Philharmonic Society of New York Public Rehearsal: 7th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 May 2021

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Jan 1869, Evening

Program Details

Leonora overture confirmed in New York Philharmonic digital achives website.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Philharmonic Society of New York
2)
Symphony, D. 759, B minor
aka Unfinished symphony; Symphony, no. 8, B minor
Composer(s): Schubert
3)
Fidelio, (1806), overture
aka Leonore overture, no. 3; Leonora overture, no. 3
Composer(s): Beethoven
4)
Symphony, no. 5, op. 107, D major
aka Reformation
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Citations

1)
: 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., 22 January 1869.

“Philharmonic Rehearsal at A. of M. Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation Symphony.’ Like it better than I did last winter. The lovely melodic kindly scherzo might be Haydn’s. But any musical work—or rather any merely orchestral work—committed by its title to the description of the embodiment in music of some particular event or period or visible phenomenon must be a failure.”