Philharmonic Society of New York Public Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 August 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Feb 1868, 2:30 PM

Program Details

“Second public rehearsal for the fourth concert.”

Mozart’s symphony is listed in the citations as ‘No. 1 in G minor;” the New York Philharmonic archives database verifies that it is No. 40.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Philharmonic Society of New York
2)
Symphony, no. 40, K. 550, G minor
Composer(s): Mozart
3)
Lohengrin, Vorspiel
aka Overture to Lohengrin; Introduction to Lohengrin; Prelude to Lohengrin
Composer(s): Wagner
4)
Symphony, no. 4, op. 90, A major
aka Italian
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 February 1868, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 February 1868.

“Second public rehearsal for the fourth concert.”

3)
Announcement: New York Post, 28 February 1868.
4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 28 February 1868, 5.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 28 February 1868, 5.
6)
: Strong, George Templeton. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of George Templeton Strong, 1863-1869: Musical Excerpts from the MSs, transcribed by Mary Simonson. ed. by Christopher Bruhn., 28 February 1868.

“Philharmonic Rehearsal 2 1/2 p.m. Mozart’s lovely symphony in G Minor, his finest I think after the ‘Jupiter.’ The tenderness and delicacy of its trio are inexpressible. One might easily write much bosh over it. There seems to me an undercurrent of melancholy throughout the whole work—felt ever in its brilliant opening and Finale. Then Wagner’s introduction to Lohengrin—which is certainly effective, clever, and queer—without much inspiration, and then Mendelssohn’s ‘Italy’ Symphony in A major. It impresses me as first-rate second-rate work—vastly above the Wagners and Schumanns, but differing generically from the creations of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.”