orchestra and a Handel Concerto Grosso.”4Musical Courier 23 October (1907):9. Another critic mentioned that Kunwald intended to program more works that were new to the orchestra, since they would then have mandated rehearsal time.This implies they didn’t usually rehearse.
Pianists
The incredible lineup of Liszt students of the previous spring was diminished by three: first, Eugen d’Albert decided to concentrate exclusively on composition. His opera Tiefland (1903) was produced for the first time in Berlin and a comic opera, Tragaldabas, premiered in Hamburg. Bernard Stavenhagen moved on to the Geneva Conservatory, and Alfred Reisenauer died while on tour in Latvia on 3 October. He was forty-three years old. Earlier in the year the critic Arthur Laser had written that although there were so many great pianists playing in Berlin, Reisenauer put most of them in the shade.5Arthur Laser, Kritische Rundschau, Neue Musik-Zeitung 29 (1908): 266. The composer and former student Sergei Bortkiewicz arranged a concert in his memory, at which Reisenauer’s compositions were played, and there were several interesting articles written about him in the papers.
Reisenauer began his study with Liszt at age 13 and followed him when he moved to Rome, for a total of nine years of study. He assisted Wagner in transferring his first sketches of Parsifal to the piano. Although he made his debut in 1881, he was absent from the usual concert halls beginning in 1887 after he toured Russia, going as far as Siberia. He visited remote locations in the Far East, not returning until 1893.6Eugen Kobold, Neue Musik-Zeitung 29 (1908): 36. He became professor at Leipzig Conservatory in 1900 and then its director. Although over his career he played over 2000 concerts, he suffered terrible stage fright, which became worse in later years. An obituary in one of the Berlin newspapers referred to his reputation for playing while drunk. Other accounts described him bringing a brandy bottle with him on stage, crawling under the piano to retrieve a brandy bottle, and falling asleep during the orchestral exposition of the Emperor Concerto.7Berliner Börsen Zeitung 13.10.1907 (Morgen Ausgabe): 9. Although he played Liszt and other bravura pieces, he was also described as a sensitive, inward tone-poet who was at his best playing Schumann.
Of course, there were more than enough pianists giving concerts this month:
Tried and true: Eduard Risler (1873-1929), Max Pauer (1866-1945), Emil Sauer (1862-1942), Conrad Ansorge (1862-1930); Wunderkinder: Mieco Horszowski (b. 1892), Susanne Morvay (b. 1896); Up and coming: Paul Goldschmidt (b. 1882), Germaine Schnitzer (b. 1887), Alice Ripper (b. 1883); Recently established stars: Harold Bauer (b. 1873), Ernest Schelling (b. 1876), Gottfried Galston (b. 1879).
Violinists
Every famous violin virtuoso was in town in October, it seemed. Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) played the Brahms Concerto, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Fantasy on Russian Themes,” and Sinigaglia’s “Rhapsodie Piedmontese.” Emile Sauret (1852-1919), who had been a featured soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic as early as 1883, was back from America and was judged as wonderful as ever. Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956), who had made a triumphant Berlin debut in 1902, performed the Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns B minor, and Tchaikovsky Concertos. Henri Marteau (1874-1934), who would be playing plenty of concertos in November, gave a chamber concert this month with his frequent collaborator, pianist Ellen Saatweber-Schlieper.
New Violin Concertos:
Emmanuel Moór dedicated his Third Violin Concerto to Carl Flesch, who performed the premiere. A couple weeks later, Jacques Thibaud played Moór’s Violin Concerto No. 2, which had been dedicated to Henri Marteau. Moór (1863-1931) was a Hungarian pianist and very prolific composer, almost completely forgotten today. Arthur Abell commented, “Moór has a very peculiar style, to me it seems lacking in spontaneity, and yet great artists are taking him up.”8He also mentioned that Moór had also had his “Symphonic Suite” performed recently at the Concertgebouw with Mengelberg conducting. He wrote about the Third Concerto: “Moór is evidently a serious musician and a man of high endeavor, but notwithstanding Flesch’s splendid performance I failed to get much enjoyment out of this work.” Musical Courier 30 October (1907):10.
