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 JTHE MUSICIAN'S 
 YEAR BOOK 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 MARGARET REINTZEL 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 
 
 31 West Twenty-third Street 
 
 1907
 
 Copyright, by 
 
 E. P. Dutton & Co, 
 
 1895.
 
 IN 
 
 GRATEFUL MEMORY 
 
 OF MY 
 
 TEACHERS.
 
 JANUARY. 
 
 I can always leave off talking tuhen I hear a master 
 
 play. 
 
 Browning.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR 
 BOOK. 
 
 January First. 
 
 Every day that we spend without learning 
 
 something is a day lost. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 William Beale was born January i, 1784. 
 Lef6bvre Wely died January 1, 1870. 
 
 January Second. 
 
 In January, 1822, Maelzel came before the 
 public with his metronome. 
 
 " One must not only learn to count while 
 playing, but make the playing fit the count- 
 ing." 
 
 7
 
 8 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 January Third. 
 
 He who would do a great thing well must 
 first have done the simplest thing perfectly. 
 
 Cady. 
 
 Henriette Sontag was born January 3, 
 1806. 
 
 Thomas Ludford Bellamy died January 
 
 3> l8 43- 
 
 January Fourth. 
 
 The study of the history of music, and the 
 hearing of masterworks of different epochs, 
 will cure one of vanity and self-adulation. 
 
 Robert Schumann. 
 
 Ludwig Ehlert died January 4, 1884. 
 
 January Fifth. 
 
 A rule drawn up in 1653 in Germany, 
 signed by Emperor Ferdinand III. :
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 9 
 
 "No man shall dare to perform on dis- 
 honorable instruments, such as hurdy-gur- 
 dies, bagpipes, and triangles, which beggars 
 use for collecting alms, so that the noble art 
 of music is brought into contempt by them." 
 
 January Sixth. 
 
 Music is a stimulant to mental exertion. 
 
 D'Israeli. 
 
 Max Bruck was born January 6, 1838. 
 Taubert died January 6, 1891. 
 Heinrich Hertz was born January 6, 1806. 
 Rudolph Kreutzer died January 6, 1831. 
 
 January Seventh. 
 
 When Thalberg played a melody it stood 
 out in bold dynamic relief ; not because he 
 pounded, but because he kept the accom- 
 paniment duly subdued. 
 
 Christiani.
 
 IO THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Sigismund Thalberg was born January 7, 
 1812. 
 
 Robert Nicolas Bochsa died January 7, 
 1856. 
 
 January Eighth. 
 
 Without enthusiasm one will never accom- 
 plish anything in art. 
 
 Robert Schumann. 
 
 Handel's first opera, " Almeria," was pro- 
 duced January 8, 1705. 
 
 Hans Guido von Bulow was born January 
 8, 1830. 
 
 January Ninth. 
 
 Of all the fine arts music is that which has 
 most influence on the passions, and which 
 the legislator ought the most to encourage. 
 
 Napoleon Bonaparte.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. II 
 
 January Tenth. 
 
 If all were determined to play the first 
 violin we should never have a complete 
 orchestra. Therefore respect every musi- 
 cian in his proper place. 
 
 Robert Schumann. 
 
 January Eleventh. 
 
 You should no more play without phras- 
 ing than speak without inflection and gram- 
 matical pauses. 
 
 Charles Landon. 
 
 John Field died January n, 1837. 
 Domenico Cimarosa died January 11, 
 1801. 
 
 January Twelfth. 
 
 I am what I am because I was industri- 
 ous ; whoever is equally sedulous will be 
 
 equally successful. 
 
 J. Sebastian Bach.
 
 12 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Arabella Goddard was born January 12, 
 1836. 
 
 January Thirteenth. 
 
 Genius at first is little more than a great 
 capacity for receiving discipline. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 Heinrich Hoffmann was born January 13, 
 1842. 
 
 Ferdinand Ries died January 13, 1838. 
 Lud wig Ehlert was born January 13, 1825. 
 
 January Fourteenth. 
 
 Music is a discipline, and a mistress of 
 
 order and good manners. 
 
 Martin Luther. 
 
 Luigi Boccherini was born January 14, 
 1740. 
 
 Francois Joseph Dizi was born January 
 14, 1780.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 3 
 
 January Fifteenth. 
 
 Music resembles chess: the queen (mel- 
 ody) has the most power, but the king (har- 
 mony) turns the scale. 
 
 Robert Schumann. 
 
 January Sixteenth. 
 
 The principal requisites for a musician, a 
 fine ear and a swift power of comprehension, 
 come, like all things, from above. 
 
 Robert Schumann. 
 
 January Seventeenth. 
 
 When an artist has been able to say, " I 
 
 came, I saw, I conquered," it has been at 
 
 the end of patient practice. 
 
 George Eliot.
 
 14 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 January Eighteenth. 
 
 To accompany well you must not only be 
 
 a good musician, but you must be mesmeric, 
 
 sympathetic, intuitive. 
 
 Haweis. 
 
 Arcangelo Corelli died January 18, 1713. 
 Stephen Foster died January 18, 1864. 
 
 January Nineteenth. 
 
 Sacrifice all the trivialities of social life to 
 
 thy art. 
 
 The Odyssey. 
 
 Ferdinand David was born January 19, 
 1810. 
 
 Louis Joseph Ferdinand Harold died 
 January 19, 1833.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I 5 
 
 January Twentieth. 
 
 The art of true accompanying lies in a 
 
 willing self-immolation. 
 
 Haweis. 
 
 January Twenty-first. 
 
 The hallowed melody of magic song 
 
 Does to creation as a link belong ; 
 
 Blending its music with God's harmony, 
 
 As rivers melt into the mighty sea. 
 
