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:
14 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Feb 1873, 2:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Philharmonic Society of New York
2)
Symphonie zu Dante's Divina commedia
aka Dante symphony
Composer(s): Liszt

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., 21 February 1873.

“Laid up with sick headache till 2 p.m. when I went to the Academy, for a private Philharmonic rehearsal. Took little by my motion. Went hoping for Haydn’s ‘Oxford Symphony,’ but the whole of the two hours was given up to Liszt’s cacophonic preposterous ‘Dante.’ Willed myself in a dentist’s chair by way of change, but in vain. I had to sit & suffer, for there was a meeting of the society to be presided over, & a meeting of the directors afterwards. Such a succession of harsh & doleful noises I never heard.”