Soirée of Chamber Music: 4th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway's Rooms

Price: $1.50

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 February 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Mar 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: George Matzka; Frederick Bergner; William C. [baritone] Baird; Leopold Damrosch; Dionys Prückner; Mr. [violinist] Schuessel

2)

Trio, piano, strings, op. 1, no. 2, G major

Composer(s): Beethoven

3)

Elegy, violin, orchestra, op. 10, C minor

aka Elegie

Composer(s): Ernst

Participants: Leopold Damrosch

4)

Quartet, strings, D. 810, D minor

aka Death and the maiden; Quartet, strings, no. 14, D minor ; Tod und das Mädchen

Composer(s): Schubert

5)

"My song is like the evening air"

Composer(s): Ritter

Participants: William C. [baritone] Baird

6)

"Warrior's death, The"

Composer(s): Ritter

Participants: William C. [baritone] Baird

7)

Spinnerlied aus dem Fliegende Holländer

aka Spinning song from Wagner’s Flying Dutchman; Spinning chorus from Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer

Composer(s): Liszt

Participants: Dionys Prückner

8)

"Erlkönig," [arr. Liszt]

aka Erlkonig

Composer(s): Schubert

Participants: Dionys Prückner

9)

"Jésus de Nazareth"

aka Jesus de Nazareth

Composer(s): Gounod

Participants: William C. [baritone] Baird

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 March 1872, 8.

2)

Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 04 March 1872, 5.

Includes principal selections performed.

3)

Review: Dwight's Journal of Music, 23 March 1872, 205.

“Messrs. Damrosch and Pruckner gave their fourth soirée at Steinway’s Rooms on Monday evening, March 4, with the following programme [see above].

‘Mignon’ claimed my attention that evening, but I remained long enough to hear the Beethoven Trio, and felt richly repaid for so doing. The three players entered well into the spirit of the work; and that they understand each other thoroughly was evidently [sic]—particularly in the Largo, where the piano, violin and ‘cello hold strange converse like three mysterious spirits. Here the instruments were nicely balanced and the performance of this passage, with the charming Scherzo which follows, and indeed of the whole Trio, was very satisfactory.”