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Title: Programme
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Subjects: Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert programs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Boston Symphony Orchestra
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Symphony Orchestra

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certos. Schneider,it seems, played with soul as well as force, and the orchestraaccompanied remarkably, for it respected and admired composer,composition and pianist. The first performance with which Beethoven was concerned wasat Vienna on February 12, 1812, when Karl Czerny (1791-1857)was the pianist. The occasion was a singular sort of entertain-ment. Theodor Korner, who had been a looker-on in Vienna onlyfor a short time, wrote home on February 15: Wednesday there * Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, organist, pianist, composer, teacher(1786-1853). He was busy as organist, pianist, and conductor at Leipsic from 1807till 1821, when he settled at Dessau, where he died. A. SCHMIDT & SON Established 1869IMPORTERS OF SILVER AND SHEFFIELD PLATEFINE PORCELAINS FINE AND EXCLUSIVE CHRISTMAS AND WEDDINGGIFTS OUR SPECIALTY NEWPORT^Ri ^^^ BOYLSTON STREET MAGNOLIA. MASS. Directly opposite the Hotel Copley Plaza WASHINGTON. D.C. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Telephone:PASADENA, CAL. Back Bay 2931
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took place for the benefit of the Charitable Society of Noble Ladies*a concert and a representation of three pictures after Raphael,Poussin, and Troyes, as Goethe describes them in his ElectiveAffinities. A new concerto by Beethoven for the pianoforte didnot succeed, Castellis Thalia gave as the reason of this failurethe unwillingness of Beethoven, full of proud self-confidence, towrite for the crowd. He can be understood and appreciated onlyby the connoisseurs, and one cannot reckon on their being in amajority at such an afliair. Thayer moralizes on this statement.The trills of Miss Sessi f and Mr. Siboni % and Mayseders Varia-tions on the March from Aline § were appropriate to the occasion * The title of this society was Gesellschaft adelicher Frauen zur Beforderung desGuten und Niitzlichen. t There were four distinguished sisters by the name of Sessi. Marianne (1776-1847)was, perhaps, the most famous, and she was applauded in many cities, although theEarl of Mount Bdgcumbe heard h

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