Brief Dr. Bollers an Landgraf Fürstenberg:
Durch die Bemühungen des Bruckner-Consortiums seien Bruckners finanzielle Verhältnisse bis auf weiteres gesichert (*)
Die in Chicago erscheinende Zeitung The Inter Ocean Nr. 285 referiert auf S. 12 über einen Übersichtsartikel vom 31.12.1890:
" THE COMPOSER'S SITUATION.
The Musical Courier is moved to make the following comment in the light of the fading year: [...] The outlook now on this last day of the year of grace 1890 cannot be said to be a particularly promising one. Brahms still lives in Vienna and, despite Hanslick's dictum as to his new piano quintet [sic! vermutlich gemeint: Streichquintett op. 111], he is not doing really great work. The vice of composing without ideas, weaving metaphysical music puzzles, has seized him, and his work, while it may be beautifully objective, offers no genuine interest to the sympathetic listeners.
Brahms' op. 1, his C major piano sonata, with the "Deutschen Requiem" and one symphony, seem to be the limit of his great talents. He has attained to a mastery of form that is remarkable even in this technical age, but his music lacks sincerity and warmth in its content–in an word, original ideas. Anton Bruckner is as yet an unknown quantity, but the little we have heard of his work left an impression of originality, though a lengthy originality, so to speak. Goldmark is a purloiner of other men's ideas, [... weitere deutsche Komponisten ... Streifzug durch Europa (Dvorak, Grieg, Svendsen, Tschaikowsky, Rubinstein, Borodin etc., Lob für Franzosen, Italien außer Verdi entmutigend, England) ...]. So stand matters at present. Let us hope for different conditions December, 1892." [keine Signatur] (**).
" THE COMPOSER'S SITUATION.
The Musical Courier is moved to make the following comment in the light of the fading year: [...] The outlook now on this last day of the year of grace 1890 cannot be said to be a particularly promising one. Brahms still lives in Vienna and, despite Hanslick's dictum as to his new piano quintet [sic! vermutlich gemeint: Streichquintett op. 111], he is not doing really great work. The vice of composing without ideas, weaving metaphysical music puzzles, has seized him, and his work, while it may be beautifully objective, offers no genuine interest to the sympathetic listeners.
Brahms' op. 1, his C major piano sonata, with the "Deutschen Requiem" and one symphony, seem to be the limit of his great talents. He has attained to a mastery of form that is remarkable even in this technical age, but his music lacks sincerity and warmth in its content–in an word, original ideas. Anton Bruckner is as yet an unknown quantity, but the little we have heard of his work left an impression of originality, though a lengthy originality, so to speak. Goldmark is a purloiner of other men's ideas, [... weitere deutsche Komponisten ... Streifzug durch Europa (Dvorak, Grieg, Svendsen, Tschaikowsky, Rubinstein, Borodin etc., Lob für Franzosen, Italien außer Verdi entmutigend, England) ...]. So stand matters at present. Let us hope for different conditions December, 1892." [keine Signatur] (**).
(5. Philharmonisches Konzert unter Hans Richter mit Werken von Haydn, Grieg (Peer-Gynt-Suite) und Dvorak (8. Sinfonie) (***)).
Zitierhinweis:
Franz Scheder, Anton Bruckner Chronologie Datenbank, Eintrag Nr.: 189101045, URL: www.bruckner-online.at/ABCD-189101045letzte Änderung: Feb 12, 2023, 23:23