Jenö Hubay’s Violin Concerto No. 3 was dedicated to his student, the Wunderkind Franz von Vecsey, who was now 14 years old. He performed the premiere on the 28 October Philharmonic subscription concert.
Kathleen Parlow (1890-1963) had just finished at the St. Petersburg Conservatory; she was the only female and certainly the only Californian in Leopold Auer’s class. The 17-year-old gave four concerts in which the critics judged that she more than held her own against the competition. And then there was little Vivien Chartres (1893-1941), described as 12 years old. The number of times critics were “astonished” or “verblüfft” seems to indicate they were truly at a loss. Abell wrote:
Her performance of Vieuxtemps’ D minor concerto was technically well-nigh flawless, and the ease, force and subtleness with which she manipulated her bow was astonishing. She played with the decision and aplomb of a veteran of the concert stage, and yet there was a sweet, childish air that lent a peculiar charm to all that she did.9Musical Courier 6 November (1907): 11.
Concerts in September and October 1907
Performer | Date | Type | Program | Comments from Reviews | Venue |
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Dedication of the K-S Saal | 10/6/07 | Mixed | Beethoven | Mayer-Mahr, van Veen, van Lier, Sistermans | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal |
Felix Lederer-Prina | 09/26/1907 | Composition | sung by Dessoir | Saal Bechstein | |
Bernhard Sekles | 09/27/1907 | Composition | a lot of originality (Laser, NMZ 85) Lieder | Saal Bechstein | |
Mark Günzburg | 09/27/1907 | Piano | not mature yet, empty bravura | Beethovensaal | |
Hekking Trio | 09/28/1907 | Chamber | 1st of 6; Americans with him, Clarence Adler, Louis Siegel | Beethovensaal | |
Eugenie Argiewicz | 09/28/1907 | Violin | Saal Bechstein | ||
Weingartner, Königliche Kapelle | 09/30/1907 | Orch | Trauerfeier for Joachim; Georg Schumann soloist | ||
Artur Argiewicz | 09/30/1907 | Violin | Vieuxtemps #5, Bach, Devil’s Trill, Paganini | he has made progress | Beethovensaal |
Karl Götz | 09/30/1907 | Voice | Baritone; Loewe | Saal Bechstein | |
Anton Schlosser | 10/01/1907 | Mixed | Franz, Schumann, Wolff, Pfitzner | Josef Pembaur, Beethoven op. 90 | Saal Bechstein |
Wladimir Drossdoff | 10/01/1907 | Piano | Bach-Liszt, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Glazounow… | “aus Petersburg” | Singakademie |
Kurt Lietzmann | 10/01/1907 | Voice | Brahms, Mendelssohn, Vrieslander | Ok; baritone | Beethovensaal |
Pop | 10/02/1907 | Pop | Beethoven, Haydn, Handel | Opening concert | Philharmonie |
Hans Heilscher | 10/02/1907 | Voice | Schumann, Strauss, Löwe, Plüddemann | Baritone, Plüddemann piano | Saal Bechstein |
Bruno Tuerschmann | 10/02/1907 | Voice | Enoch Arden by Tennyson | melodramatischer Abend with Madeleine Astorga piano | Singakademie |
Gustav Franz | 10/02/1907 | Voice | Kaun,Ertel, EJ Wolff, | Plüddeman as composer, in MS, not a good voice | Beethovensaal |
Kammermusik series | 10/03/1907 | Chamber | Brahms | Schnirlin, Eisenberger, piano; Fritz Becker, cello; w/Jeannette Grumbacher | Saal Bechstein |
Dr. Emil Geyer, Alice Schwabe | 10/03/1907 | Mixed | Chopin, D’Albert | Melodramen, recitation, piano solos | Architektenhaus |
Wladimir Poppoff | 10/03/1907 | Piano | Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt | too nervous, bad technique his debut | Singakademie |
Emanuel Wad | 10/03/1907 | Piano | Grieg, Rubinstein, Paderewsky | Phil. Orch. first time under Kunwald, very good; Wad was not so good | Beethovensaal |
