Mason-Thomas Chamber Music Soirée: 5th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Dodworth's Hall

Price: $1.50

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 February 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Apr 1866, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Quartet, strings, op. 10, no. 6; Dissonance quartet
Composer(s): Mozart

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 April 1866, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 16 April 1866, 6.
3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 18 April 1866.
4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 18 April 1866, 8.
5)
Review: Dwight's Journal of Music, 12 May 1866, 240.

     Incorrectly calls this concert the sixth in the series; no review of the actual performance. Gives program. “…Quartet in F, op. 135, Beethoven, (which Watson’s ‘American Art Journal’calls ‘a dreary unintelligible composition,’ giving ‘painful evidence of an unbalanced mind, ‘ &c., &c.) On the other hand, the Weekly Review says: ‘The last mentioned quartet was the last Beethoven wrote, and may be considered one of all the celebrated quartets of this composer, which is more easily understood and appreciated than the others.’ Thus do the critics, who shy stones at us some times, devour each other! As for their opinions, are they not equally ‘interesting and valuable’?”