Aufführung der f-Moll-Messe durch die Hovkapelle und den Musikföreningens kör unter Victor Wiklund [in Stockholm?] (*).

 

Besprechung des gestrigen Konzerts mit der 7. Symphonie in The Philadelphia Inquirer Nr. 153 auf S. 10:

"               BOSTON ORCHESTA HERE

     The Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Karl Muck, gave its second concert for the season before the kind of audience which its appearance never fails to attract at the Academy of Music last evening when the programme consisted of only two numbers. Bruckner's seventh symphony and Beethoven's concerto for the violin.

     The symphony was in the nature of a novelty, as it had not previously been presented here. Although characterized by the diffuseness and prolixity which were Bruckner's besetting sins–it plays for a mortal hour and a few minutes over–it is in every sense of the word a great work and the tedium which its inordinate length entails is from time to time illuminated by flashes of genius which reconcile the listener to the excessive demands which are made upon his attention. Easily the finest and most interesting of its movements is the heavenly adagio in which a theme of singular beauty is developed and exhibited and diversified with a wonderfully skillful and resourceful art, which by itself sufficiently rewards the patience which the composition in its entirety exacts and renders its production well worth the while.

     At the same time it must be regretted that Bruckner's sense of proportion and of form did not serve to restrain him from the inordinate copiousness in which he indulged and that he so conspicuously failed to cultivate or practice the virtue of reticence. His injudicious or undiscriminating admireres affected at one time to recognize in him a rival and even superior to Brahms, but one among other grounds upon which such claims must be rejected is embodied in the circumstance that Brahms always knows when to stop, something that Bruckner could never learn. There is not a note in one of Brahms symphonies which could well be spared out, but in the symphony played last evening there are whole pages whose elimination would be an undisputed and indisputable improvement.

     The Beethoven concerto was done by Fritz Kreisler [...]. The next of these concerts will be given on Monday evening, January 3." [keine Signatur] (**).

 

Hinweis auf die Aufführung der 4. Symphonie [am 17./18.12.1915] und den Einführungsvortrag am 1.12.1915 in The Cincinnati Enquirer Nr. 334 auf S. 7:

"                SYMPHONY LECTURE.

     So great an interest has been aroused by the announcement of a lecture by Dr. Kunwald on "The Viennese Scholl in Music," which will be given in Memorial Hall on Wednesday evening, that the supply of tickets has almost been exhausted. [...].

     According to his custom in the past, which has been found both interesting and instructive, Dr. Kunwald will illustrate his lecture on the piano. [... die drei Symphonien des nächsten Konzerts (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven) ...]. Besides these the Fourth Symphony of Bruckner which will be played at the following series of concerts, will be discussed." (***).