Highlights of the month
Gustav Mahler conducted his Third Symphony on a Philharmonic subscription concert on the 14th. Felix Weingartner conducted the Berlin premiere of the Sibelius First Symphony, but the reviews were tepid. There was a “Big Russian Concert” to mark Balakirev’s 70th birthday.
Eugen d’Albert began his “History of Piano Literature” series with three recitals: 1) before Beethoven; 2) Beethoven, 3) Schubert and Schumann. The Beethoven performance had seven sonatas on it. If that wasn’t enough, the following evening one could have heard another all-Beethoven concert with Frederic Lamond. Carl Flesch performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto on a Philharmonic subscription concert. While he would make his mark in Berlin the following year with a series of historical recitals, this performance got extremely good reviews.
I would have liked to hear the concert on the 23rd, in which Artur Schnabel and Paul Goldschmidt played the Schubert F minor Piano Duo. The 24-year-old Goldschmidt played several other concerts this year. More about him later! Schnabel also played Beethoven’s Op. 110 Sonata. One could have compared it to Reisenauer’s interpretation on the 5th and to Leo Kestenberg’s on the 15th.
In this month there were seven different Quartet groups besides the Joachim Quartet performing: the Bohemian, Waldemar Meyer, Sevčík, Dessau, Petersburger, Halir, and Klingler Quartets.
Ferruccio Busoni conducted a concert and played a recital 
Ignaz Friedman made his Berlin debut 
The Ševčik Quartet played Glière Op. 2 
Ludwig Wüllner gave a Lieder Abend 
Frederic Lamond played an all-Beethoven recital 
Richard Burmeister gave a Liszt recital 
Emil Sauer played his own Piano Concerto 
Erika Wedekind sang on an “elite” concert 
Alfred Reisenauer ‘puts most of his rivals in the shade’ 
Alfred Wittenberg played 3 violin concertos 
The Petersburg Quartet played Borodin Quartet no. 2 
Leopold Godowsky played Schumann, Chopin and Weber 
The Bohemian String Quartet played the Schubert Quintet 
The Dessau Quartet played Sinding’s Quartet Op. 70 
Fritz Kreisler played Bach 
Waldemar Meyer Quartet had a Max Reger Abend
The table below lists all the concerts from January, with what I could find of the program and miscellaneous remarks by various critics. It is searchable and sortable.
January 1907.csv
| Title | Date | Genre | Program | Summary | Location |
| Tina Lerner | 1/07 | Piano | Chopin | from Odessa, Godowsky student, 16 yrs old | |
| Pablo de Sarasate | 1/07 | Violin | Goldmark, Schumann | with pianist Carlos Sobrino | |
| Georg Bloch's Gesangverein | 1/07 | Choral | |||
| Elsie Hall | 1/07 | Piano | significant talent (Die Musik) | ||
| Severin Eisenberger | 01/02/1907 | Piano | Beethovensaal | ||
| Elsa u. George A. Walter | 01/02/1907 | Voice, Piano | Schubert | Singakademie | |
| Hermann Klum | 01/02/1907 | Piano | Beethoven Op. 109 | Klum’s C minor sonata | Saal Bechstein |
| J. Mitnitzsky | 01/03/1907 | Violin | Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Saint-Saens | Saal Bechstein | |
| Bohemian Quartet | 01/03/1907 | Chamber | Kaun, Sinding | Sinding piano quintet Hugo Kaun op. 41 w/Teresa Carreno | Beethovensaal |
| Emerich Stefaniai | 01/03/1907 | Piano | Dohnányi | w/ Dohnányi conducting his piano concerto | Singakademie |