Helene Staegemann | 10/03/1907 | Voice | Mozartsaal | ||
Arthur Perleberg | 10/04/1907 | Composition | doesn’t have his own voice; Dessoir, Mitnitzsky, Karl Kämpf on harmonium | Saal Bechstein | |
Käte u. Maria Heumann, lieder duet | 10/04/1907 | Vocal Group | they have gained praise as a duet, but they wreck this impression by singing too many individual numbers | Beethovensaal | |
Iduna Walter-Choinanus | 10/05/1907 | Mixed | Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg | Bruno Hinze-Reinhold played Liszt show pieces | Singakademie |
Dedication of Blüthner Saal | 10/05/1907 | Mixed | Tchaikovsky | Pathetique, Kathleen Parlow | Blüthner Saal |
Ernst Schelling | 10/05/1907 | Piano | Emperor C., Chopin f minor, Liszt-Busoni Spanish Rhapsody | Beethovensaal | |
Halir Quartet | 10/06/1907 | Chamber | Brahms | All the Brahms chamber music with G. Schumann | Beethovensaal |
Mozart Orchestra | 10/06/1907 | Orch | Drechsel conducting | Blüthner Saal | |
Pop | 10/06/1907 | Pop | Joachim, Hamlet O., 1st mvt. Hungarian Concerto | In memoriam Joachim, date uncertain | Philharmonie |
Robert Spörry | 10/06/1907 | Voice | Schubert | advertised series of 6 matinees, Dr. Rudolf Bode on piano | Saal Bechstein |
Kathleen Parlow | 10/07/1907 | Mixed | Glazunov, Tartini, Paganini; songs by Gluck, Martini, Tchaikovsky | and Florence Monteith, voice. | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal |
Mozart Orchestra | 10/07/1907 | Orch | Spohr concerto played by CM Hans Meyer | Mozartsaal | |
Fritz Kreisler | 10/07/1907 | Violin | Brahms, Mozart, Rimsky Korsakow | Beethovensaal | |
Agnes Fridrichowicz | 10/07/1907 | Voice | Singakademie | ||
Heinrich Pestalozzi | 10/07/1907 | Voice | baritone; needs to work on some things, not ready | Saal Bechstein | |
Julia Culp | 10/07/1907 | Voice | Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss | very very good, popular Liederabend | Blüthner Saal |
Pop | 10/08/1907 | Pop | Philharmonie | ||
Hermann Seidel | 10/08/1907 | Violin | Bruch, Mendelssohn | very young; Mozart Orch. | Blüthner Saal |
Joanna Dietz | 10/08/1907 | Voice | “Zum Gedächtnis für Franz Liszt” | From Munich | Saal Bechstein |
Angelika Rummel | 10/08/1907 | Voice | Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss | she could be very good | Beethovensaal |
Opening concert Choralion Saal | 10/09/1907 | Mixed | Dessoir, Busoni, Irrgang | Choralion Saal | |
Eduard Risler | 10/09/1907 | Piano | Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Hahn, Saint-Saens | his program was more modest than usual | Beethovensaal |
Anna von Gabain | 10/09/1907 | Piano | Schubert Fantasie op. 15, Weber Sonata op. 39, Mendelssohn, Schumann 1st sonata | Not good for more than house music | Saal Bechstein |
Pop | 10/09/1907 | Pop | Philharmonie | ||
Arthur Hartmann | 10/09/1907 | Violin | Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky | 3 concertos: Mendelssohn | Mozartsaal |
Ella Gmeiner | 10/09/1907 | Voice | Loewe, Weingartner, Liszt, Brahms | contralto, trying too much for stage effects | Singakademie |
Hermann Lafont | 10/10/1907 | Piano | Liszt | Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin | Saal Bechstein |
Egon Pütz | 10/10/1907 | Piano | Grieg, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Smetana, MacDowell | Prize winning student at Paris Conservatoire | Choralion Saal |
Carl Flesch | 10/10/1907 | Violin | Brahms, Reger, Moór | solo sonata by Reger, new concerto no. 3 E major by Emanuel M, op. 66 | Beethovensaal |
Richard Koennecke | 10/10/1907 | Voice | 1st; Has made progress, but has affectations | Mozartsaal | |
