Word: webers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them, in the Chicago manner, arrived just on the minute, blocked the great doors of Orchestra Hall. All but a few most improper people were in time to see a trim little man scoot out alone, take a score of hurried, jerky bows and turn his back on them. Weber's Euryanthe overture was soon commemorating the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. Conductor Frederick Stock had chosen it, played it easily, precisely, as he had played it many times before...
...program commences with Weber's "Overture to 'Der Freischurtz'," an overture of many themes of which the slow movement and the Allegro are sung everywhere. Below that is a long, groaning melody, thrown out by the clarinet, which is a novel contrast. Following the overture are two Debussy Nocturnes, "Nuages" and "Fetes." The composer explains the former as "The unchangeable appearance of the sky, with the slow and solemn march of clouds dissolving in a gray agony tinted with white." The latter is described as "Rhythm dancing in the atmosphere with bursts of brusque light. There is also the episode...
Paris in 1830. Berlioz had just won the Prix de Rome after repeated failures. He went to hear Liszt play Weber's Concertstück, at the finish publicly embracing Liszt. That night the two musicians entered a drawing room together where musical prejudices were being aired, where Weber's name suffered scorn. A young French cock intimated that it was not enough for the court of Louis XVIII that Weber had been kapellmeister at every petty court of Germany. Halvéy recalled the time in Prague when Weber, director of the opera, was a mine...
This summer, Carl Maria von Weber has been dead a hundred years, but his name is much remembered. "There never was a more German composer than thou . . . The Briton does thee justice, the Frenchmen admires thee, but only the German loves thee."* In Germany, they are talking, singing, playing, reading Weber. Even during his lifetime, he and Bethovenšwere Germany's most popular composers. Weber's melodious songs influenced Wagner and his polonaises inspired Chopin...
...consumptive, nervous, hypersensitive Weber was told by a physician that he had but a few months to live, if he did not immediately take a rest and a sun cure in the South. He was considering a lucrative offer from London; Charles Kemble wished to produce Weber's opera, "Oberon," at Covent Garden. The emotional strain of such an event always left him weak for days afterward and he did not want to go to London. But going meant an inheritance for his wife and two baby sons, while living on aimlessly a few years more meant leaving...