Commemoration of the Second Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Death

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cooper Institute

Conductor(s):
Carl Anschütz

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 January 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Apr 1867

Program Details

No time given. Organized by the radical republican central committee.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Anschütz Frauenchor;  Arion Männergesangverein;  H. Kalliwoda;  John Paul [organ-comp.] Morgan;  Joseph Poznanski [piano]
2)
Sonata, piano, no. 12, op. 26, A-flat major. Marche funèbre sulla morte d’un eroe
aka funeral march
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Marche funèbre, unidentified
Composer(s): Chopin
4)
Requiem. K. 626, D minor, Lacrimosa
Composer(s): Mozart

Citations

1)
Review: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 20 April 1867, 585.

No mention of music. 

2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 April 1867, 4.

“…The commemoration of the martyrdom of Lincoln by a programme of music was a novel and in many respects the most appropriate, because the most impressive way of celebrating so sacred a fact. Beethoven’s and Chopin’s Funeral Marches and Mozart’s Lacrymosa honored the memory of the dead as great ideas and emotions can alone honor the noblest facts of history. More originality would not have improved it, and we shall not complain that a composition especially written for the occasion was not rehearsed. Nowhere else than in a community of Germans do we look for a celebration of this kind, in which art becomingly offers the tribute which the culture and intelligence of the people pay to the grandest facts of their career.”