Grete Steffens | 10/10/1907 | Voice | Schubert, Schumann, Cornelius, Brahms | voice isn’t stable or big enough | Singakademie |
Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde | 10/11/1907 | Orch | Jean Nicodé | “Gloria” Symphony for the first time, Fried, only other performance ADMV Frankfurt | Philharmonie |
Wladimir Drossdoff | 10/11/1907 | Piano | Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, d’Albert, Liszt | Russian pianist, modern program | Singakademie |
Emy u. Friedrich Schwabe | 10/11/1907 | Vocal Group | Hermann Durra lieder, Rubinstein, Cornelius, Brahms, Franz, Schumann, Schubert,… | she is good, he isn't | Beethovensaal |
Paula Schick-Nauth | 10/11/1907 | Voice | Cherubini, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Schillings | Good; soprano; Gustav Lazarus piano | Saal Bechstein |
Mieco Horszowski | 10/12/1907 | Piano | Beethoven, Chopin | Rhythmically uncertain | Singakademie |
Theodore Spiering | 10/12/1907 | Violin | Bach E major, Spohr’s Gesangscene, Vieuxtemps a minor, Joachim’s Variations | Beethovensaal | |
Vivien Chartres | 10/12/1907 | Violin | Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Hubay, Sarasate | Mendelssohn, Grieg, Bazzini | Saal Bechstein |
Pop | 10/13/1907 | Pop | Gesterkamp, Malkin solos | Philharmonie | |
Mozart Orchestra | 10/13/1907 | Orch | Wagner | Blüthner Saal | |
Leocadie Kaschperow | 10/14/1907 | Composition | Symphony, concerto | she is a talent; compositions rather superficial, played piano concerto herself | Singakademie |
I. Philharmonic | 10/14/1907 | Orch | Brahms, Bach, Joachim | in memoriam Joachim: J concerto; Bach cantata; Brahms 3rd | Philharmonie |
Berliner Lieder Quartet | 10/14/1907 | Vocal Group | B. Dessau, Antonie Stern | Beethovensaal | |
Gustav Thümler-Walden | 10/14/1907 | Voice | Pleasant baritone but the pianist was not adequate | Saal Bechstein | |
K-G-K choir | 10/15/1907 | Choral | Folk songs from the book sponsored by the Kaiser | Beethovensaal | |
Waldemar Meyer Quartet | 10/15/1907 | Chamber | Op 135 Beethoven; Joachim Hungarian Concerto | Choral piece by Beethoven | Singakademie |
Eduard Behm | 10/15/1907 | Composition | Lieder, clarinet quintet, violin sonata | with Bernhard Dessau, a serious and substantive work, Dessau Q | Saal Bechstein |
Pop | 10/15/1907 | Pop | Philharmonie | ||
Ernst Breest | 10/15/1907 | Violin | not suited to the concert hall | Mozartsaal | |
Gottfried Galston | 10/16/1907 | Piano | Bach | 1st of 5 | Singakademie |
Artur Reinhold | 10/16/1907 | Piano | Bach, CPE Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin | Young Reisenauer student, op. 106 | Saal Bechstein |
Pop | 10/16/1907 | Pop | Philharmonie | ||
Hamburger Frauenquartett | 10/16/1907 | Vocal Group | Palestrina, Donati, Mozart, Brahms, Vierling, Berger | Bruno H-R played piano pieces by Poglietti u. Roameau | Beethovensaal |
Mara Lennah | 10/16/1907 | Voice | hotel de rome | ||
Karoline Doepper-Fischer | 10/16/1907 | Voice | Schubert | with Theodor Prusse, piano | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal |
Königliche Kapelle | 10/17/1907 | Chamber | Mozart, Beethoven, Seles | wind serenades | Singakademie |
Lionel Tertis, York Bowen | 10/17/1907 | Chamber | Brahms, Bowen, Dale | Mozartsaal | |
Philharmonisches Trio | 10/17/1907 | Chamber | Dvorak, Haydn, Grieg, Alkan | Witek, Malkin, Gerhardt, with Luise Geller-Wolter, Juan Luria | Oberlichtsaal |
Mozart Orchestra | 10/17/1907 | Orch | Wagner | ||
Paul G. Thiele | 10/17/1907 | Piano | Weber, Chopin, Liszt | Choralion Saal | |
