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Carl Maria von Weber
Portrait lithograph of Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
- Date
- 1827
- Resource Type
- Creator
- CreatorContributor
- Form of original
- img/jp2
- Campus
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- Date created
- 2020-12-03
- Handle
- Identifier
- g2f246
- islandora:3676
- Notes
- Exhibited: The Beethovens on the Rhine: Honoring Beethoven in Bonn (2020). Exhibition text: Though “crowded to excess,” response to the final concert, which began at 9 a.m. Wednesday, was not as warmly received, likely because it featured a long program of music by other composers, including Liszt’s new Beethoven-Festkantate and a piano concerto by Carl Maria von Weber. The correspondent’s assessment of this concert, from which we can learn much about participant behavior and national biases, is so interesting that we fully quote generously from it here: “[In] the scheme of ‘artists’ came the intrigues, jealousies, and petty passions. Madame [Marie] Pleyel wanted, at one time, to perform three times. Moscheles … was indignant that he was not called upon to play. The friends of Madame [Anna Caroline] Oury thought that, as she was German born, and had been an eloquent interpreter of the master mind, her claims had been slighted. Madame [Louise] Dulcken imagined that, as she had given soirées where Beethoven’s music was chiefly executed, that she was overlooked. Charles Hallé is also a Beethovenite. However, Madame Pleyel alone gained the day, and of course the excluded were excited. As for the violinists, violoncellists, the hornplayers, flute soloists, &c., &c., they were innumerable. Could anything be more monstrous that two violoncello fantasias in one programme? Cherubini was once asked what could e worse than a flute solo, and replied a flute duo … Of the [scheduled program of 14 works], however, [5] were omitted. The Royal party stayed only to listed to [6] works … after the Royal departure, which took place in decorous silence, [an air by Mendelssohn, a Violin Concerto by Möser, and a violoncello solo played by Franco Mendes] concluded the Concert, the dinner our having arrived; and a few dissentients alone of the immense assemblage expressing their discontent at the non-completion of this unsatisfactory programme.”
- Extent
- 13.5 x 13 cm
- Rights Note
- This work is in the public domain and therefore the digital images attached to this catalog record may be used without permission. Credit statements for these images should read “From the collections of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University.” For information on obtaining higher resolution reproductions and permission to publish, see the Beethoven Center's website https://www.sjsu.edu/beethoven/collection/library-materials/index.php
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