A GREAT MUSICIAN
THE LATE. MR. H. M. LUND
IMBUED WITH SOUND
TRADITIONS
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHEISTCHUECH, This Day. .Paying, a tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Herman. Maier Lund, the well-known musician, whose death was reported yesterday, Dr. J. C. Bradshaw, organist at Christchurch Cathedral, sa,id:—"The passing of Mr. Lund indeed seems to close an era of music in Christehurch. It is impossible to attempt to estimate the value' to. musical progress that has resulted from his long life in this country. That it has been of an uplifting and very far-reaching nature no one, can question. ' He was a disciple of the great school which, from the time of Bach to that of Brahms, practically dominated European music and , imbued it with sound, traditions. It was particularly fortunate for the musical destinies of a young country that he should have chosen his home here." • Born in Hamburg, Germany, in August, 1847, the late Mr. Lund finished his musical education under Madame Schumann. Before he was 20 years of age he was teaching music and writing criticisms for a Berlin newspaper. He was known to Brahms and Wagner and had often heard Lizst and Eubinstein play. Before his departure for New Zealand he visited England and won there the friendship of Charles Halle, the distinguished founder df the Halle Orchestra, Manchester. Mr. Lund arrived in New Zealand early in the seventies. He visited Auckland and "Wellington before coming to Christehurch. Although he found this city the most congenial, he was forced to leave it on.account of severe attacks of rheumatism, and he settled in Invercargill. In a short time, however, he returned to' Christehurch and began, the teaching of the piano and singing, which he continued to within a year of his death. It was Sir Julius yon Haast, Mr. Lund said, who persuaded him to remain in New Zealand. Mr. Lund found in Christehurch an active Harmonic Society and deep appreciation of music among the more cultured families of the day. He gave several piano recitals and played piano and violin music with Mr. P. M. Wallace. At different times he conducted for various societies in Invercargill and Christchureh, and was founder of the Canterbury Society of Professional Musicians, being its secretary from 1895 to 1901. In August, 1927,.0n his 80th birthday, the musical societies of ChristchuTch and many of his friends and former pupils' held a public gathering in- honour of Mr. Lund's 50 years of work. Early in the following year, and • again in 1930, he gave piano recitals.
Mr. Lund was musical critic of "The Press" for over 25 years.
Mr. N. Is. Mackintosh, manager for Australia and New Zealand q;£ the Sun Insurance Co., Ltd., arrived Sroni Sydney to-day by the Maunganui on a business trip,
A GREAT MUSICIAN
Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 57, 8 March 1932, Page 6
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