Paul Goldschmidt | 10/17/1907 | Piano | Brahms, Liszt | Brahms d minor, liszt e-flat, Rubinstein d minor | Beethovensaal |
Nicoline Zedeler | 10/17/1907 | Violin | Saint-Saens, Sinding, Reger | Wieniawski, Veuxtemps | Saal Bechstein |
Robert Kothe | 10/17/1907 | Voice | German and dutch folk songs u. Ballades to the lute | Meistersinglied… | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal |
In memory of Kaiser Friedrich III | 10/18/1907 | Choral | Cherubini Requiem | Caecilia Melodia Männergesangverein, Mozart Och. | K W G K |
Ernest Schelling | 10/18/1907 | Piano | 2nd | Beethovensaal | |
Historical Sonata Abend | 10/18/1907 | Chamber | Buxtehude, Bach, Corelli, Handel, Abaco | Friedrich Walter Porges, violin Schrattenholz, cello, Carl Hasse, piano | Saal Bechstein |
Königliche Kapelle | 10/18/1907 | Orch | Liszt, Weber, Schumann | Dante symphony | Oper |
Käthe Heinemann | 10/18/1907 | Piano | Bach, Liszt, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert | Nothing but Fingerfertigkeit | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal |
Paul Reimers | 10/18/1907 | Voice | Brahms, Wolf | tenor, good pronunciation | Singakademie |
Susanne Morvay | 10/19/1907 | Orch | Mozart,Tchaikovsky, Mozart | (ad says 11 yrs old): Liszt #1, Mozart C minor, Tchaik b minor, Mozart Orch | Blüthner Saal |
Martha Drews, Hildegard Hummel | 10/19/1907 | Mixed | Mozart, Bach, Bruch, Weber, Sitt | Viola and voice | Singakademie |
Max Pauer | 10/19/1907 | Piano | Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Schumann | Liszt B minor Sonata, Davidsbündlertänze | Beethovensaal |
Hermann Weissenborn | 10/19/1907 | Voice | Brahms | Schöne Magelone with Clemens Schmalstich | Saal Bechstein |
Pop | 10/20/1907 | Pop | Philharmonie | ||
Halir Quartet | 10/20/1907 | Chamber | Brahms | Beethovensaal | |
Emil Severin | 10/20/1907 | Voice | Loewe | Singakademie | |
Mientje Lammen | 10/20/1907 | Voice | Schumann | Young soprano | Saal Bechstein |
Robert Spörry | 10/20/1907 | Voice | Schubert | Winterreise | Saal Bechstein |
Helene Fürst, Helene Schaul | 10/21/1907 | Chamber | Bach, Mozart, Schubert | Sonatenabend | Singakademie |
Philharmonisches Chor | 10/21/1907 | Choral | Brahms, Wolf | Julia Culp, Ludwig Hess Arnold Mendelssohn Paria (first time) orchestrated Hugo Wolf, Bernhard Scholz's Sylvesterglocken (first time) | Philharmonie |
Mozart orchestra | 10/21/1907 | Orch | Wagner, Liszt, Strauss | Karl Panzner cond., Karl Burrian, Lohengrin and Tannhauser Erzählungen | Mozartsaal |
Kathleen Parlow | 10/21/1907 | Violin | 3rd concert, Florence Monteith, voice | Blüthner Saal | |
Leonore Wallner | 10/21/1907 | Voice | Brahms | Saal Bechstein | |
Ada Stoer-Lingenfelder, Martha Berthold | 10/21/1907 | Voice | Soprano and piano | Beethovensaal | |
Pop | 10/22/1907 | Pop | Philharmonie | ||
Felix Senius | 10/22/1907 | Voice | Bach, Schubert, Brahms, Wolf | Saal Bechstein | |
Berta Stahlberger-Stockert | 10/22/1907 | Mixed | alto, with Ossip Schnirlin, violin | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal | |
“Sorga" | 10/22/1907 | Orch | Liszt E-flat C | Mozart Orchestra, Alice Ripper | Blüthner Saal |
Germaine Schnitzer | 10/22/1907 | Piano | 1st (studied w/Pugno in Paris and in Vienna w/Sauer) | Mozartsaal | |
Emil Sauer | 10/22/1907 | Piano | Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Grieg, Liszt | Also Sauer’s own works | Beethovensaal |
Dora Moran | 10/22/1907 | Voice | Lieder und Arienabend | Singakademie | |
Marix Loevensohn | 10/23/1907 | Cello | Gernsheim, Lalo, Fauré, Boellmann | concerto conducted by composer | Mozartsaal |