| Willy Burmester | 01/03/1907 | Violin | Mix of serious, light, virtuosic pieces | popular prices with Willy Klasen | Philharmonie |
| Dr. Hermann Brause | 01/04/1907 | Voice | Brahms, Strauss, Loewe | ||
| Sibelius violin concerto | 01/04/1907 | Violin | Max Lewinger violin, Dresden concertmaster | ||
| Eugen d’Albert | 01/04/1907 | Piano | history of piano lit I | Philharmonie | |
| Berta Bloch-Jahr | 01/04/1907 | Voice | Beethovensaal | ||
| Alfred Reisenauer | 01/05/1907 | Piano | Beethoven, Op. 110, Schumann, Chopin | 3rd concert | Saal Bechstein |
| Gwendolyn Toms | 01/05/1907 | Piano | Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin | With phil orch: Brahms B-flat, Beethoven G, Chopin F | Beethovensaal |
| Bruno Hinze-Reinhold | 01/05/1907 | Piano | Singakademie | ||
| Russian Trio | 01/05/1907 | Chamber | Robert Hermann’s piano quartet op. 9 | Mozartsaal | |
| Joan Manén | 01/06/1907 | Voice | Populäres Konzert with Augusta Zuckermann, piano | Beethovensaal | |
| Benefit concert | 01/06/1907 | Mixed | Beethoven, 5th Symphony | Austellungshalle am Zoo;Steinbach; Felix Schmidt;Tilly Koenen; phil orch, Lehrer Gesangverein | Zoo |
| Tovey with Joachim and Hausmann | 01/06/1907 | Chamber | Schumann, Brahms | G minor Trio and B major Trio; Tovey’s Trio with English Horn; “first of 3 concerts” (Courier) | Singakademie |
| Ilse Delius | 01/06/1907 | Voice | Saal Bechstein | ||
| Margarethe Freund | 01/07/1907 | Voice | Saal Bechstein | ||
| Ludwig Erk-Feier | 01/07/1907 | Choral | 300 voice childrens choir | Philharmonie | |
| Richard Burmeister | 01/07/1907 | Piano | Liszt | Singakademie | |
| Alexander Sebald | 01/07/1907 | Violin | Ertel Violin a movement sonata for violin alone in g minor op. 17 With da Motta, Franck sonata | Beethovensaal | |
| Max Fiedler, Emil Sauer | 01/07/1907 | Orch | Beethoven | Sauer’s own concerto no. 2 in c minor, B5th | Mozartsaal |
| Fanny Davies | 01/08/1907 | Piano | Brahms, Schumann, Reger, Liszt | with tenor Gervase Elwes | Saal Bechstein |
| Maria Avani-Carreres | 01/08/1907 | Piano | Mozartsaal | ||
| Johannes Messchaert | 01/08/1907 | Voice | Schubert, Schumann,Brahms | new: K. Weigl; Bos is the best | Beethovensaal |
| Waldemar Meyer Quartet Reger | 01/08/1907 | Chamber | Reger | Max Reger Abend with Reger playing, Anna Erler-Schnaudt voice | Singakademie |
| Vilma Niemeier | 01/09/1907 | Piano | Chopin, Tchaikovsky | mozart orch., Chopin Tchaik. | Singakademie |
| Sevcik Quartet | 01/09/1907 | Chamber | Gliere op. 2, Mozart, Dvorak | ||
| Fritz Kreisler | 01/09/1907 | Violin | Bach; Vieuxtemps, Wienawski | bach E minor 3rd/last concert | Beethovensaal |
| Joachim Quartet | 01/10/1907 | Chamber | Beethoven | op .135, op. 59 #3, op. 18 #5 | Singakademie |
| Ignaz Friedman | 01/10/1907 | Piano | Chopin, Tchaikovsky | Phil. Orch.Prize-winning concerto by H. Melcer | Beethovensaal |
| Nanny Merzenich | 01/10/1907 | Voice | Reger, Strauss, Grieg | Taubert | Saal Bechstein |
| VI. Königliche Kapelle Weingartner | 01/10/1907 | Orch | Sibelius, 1st Symphony | also Beethoven 5, Ertel, Pompeji | Opernhaus |
| Alfred Wittenberg | 01/10/1907 | Violin | Bach, Mozart | concertos Bach a minor, Mozart a major, Wieniawski mozartsaal orch. | |
| Ida Ekman | 01/11/1907 | Voice | Sibelius | Saal Bechstein | |
