Krolikowska’s First Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Irving Hall

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.50; $1 reserved

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 July 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Dec 1863, Evening

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified;  Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra];  Sherwood C. Campbell;  Pedro de Abella;  Eugénie de Lussan;  Louise Krolikowska
2)
Concerto, piano, no. 1, op. 25, G minor
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
3)
Works, piano. Selections
Composer(s): Chopin
4)
Works, selections
Composer(s): Prudent
5)
Sonata, violin, no. 9, op. 47, A minor. Selections
aka Kreutzer sonata
Composer(s): Beethoven
Participants:  Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra];  Louise Krolikowska

Citations

1)
Advertisement: Courrier des États-Unis, 28 November 1863.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 December 1863.

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 December 1863, 7.
“Krolikowska, pianist, respectfully announces her first grand concert.”
4)
Announcement: Courrier des États-Unis, 03 December 1863.
Krolikowska’s concert is well publicized in the Courrier, where instrumental concerts are rarely advertised.
5)
Review: Musical Review and World, 19 December 1863, 303.
“We have no doubt that this young lady can play these pieces tolerably well when she is in her own room, but she has by no means the necessary technical abilities as well as other requisites to perform them in public.”