Carl Flesch and Georges Enesco | 10/23/1907 | Chamber | Enesco’s 2nd sonata, op 6 | Beethovensaal | |
Max Wever | 10/23/1907 | Mixed | Laura Helbling-Lafont violin | Saal Bechstein | |
Pop | 10/23/1907 | Pop | Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven | Philharmonie | |
Barth’sche Madrigal Vereinigung | 10/23/1907 | Vocal Group | Singakademie | ||
Ludwig Wüllner | 10/23/1907 | Voice | Schubert, Beethoven, Wolf | Schone Müllerin, Adelaide | Hochschule |
Henri Marteau | 10/24/1907 | Chamber | Mozart, Beethoven, Thuille | 3 violin sonatas; Ellen Saatweber-Schlieper, piano (she gets top billing) 1st | Mozartsaal |
Dom Chor concert | 10/24/1907 | Choral | Dom | ||
“Elite” Concert | 10/24/1907 | Mixed | Gemma Bellincioni sang opera arias Otto Briesemeister, Godowsky | Philharmonie | |
Klara Erler | 10/24/1907 | Mixed | Scarlatti, Veracini, Handel, Schumann, Weingartner… | with Halir on violin, plays Joachim works | Beethovensaal |
Elisabeth Bokemeyer | 10/24/1907 | Piano | Chopin, Liszt, Volkmann | 1st concert | Singakademie |
Gerda Rombell | 10/24/1907 | Voice | Soprano | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal | |
Elsa Berny | 10/24/1907 | Voice | Saal Bechstein | ||
Bach B minor mass, Generalprobe | 10/24/1907 | Choral | Bach | Schumann, conductor Singakademie | Singakademie |
Sevcik Quartet with Schnabel | 10/25/1907 | Chamber | Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Smetana | Schubert d minor; S-S Piano Quintet | Beethovensaal |
Bach B minor mass | 10/25/1907 | Choral | Bach | Schumann, conductor Singakademie | Singakademie |
Valerie Thomán | 10/25/1907 | Mixed | voice, with Morvay, and Stefan Thomán, piano | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal | |
Madeleine Cocoresu | 10/25/1907 | Piano | Saal Bechstein | ||
Willy Burmester | 10/25/1907 | Violin | Beethoven | popular concert, Stefaniai, piano | Philharmonie |
Hugo Wolf Abend | 10/25/1907 | Voice | Wolf | Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Hertha Dehmlow, Hjalmar Arlberg | Blüthner Saal |
Mena Töpfer | 10/26/1907 | Piano | 11 yr old Leschetizsky student | Saal Bechstein | |
Jacques Thibaud | 10/26/1907 | Violin | Bach, Lalo, Moor | Emanuel Moor’s 2nd concerto, Bach E major, Lalo, S. E. | Beethovensaal |
Emile Sauret | 10/26/1907 | Violin | Saint-Saëns, Dvorak, Ernst | 3 concertos, Mozart orch. has been in America, is as good as ever | Mozartsaal |
Brigitta Thielemann | 10/26/1907 | Voice | Singakademie | ||
Amalie Waibel | 10/26/1907 | Voice | Alto | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal | |
Holländische Trio | 10/27/1907 | Chamber | Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Rameau | Elena Gerhardt, voice | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal |
Trio group | 10/27/1907 | Chamber | Brahms | Schnirlin, Eisenberger, Becker, Marie Götze, op. 25 | Mozartsaal |
Pop | 10/27/1907 | Pop | Philharmonie | ||
Vivien Chartres | 10/27/1907 | Violin | 2nd | Saal Bechstein | |
Johannes Messchaert | 10/28/1907 | Voice | Popular concert | Mozartsaal | |
II. Philharmonic | 10/28/1907 | Orch | Volkmann, Hubay | Franz von Vecsey, premiere of Hubay concerto | Philharmonie |
Bertha von Türckheim | 10/28/1907 | Voice | Mary Dickinson violin (made a good impression) and Marie Hoffmann piano | Saal Bechstein | |
"Modernen Liederabend" | 10/28/1907 | Voice | Strauss, Weingartner | Hermann Gura; works by Streicher | Beethovensaal |