| Busoni orchestral concert | 01/11/1907 | Orch | Kaun, Liszt | Also works by Busoni, Hermann Behr, Johan Wegemar | Beethovensaal |
| Bernhard Stavenhagen, Felix Berber | 01/11/1907 | Violin | Brahms | 3 violin sonatas | Singakademie |
| Lilli Lehmann | 01/11/1907 | Voice | Robert Franz Abend | ||
| Fund Raiser for Grabdenkmal for Reimann | 01/11/1907 | Mixed | Klingler, Joachim, Emmy Destinn, H. Grünfeld, R. Rössler | ||
| Zajic and Grünfeld with Mr. and Mrs. Schnabel | 01/12/1907 | Chamber | Singakademie | ||
| Komtesse Helene Morsztyn | 01/12/1907 | Piano | Beethoven No. 4, Mendelssohn No. 1 | She is a Sauer student, new Karbach, d minor concerto: unbearable | Beethovensaal |
| Donald Francis Tovey | 01/12/1907 | Piano | Beethoven, Brahms, Bach | Diabelli variations, Bach partita d major, Brahms pieces | Hochschule |
| Marianne Heinemann | 01/12/1907 | Piano | Saal Bechstein | ||
| Ilse Delius | 01/13/1907 | Voice | Postponed | Saal Bechstein | |
| Mahler conducting Mahler 3rd | 01/14/1907 | Orch | Mahler | Philharmonic 6th subscription concert | Philharmonie |
| Ellen Sarsen, voice Marguerite Valentine King, piano | 01/14/1907 | Mixed | Beethovensaal | ||
| Ludwig Dosse | 01/14/1907 | Voice | Saal Bechstein | ||
| Elisabeth Ohlhoff soprano Heinz Beyer cello | 01/14/1907 | Chamber | Singakademie | ||
| Dessau Quartet | 01/15/1907 | Chamber | Sinding, Beethoven, Brahms | with Könecke, Espenhahn, Heinrich Lutter, E. and O. Urack Sinding op. 70; Bethoven op. 97; Brahms op. 18 | Singakademie |
| Ignatz Waghalter | 01/15/1907 | Composition | Philharmonie | ||
| Ernst von Dohnányi | 01/15/1907 | Piano | Beethoven, Dohnányi, Chopin | ||
| Leo Kestenberg | 01/15/1907 | Piano | Op. 110, Bach-Busoni, Alkan, Franck | Saal Bechstein | |
| Helene Passow-Vogt | 01/15/1907 | Mixed | Schubert, Brahms, Wolf | Carlotta Stubenrauch, violin | Beethovensaal |
| Paul Elgers | 01/16/1907 | Violin | Sinding serenade, Franck Sonata | with Stefaniai | Saal Bechstein |
| Halir Schumann Dechert Trio | 01/16/1907 | Chamber | Weingartner, Taubert | Weingartner violin sonata op. 42 no 2, Taubert Suite for Strings | Singakademie |
| Eugenie Stoltz, cello | 01/16/1907 | Chamber | Dohnányi | Dohnányi cello sonata with composer at piano | Hochschule |
| Alexander Heinemann | 01/16/1907 | Voice | Schubert, Brahms, Kaun, Strauss | Usually in glorious voice, has a cold | |
| Valborg Svardström | 01/17/1907 | Voice | Wolf, Strauss | horrible (Die Musik) | Saal Bechstein |
| Clotilde Kleeberg | 01/17/1907 | Piano | Schubert, Chopin, Weber, Mozart | Mozartsaal | |
| Robert Maitland | 01/17/1907 | Voice | Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt | Künstlerhaus; Ausverkauft! Dr. Rumchysky piano; Purcell, Handel | |
| Clara Höhne | 01/17/1907 | Voice | no (Die Musik); with Ludwig Feinland, cello | Singakademie | |
| Eugen d’Albert | 01/17/1907 | Piano | Beethoven Op. 109, Op. 111 | Op 31 #3 Op. 53 Op. 57 Op. 90 Op. 109 Op. 110 op. 111 | Philharmonie |
| E.N. von Reznicek | 01/17/1907 | Composition | Haydn Farewell Symphony M. Violon, piano; EE Taubert’s Suite for Strings in D | Bernhard Dessau, Conductor | Beethovensaal |
| Frederic Lamond | 01/18/1907 | Piano | Beethoven, Op. 109 | Op. 77, op. 109, op. 31 no 2, op. 28, op. 119, op. 76, op. 81 | Singakademie |
