Aufführung der 3. Symphonie durch das Concertgebouworchester unter Evert Cornelis in Amsterdam (*).

The Washington Post Nr. 14086 bringt auf S. 3 [des 1. Teils?] einen Artikel (signiert "J. MacB."), der sich mit der Übermacht der deutschen Musik beschäftigt:

"           Music and Musicians

OUR awakened interest in the European countries makes an article published in the Musician, commenting on an Italian's essay, "The Pretended Supremacy of German music," [...]. It points out that, with the exception of Bach and Handel, who were German born, many musicians who are frequently classed as Germans are Austrians, Bohemians, Hungarians, and Hollanders. "It is true," says the article," that Beethoven was born at Bonn; but his family had emigrated from Antwerp, [... er und Brahms ...] should be called Viennese.

     "Of course, Schubert was purely Viennese. Mozart and Haydn were also Austrians; Gluck was a Bohemian; Bruckner from Upper Austria; Carl Goldmark, a Hungarian; Dvorak, Smetana, Fibich, and Bendel belonged to the Czech school, that is Slavs, and not Germans. Wagner and Schumann were Saxons, but we must not forget that Saxony was, for a long time, more Austrian than German.

     [...]. This breaking up of the larger group into its diverse parts is of historical importance.

                                          J. MacB." (**).

[Erneute Veröffentlichung dieses Textes am 6.5.1920 in Washington]