Articles and announcements on new music schools in the city

Carl Anschutz’s Music Institute, Steck’s Music Hall, 141 E. 8^th St., between Broadway and 4^th Ave., begins courses Sept. 17.

Advertisement for “The National Conservatory of Music” (“Das National Conservatorium der Musik”), located at No. 244 E. 13^th St.  Tuition: $10.  Professors: George F. Bristow (music director), Herrn Hoffman, Boetger, Wolf, S[illeg.], Weingarten, Canips, Ricther, Eden Tissington, Fraulein Loder, and William Vincent Wallace.  The second annual concert of the school will take place in September.

“Carl Anschutz in a New Field.—Mr. Anschutz, weary of travelling with perapetetic [sic] opera troupes, as returned to the City of his adoption, and announces that he has opened a Music Institute, which he says he hopes to make a standard school of all lovers of the art. In addition to his personal attention, Mr. Anschutz provides the services of Mme. Johannsen, Max Braun, Joseph Noll, and other well-known and popular artists.”

Advertisement for the Anschutz Music Institute.

“These institutions are multiplying fast, too fast, we fear, for the demand of instruction. Those at present in existence have a claim upon our respect because of the excellent names which are attached to the several circulars.

The National Conservatory for Musical Instruction is now in the third year of its existence. The Musical Director, Mr. G. F. Bristow, is known as one of the first musicians of the country, intellectually and executively, and his long and varied experience in class instruction, together with his intimate knowledge of every branch of the musical art, mark him out as admirably fitted to sustain the position of direction of such an institution. He has associated with himself some of the first teachers in the country. The published list comprises the following names: George F. Bristow, Theory and Composition; Piano—Mme. Wm. Vincent Wallace, Ed. Hoffman; Theo. Boettger, Wm. Wolf, C. A. de Szigethy and G. Weingarten; Vocal Music—Mme. Ed. Loder and Signor Elidora Camps; Violin and Violoncello—Charles Richter; Flute—F. Eben and H. Tissington. For other branches, the best teachers will be furnished. The prestige of Mr. Bristow’s name, together with those of his associates, brought to the National Conservatory over 200 pupils on the commencement of term, Sept. 3. 

Edward Mollenhauer’s Conservatory, though but recently established, has already the confidence of the public. Mr. Mollenhauer has had much experience in the business, and has associated with himself the following excellent and experienced teachers: Piano, Messrs. Lejeal, Wallenstein, Heydmann, Schrimpf, Mollenhauer, Groschel and A. Davis; Violin and Violincello, Messrs. Ed. Mollenhauer, Henry Mollenhauer and Schrimpf; Cornet, Louis Schrieber; Vocal Music, Messrs. Mollenhauer, Gianetti and Foeppel; Theory, Mr. Ch. H. Foeppel. Mr. Mollenhauer will give semi-monthly concerts of classical music, with the assistance of his professors and his advanced pupils, to which all the pupils of his Conservatory will be entitled to free admission. This is both a popular and an instructive feature. The first concert of the series takes place this evening at Irving Hall.

The Anschutz Musical Institute is the third on the list, commencing its labors on Monday next, Sept. 17. The well-earned musical reputation of Mr. Carl Anschutz is too widely known to need any further indorsement [sic]. He is a thoroughly capable man, and is full of energy and enterprise. The teachers secured by Mr. Anschutz are very excellent, as the following list will prove: Vocal, Mme. Bertha Johannsen, Herr Carl Anschutz and Signor Marco Dusehuits; Italian language, Signor Giorgio Keck; Piano, Messrs. A. Davis, A. Buechel, Max Brown, F. Kalliwoda, W. Grossworth and A. Neuendorf; Organ, Messrs. Max Brown and A. Davis; Theory of Music and Composition, Herr Carl Anschutz, A. Beuchel and Max Brown; Violin, Mr. Joseph Noll.

These three institutions, one American and two German, will afford a trustworthy means of education for hundreds of our children, and will correct the evil of cheap and bad teaching which has hitherto abounded in this city, and in so far the art of music will be greatly benefitted. We shall watch the working of these institutions, for they will wield too much influence, for good or for evil, to be left without supervision, in other than a musical sense.”

“We have alluded to the mushroom upspringing of Musical Conservatories in Gotham. Besides that of the Mollenhauers, there is one called by the big title of National Conservatory, under the management of Mr. E. G. Locke, the musical director being Mr. George F. Bristow, who teaches theory and composition, while Piano instruction employs the talents of Edw. Hoffmann, Theo. Boettger, Wm. Wolf, C.A. de Szigethy, G. Weingarten, and Mme. Wm. Vincent Wallace; vocal teachers, Sig. Elidora Camps and Mme. E. Loder; others for violin, flute, &c., &c. Then, too, Carl Anschütz has organized an ‘Anschütz Musical Institute;’ teachers as follows: Theory and Composition: Messrs. Anschütz, Buechel and Max Braun; Piano: Davis, Buechel, Braun, Kalliwoda, Grosswirth and Neuendorf; Organ: Max Braun and A. Davis; Violin: Joseph Noll; Vocal: Mme. Johannsen, Carl Anschütz and Sig. Marco Duschuitz; Italian Language: Sig. Giorgio Keck. Mr. Schrimpf, formerly of Boston, is enrolled in the Mollenhauer teaching corps. We trust all these Conservatorio conservatives will not be like the political conservatives, only anxious to conserve what is diseased and bad in the body politic, but that, like true conservatives, i.e. radicals, they will go to the root of the matter and try to conserve and preserve what is good and true in Art, preserve the body itself and the soul with it.”