| Petersburger Quartet | 01/18/1907 | Chamber | Beethoven, Saint-Saens | Borodin (“famos”), Saint-Saens, Beethoven didn’t arouse any enthusiasm for S-S | Beethovensaal |
| James and Frieda Kwast—Reger | 01/18/1907 | Piano | Reger | Passacaglia and Fugue for 2 pianos | Saal Bechstein |
| Hedwig Kirsch | 01/19/1907 | Piano | Beethoven | Phil. Orch. C minor Beethoven Götz concerto B-flat; has received recognition for her great taste, technique | Beethovensaal |
| Hans Winderstein with his orchestra from Leipzig | 01/19/1907 | Orch | Joan Manèn violin; Augusta Zuckermann piano | Singakademie | |
| Fund raiser for the national Denkmal | 01/19/1907 | Mixed | Joachim, Klingler, Dohnányi, Frau Götze | ||
| Max Menge | 01/19/1907 | Violin | He is new and young; Hermann Lafont, piano | Saal Bechstein | |
| Otto Lamborg | 01/20/1907 | Piano | Comic Pianist | Saal Bechstein | |
| Halir Quartet | 01/20/1907 | Chamber | Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart | Beethovensaal | |
| Sigfrid Karg-Elert | 01/20/1907 | Composition | he played his own works, harmonium; interesting but no trace of “music” there | ||
| Monster Concert at Zoo | 01/21/1907 | Mixed | Zoo | ||
| Richard Koennecke | 01/21/1907 | Voice | Beethovensaal | ||
| Philharmonisches Chor | 01/21/1907 | Choral | Brahms | Schicksalslied, Iwan Knorr, Bruch; Eva Leßmann, Clara Erler soloists | Philharmonie |
| Julia Hochstädtler | 01/21/1907 | Voice | Saal Bechstein | ||
| Charlotte Wolter | 01/21/1907 | Voice | no (Die Musik) | Singakademie | |
| Alexander Goldenweiser | 01/22/1907 | Piano | Saal Bechstein | ||
| Helene Elsner-Guttentag | 01/22/1907 | Voice | 2nd concert | Singakademie | |
| Ludwig Wüllner | 01/22/1907 | Voice | Beethovensaal | ||
| Dora Moran | 01/23/1907 | Voice | Singakademie | ||
| Hamburg Frauen Quartett | 01/23/1907 | Vocal Group | Bortkiewicz at the piano | Saal Bechstein | |
| Mr. and Mrs. Schnabel | 01/23/1907 | Chamber | Beethoven, Schubert | Beethoven Op. 110; Schubert f minor fantasie with Paul Goldschmidt Lieder Erich J. Wolff (MS) | Beethovensaal |
| Alfred Ackermann | 01/23/1907 | Piano | Mozartsaal | ||
| Hilda Stromenger, violin | 01/24/1907 | Mixed | with Marie Tauszky piano, her debut | Saal Bechstein | |
| Elisabeth Müller-Ostens | 01/20/1907 | Voice | “Rococo Abend” | ||
| Busoni | 01/24/1907 | Piano | Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt | Handel and Paganini variations; played too fast; chopin preludes Schumann papillons and abegg variations, Liszt’s Grand Galop Chromatique | |
| Elite Concert in the Mozart Saal 4 pm | 01/24/1907 | Mixed | These elite concerts are structured around the artist rather than the music (Signale) | Mozartsaal | |
| Elite Concert in the Philharmonie 8 pm | 01/24/1907 | Mixed | Erika Wedekind (Frank’s sister) Alfred Reisenauer Lehrer-Gesang Verein | Philharmonie | |
| Michel de Sicard | 01/24/1907 | Violin | Bach, Saint-Saens | with phil orch Mendelssohn | Singakademie |
| Helene Staegemann | 01/24/1907 | Voice | Mozartsaal | ||
| Hedwig Stadtfeld | 01/25/1907 | Voice | Mozartsaal | ||
| Delly Friedland | 01/25/1907 | Voice | Chausson, Duparc, Faure, Franck, Weingartner, Strauss | tasteful | Beethovensaal |
| Gisela Springer | 01/25/1907 | Piano | Mozart g major, Saint Saens G minor, Chopin f minor | not that bad (Die Musik) she is temperamental and has made progress (Signale) with Phil Orch | Singakademie |
