Modern music and musicians - (Encyclopedic) (1918) (14592956907)

Identifier: modernmusicmusic02elso (find matches)
Title: Modern music and musicians : (Encyclopedic)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920
Subjects: Piano Musicians Composers
Publisher: New York : The University Society Inc.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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r arms. She was a courageous woman, whoconcealed great sensitiveness of feeling beneath a mask of impassibility.She idolized the genius of Berlioz, and every enemy of the great artistbecame her own. Her grateful son-in-law left her at his death the use ofall he possessed, with the exception of some private bequests and his man-uscripts, which went to the Conservatory. I see her still, trembling withemotion, but rigid as a specter, as she sat far back in her opera-box, theevening, a year after the death of the master, when we held the festivalwhich was the first shining of the posthumous glory with which posterityshould avenge him. Our finest artists sought the honor of appearing on that 168 HECTOR BERLIOZ program, where the great names of Grluck, of Beethoven, and of Spontiniwere associated with that of Berlioz, the only contemporary musician whohad nothing to fear from such dangerous companionship. Unhappily, thepecuniary result of this noble occasion came very far from answering the
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HOME OF BERLIOZ FROM 184, TO 1846. No. 31 rue de Londres, Paris. It was during Berliozs residence here that La Damnation de Faust was produced at the Opera Comique, December 6, 1846. expectations of the friends and disciples who organized it. Many yearswere still to elapse before these disciples should record in bronze his com-plete glorification and final apotheosis. The unveiling of the Berlioz statue took place on the 17th of October,1886. The sky was leaden, the weather cold and rainy, but the approachesto Montholon Square had been invaded from an early hour in the morn-ing. When the veil fell which covered the statue, and the first tone ofthe triumphal symphony swelled out, what an immense acclamation andlong cry of enthusiasm burst from among the multitude! This brillianthomage bestowed on one of the most illustrious composers of any age, themost extraordinary one, perhaps, that ever existed, had long been in pre- Paris, le 20 Juillet, 1846.A son Excellence, Monsieur le Ministbe