August Manns and the Saturday Concerts; A Memoir and a Retrospect (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The first public testimonial?Ads and Galatea conducted by Manns ?More Schumann music?Sterndale Bennett and Manns? The Choral Symphony?Schubert's music to Rosamunde?The size of orchestra increased?The great fire at the Palace?The Sunday Times and Tannhaiiser?List of some of the first orchestra?The first programme notes of "G."?Manns and the Rossini Festival?The question of high pitch?Letter from Sterndale Bennett?Beethoven Centenary. By the year 1865 Manns' work at the Palace, no less than his commanding personality and lovable disposition, had endeared him to an enormous section of the public; and the first of those spontaneous expressions of the popular esteem, of which he received several in his lifetime, was shown in a testimonial organized in the spring of the year. A list of the contributors lies before me, evidently incomplete, but of sufficient completeness to afford some idea of the widespread popularity of its object. The amounts contributed range from 2s. 6d. to 10; there are between 300 and 400 subscribers, and among them it is pleasant to find the name of Michael Costa, as well as those of Manns' brother- officials?George Grove, Scott Russell, R. K.Bowley, and of many famous musicians of the day?W. H. Cummings, Frederick Clay (1838-89; composer of " I'll sing thee Songs of Araby" and " She wandered down the Mountain-side"), Henry Chorley (the Times critic), W. H. Cusins (1833-93), Madame Rudersdorff, Madame Parepa (1836-74), Arthur Sullivan (a generous contributor, although his finances were at this time none too flourishing), Otto Goldschmidt (1829-1907), Charles Halle, Madame Lemmens- Sherrington, and many others of less note. A sum of 200, together with a clock and a pair of vases, were presented to Mr. Manns by Mr. Scott Russell, the manager of...