| Hans B. Hasse | 01/25/1907 | Violin | Sinding, Saint-Saens | with Schmalstick piano; young and could be a real virtuoso but not yet (Signale) Schillings | Saal Bechstein |
| Piano Trio with Joachim for Wirth | 01/25/1907 | Chamber | Schumann, Bach, Beethoven | D minor Trio Schumann; Sonata in G major for piano and viola da gamba g major Beethoven violin sonata | |
| Rudolf Zwintscher | 01/26/1907 | Mixed | Beethoven op. 57, Liszt B minor Sonata | Reinhold von Wahrlich voice | Mozartsaal |
| Elise Wetzel | 01/26/1907 | Voice | not good; Hermann Viebig piano | Saal Bechstein | |
| Elena Gerhardt | 01/26/1907 | Voice | Brahms, Strauss, Wolf | with Nikisch 2nd concert | Beethovensaal |
| Emilio Puyans, flute | 01/26/1907 | Chamber | no (Die Musik) | Singakademie | |
| concert in the new Exhibition hall of the Zoo Garten | 01/26/1907 | Mixed | Zoo | ||
| Robert Maitland | 01/27/1907 | Voice | could go on stage; with Hertha Dehmlow | Beethovensaal | |
| Holländisches Trio | 01/27/1907 | Chamber | Brahms | Ludwig Wüllner; Trio c minor, 4 ernste Gesänge | Singakademie |
| Willy Lang | 01/28/1907 | Violin | 2nd concert | Saal Bechstein | |
| Grossen Russischen Konzert | 01/28/1907 | Orch | S. Liapounow Symphony in b minor op 12; in honor of Balakirev 70th birthday Soloist Ricard Vines from Paris (piano) | Mozartsaal | |
| Philharmonic with Flesch | 01/28/1907 | Violin | Beethoven | Flesch played Beethoven violin concerto | Philharmonie |
| Flora Scherres-Friedenthal | 01/29/1907 | Piano | Singakademie | ||
| Bohemian Quartet | 01/29/1907 | Chamber | Beethoven, Schubert, V. Novak op. 35 | IV and last concert, J. Burian on cello from Prague Schubert Quintet, op. 127; back on top of their form | Beethovensaal |
| James Rothstein | 01/29/1907 | Composition | also conductor, no to both (Die Musik); known for his graceful lieder (Signale) | Mozartsaal | |
| The Folk Song Quartet | 01/29/1907 | Vocal Group | English, Elsie Hall piano; intonation problems | Hochschule | |
| Svärdström sisters from Stockholm | 01/29/1907 | Vocal Group | “Delightful” (DIe Musik) | Saal Bechstein | |
| Leopold Godowsky | 01/30/1907 | Piano | Schumann | III. Concert: Carnaval | Beethovensaal |
| Joseph Weiss | 01/30/1907 | Piano | Brahms | his own arrangements Brahms Paganini variations | Singakademie |
| Hermine Ricke, piano and Irene Daland, voice | 01/30/1907 | Chamber | Romischer Hof | ||
| Klingler Quartet | 01/30/1907 | Chamber | Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann | Beethoven op 127; Brahms op 51 #2; Schumann F major | Saal Bechstein |
| Joachim Quartet | 01/31/1907 | Chamber | Schubert Quintet, Beethoven | haydn op. 64 #4 beethoven op. 18 #6 | Singakademie |
| Max Modern and A. Schlesinger | 01/31/1907 | Violin | Mozart | Mozart sinfonia concertante Egon Pütz piano | |
| Else von Grave-Jonás | 01/31/1907 | Piano | Liszt, Tchaikovsky | had a really good night (Die Musik) | |
| Eugen d'Albert | 01/31/1907 | Piano | Schumann, Schubert | Schumann Fantasy and Carnaval Schubert Fantasy Sonata G major Mendelssohn variation sérieuses Weber sonata in A-flat | Philharmonie |
| Gertrud Bischoff | 01/31/1907 | Voice | volkslieder Abend | And Gerhard Fischer baritone | Saal Bechstein |
