Concert

Includes program.

“M. Jean Vogt, who made his first appearance [illegible] at a matinée concert, yesterday, in Steinway’s smaller hall, is well known as a composer of chamber music of considerable merit, and has written a great deal also for the piano, besides an oratorio on the subject of Lazarus. He is, or was, professor in the Conservatory of [illegible]. His music is characterized by remarkable grace, fluency, and sentiment, not specially rich in variety, but always melodious and delicate in sentiment. Among the selections produced yesterday were a trio, in which he was assisted by Dr. Damrosch and Mr. Bergner; a prelude and fugue, for two pianos, played with Mr. S. B. Mills, and four short piano pieces—a nocturne, prelude and fugue, barcarole, and grand étude. As an executant, Herr Vogt can hardly be judged from yesterday’s concert. A conception of the acoustic properties of the hall led him to play with too much force and too liberal [illegible] on the loud pedal. His style is free, and abounds in expression, and his technique is of course highly [finished?].”

“Mr. Jean Vogt gave a specimen of his talents as a composer at Steinway’s yesterday afternoon. A select (that is the polite term, we suppose, when the numbers are infinitessimal) audience listened to a number of Mr. Vogt’s works. Well, the works proved to be musicianly and actually possessed of some merit. No wonder, when such artists as Mills, Damrosch, Bergner, Goffrie, &c., took part in them. But Mr. Vogt is not a pianist worthy to compete with the coterie of local artists that now reign with undisputed power in this city. His works will be accepted as the results of a good musical education, and nothing further.”