Grand Farewell Concert for Johanna Claussen

Event Information

Venue(s):
New-Yorker Stadt-Theater [45-47 Bowery- post-Sept 1864]

Price: $1.50 balcony box; $1 regular box; .75 reserved tickets for first tier and orchestra seats; .50 first tier; .30 second tier, orchestra; .15 balcony

Event Type:
Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Nov 1864, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Johanna Claussen, presenter and performer. (Her voice type is unknown.) Krüger’s “Ein schöner Traum” was written for Claussen.

Between the first and second pieces, Mr. Fritze recites an unidentified couplet.

After the Overture to Zampa, Mrs. Hohm gives a lecture entitled “Dellamotorischer.” This is followed by an unidentified couplet recited by Mr. Klein.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Freischutz overture
Composer(s): Weber
3)
aka Pesther; Pesther waltz
Composer(s): Lanner
Participants:  Johanna Claussen
4)
aka Good night; Thee only I love
Composer(s): Abt
Text Author: Seyffardt
Participants:  Auguste Steglich-Fuchs
5)
aka Midsummer night's dream, A; wedding march
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
6)
Composer(s): Krüger
Participants:  Johanna Claussen
8)
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Hérold
9)
aka Grand Potpourri
Composer(s): Gounod
11)
aka Oberlaendler; Oberländler
Composer(s): Gung'l

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 13 November 1864, 8.
 “Address of hostess Johanna Claussen to prospective audience: With the occasion of my upcoming journey to the West, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the honored audience for their goodwill, and with my invitation to attend this concert, I also add my request for you to hold on to your goodwill while I am gone until I return.”