MUSIC NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1146, 28 March 1912, Page 18

MUSIC NOTES.

(By

“G String.”)

The alleged Beethoven Symphony, which was discovered at Jena, is to be played in numerous G*erman cities. When given recently at Berlin the critics as a whole were doubtful as to whether it really was composed by Beethoven. It is said to be pretty and melodious, and■ its style is reminiscent of Mozart and Beethoven.

Mr Robert Parker is about to retire from the position of musical conductor of the Wellington Musical Union, a position which he has held

for many years past. The Union will tender Mr Parker a complimentar;y concert at which “ The Golden Legend” will be performed under his baton. It is likely that Mr Eric Waters, a gifted local musician, will succeed Mr Parker.

At the close of 1913 the copyright of Wagner’s works will expire. They will then, of course, be free to publishers and performers. Adolph Furstner, owner of the copyright of “Rienzi,” “The Flying Dutchman, and “Tannhauser,” has notified that he has reduced the price of the piano scores to three marks, and of small orchestral scores to eight marks each. By this reduction he hopes to get the cream of the trade by forestallling competition in the cheap

editions that will inevitably flood the market when the copyright expires. Despite the fact that many superior people nowadays decry the music of Mendelssohn, it is significant that his violin concerto has been played in Berlin more than a dozen times during the late season in that city. The fund which was recently opened by the friends and admirers of Mr Armes Beaumont, the veteran tenor vocalist, has been closed, and at a. meeting held at the Town Hall, Melbourne, a cheque for £483 5/5was handed to Mr Beaumont. Once again Mozart is in the ascendant in Germany. Several of his operas are to be performed at the Residenz Theatre curing August. A Brahms festival will be held at Wiesbaden from June 1 to 4, 1912. It will be under the direction of Fritz Steinbach, one of the most distinguished conductors in Germany.