Philharmonic Society of New York Private Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
Carl Bergmann

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Jan 1872, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Philharmonic Society of New York;  Pablo de Sarasate
2)
Symphony, no. 4, op. 120, D minor
Composer(s): Schumann
3)
Concerto, violin, no. 1, op. 26, G minor
Composer(s): Bruch
Participants:  Pablo de Sarasate
4)
Macbeth
Composer(s): Heinefetter

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., 12 January 1872.

“Private Philharmonic rehearsal 2 ½ p.m. at Academy of Music. Programme second rate. Schumann symphony not wholly vile however: more spontaneous & more suggestive than any orchestral production of his I ever heard. Violin concerto, Sarasate, composer unknown [Bruch]. Poor stuff, well played. Then ‘Heinefetter’s’ overture to Macbeth was labored at for an hour at least. It is very difficult, but not quite as difficult as it should be. (‘Would to heaven it were impossible!’ Dr. Sam. J.) It’s a composition of the Horrible & Awful School—all chords & discords & sensation. Herr Heinefetter must have sought inspiration from Tisiphone, Alecto, & Megaera [three Furies in Greek mythology], mistaking them for three of the nine muses. To the question, ‘Ouverture, que veux tu?’ he responds with the Fat Boy in Pickwick, ‘I wants to make your flesh creep.’ And he does not do it.”