Dessau Quartet | 10/29/1907 | Chamber | Taneiev, Berger, Mozart | with Wilhelm Berger, playing his piano quintet op. 95 (1st time ) Taneiev, Q d minor op. 7 (1st time) | Singakademie |
Klingler Quartet | 10/29/1907 | Chamber | Beethoven,Mozart, Haydn | op.74 | Saal Bechstein |
Sergei Kussewitzky | 10/29/1907 | Chamber | with Medtner; Henri Casadesus on viola d’amore | Beethovensaal | |
Mary Münchhoff | 10/29/1907 | Mixed | with Oscar Schubert, clarinet and Ed. Behm, piano | Mozartsaal | |
August Schmid-Lindner, piano | 10/29/1907 | Orch | Dukas, Delius | Max Schillings conducts Mozart Orchestra; Delius concerto; Felix von Roth concerto | Blüthner Saal |
Louise Clemens | 10/29/1907 | Piano | Hochschule | ||
Pop | 10/29/1907 | Pop | Philharmonie | ||
Court Gross | 10/29/1907 | Violin | Oberlichtsaal | Philharmonie | |
Marie Blanck-Peters | 10/29/1907 | Voice | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal | ||
Bohemian Quartet | 10/30/1907 | Chamber | Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak | Schubert d minor; Beethoven op. 133, Dvorak C major | Beethovensaal |
Ellen Sarsen | 10/30/1907 | Mixed | voice, with Heinrich Grünfeld, cello | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal | |
Gottfried Galston | 10/30/1907 | Piano | Beethoven | 2nd of 5: Op. 101, 106, 109, 110, 111 | Singakademie |
Conrad Ansorge | 10/30/1907 | Piano | Brahms, Beethoven, Liszt, Schubert | Brahms #1, Emperor concerto Liszt #2, Schubert’s Wandererphantasie orch. Liszt | Mozartsaal |
Alice Ripper | 10/30/1907 | Piano | Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt | Algernon Ashton | Blüthner Saal |
Pop | 10/30/1907 | Pop | Philharmonie | ||
Elsa Miehling | 10/30/1907 | Voice | Schubert, Brahms, Wolf | Dvorak, Schumann | Choralion Saal |
Max Vogrich | 10/31/1907 | Composition | excerpt from his opera “Der Buddha” | Played his own piano concerto; Die Kamadewane, Indian legend (orch) | Philharmonie |
Vivien Chartres, Miecio Horzsowski | 10/31/1907 | Mixed | Philharmonie | ||
Germaine Schnitzer | 10/31/1907 | Piano | 2nd | Mozartsaal | |
Harold Bauer | 10/31/1907 | Piano | Saint-Saëns, Franck, Debussy | Debussy, his arrangement of Franck piece | Saal Bechstein |
Emil Sauer | 10/31/1907 | Piano | Schumann, Liszt, Chopin | 2nd; Blue Danube Schulz-Evler | Beethovensaal |
Gertrud Seiffert | 10/31/1907 | Voice | Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf | Rachmaninow, Weingartner | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal |
Singakademie Joachim memorial | Mixed | Brahms | Georg Schumann speech, Q members with Op. 135 slow mvt. Deutsches Requiem w/phil orch | Singakademie | |
Hermann Dies | Mixed | Alice Rohde voice, no to both |
Your research into this topic is becoming well-nigh encyclopedic
The concert of melodramas and recitations on the third of October in the Architektenhaus interests me. Which melodramas were performed? Were they all by D’Albert?
That genre seems entirely neglected now, yet singers whose careers have aged out might consider reviving this genre. Especially academic voice professors in America who must perform to receive positive annual evaluations. Were there many such performances in 1907?
Yes! Of particular interest is the actor/musician Ludwig Wüllner. Wüllner in Schumann’s Manfred (that includes melodrama) in 1903 was described as coming close to what Wagner called Sprechgesang (Klavier-Lehrer 1903, p.103). I wonder if Schoenberg heard him perform. There are recordings of him.
wow, what a music-filled world! It’s amazing how much has changed in a century. I imagine there must have been some serious fear of missing out for music-lovers.