 Schiller. 
 
 Parepa Rosa died January 21, 1874. 
 
 January Twenty-second. 
 
 " Music is allied to the highest sentiments 
 of man's moral nature — love of God, love of 
 country, love of friends."
 
 1 6 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 January Twenty -third. 
 
 In order to please everybody at once it is 
 necessary to compromise, and in questions 
 of art he who compromises is sure to disap- 
 pear in a short time. 
 
 Richard Wagner. 
 
 January Twenty-fourth. 
 
 Let not a day pass, if possible, without 
 
 having heard some fine music, read a noble 
 
 poem, or seen a beautiful picture. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 Carlo Farinelli was born January 24, 1722. 
 Baron von Flotow died January 24, 1883. 
 
 January Twenty-fifth. 
 
 Sing aloud old songs — the precious music 
 
 of the heart. 
 
 Wordsworth.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 17 
 
 Robert Burns was born January 25, 1759. 
 Parish Alvars died January 25, 1849. 
 
 January Twenty-sixth. 
 
 Music in the best sense does not require 
 
 novelty. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 Frederick Corder was born January 26, 
 1852. 
 
 January Twenty -seventh. 
 
 From whatever side and with whatever 
 feeling we may glance at Mozart, we always 
 meet with the genuine and pure nature of 
 the artist, a nature filled with perennial love, 
 which finds only joy and satisfaction in pro- 
 ducing the beautiful, animated with the spirit 
 
 of truth. 
 
 Otto Jahn. 
 
 Johann Wolfgang Mozart was born Janu- 
 ary 27, 1756.
 
 1 8 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 January Twenty-eighth. 
 
 He is a good musician who understands 
 
 the music without the score, and the score 
 
 without the music. 
 
 Robert Schumann. 
 
 Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold was born 
 January 28, 1791. 
 
 January Twenty-ninth. 
 
 Music washes away from the soul the dust 
 
 of every-day life. 
 
 Auerbach. 
 
 Franz Auber was born January 29, 1784. 
 Frederick Cowen was born January 29, 
 1852. 
 
 January Thirtieth. 
 
 As the true poem is the poet's mind, so 
 true expression is the artist's soul. 
 
 Tapper.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. \q 
 
 January Thirty-first. 
 
 There was a time when I talked unwill- 
 ingly of Schubert, whose name, I thought, 
 should only be whispered at night to the 
 trees and stars. 
 
 Robert Schumann. 
 
 Franz Peter Schubert was born January 
 3 1 , 1797-
 
 FEBRUARY. 
 
 There is music in all things if men had ears.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 23 
 
 February First. 
 
 Save Mendelssohn, I know no other living 
 artist but Bennett who has so much to say at 
 so little expense. There may be bolder and 
 more gifted ones, but none more neat and 
 
 tender. 
 
 Robert Schumann. 
 
 Sterndale Bennett died February i, 1875. 
 
 February Seeond. 
 
 Palestrina's music has all its separate parts 
 
 so beautiful that one would like to sing them 
 
 all one's self. 
 
 Hauptmann. 
 
 Giovanni Palestrina died February 2, 1 594.
 
 24 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 February Third. 
 
 It is not his [Mendelssohn's] genius that 
 surprises me and compels my admiration, for 
 that he has from God. No, it is his inces- 
 sant toil, his bee-like industry, his stern 
 conscientiousness, his inflexibility toward 
 
 himself, his actual adoration of art. 
 
 Zelter. 
 
 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was born 
 February 3, 1809. 
 
 Emile Prudent was born February 3, 181 7. 
 
 February Fourth. 
 
 Music should strike fire from the heart of 
 
 man, and bring tears from the eyes of 
 
 woman. 
 
 Beethoven.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 25 
 
 Michael Costa was born February 4, 1 8 1 o. 
 Joseph Artot was born February 4, 181 5. 
 
 February Fifth. 
 
 What shall I say of Jenny Lind ? This 
 wonderful astiste stands far too high in my 
 estimation to be dragged down by common- 
 place phrases such as newspaper writers so 
 
 copiously indulge in. 
 
 Moscheles. 
 
 Jenny Lind and Otto Goldschmidt were 
 married February 5, 1852. 
 
 Ole Bull was born February 5, 1810. 
 
 February Sixth. 
 
 The barriers are not erected that can say 
 
 to aspiring talents and industry, " Thus far 
 
 and no farther." 
 
 Beethoven.
 
 26 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 February Seventh. 
 
 True art endures forever, and the true ar- 
 tist delights in the works of great minds. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 William Boyce died February 7, 1779. 
 
 February Eighth. 
 
 Make a habit to go into music, not over 
 it. 
 
 Tapper. 
 
 February Ninth. 
 Great is song used to great ends. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 Schroeder-Devrient died February 9, i860. 
 Johann Ludwig Dussek was born Febru- 
 ary 9, 1 761.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 2 "J 
 
 February Tenth. 
 
 Love your instrument, but do not vainly 
 
 suppose it the highest and only one. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 February Eleventh. 
 
 Although instrumental music cannot be 
 sung, yet the player may render by adequate 
 modulation its meaning, and the sad or joy- 
 ous thoughts it is intended to express. 
 
 Praetorius. 
 
 February Twelfth. 
 
 Every one who thinks genius can be with- 
 out understanding, thinks without under- 
 standing himself. 
 
 Jean Paul.
 
 28 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 February Thirteenth. 
 
 The understanding is not a vessel which 
 must be filled, but firewood, which needs to 
 be kindled ; and love of learning and love 
 of truth are what should kindle it. 
 
 Plutarch. 
 
 Richard Wagner died February 13, 1883. 
 Von Biilow died February 13, 1894. 
 Johann Burgmuller died February 13, 
 1874. 
 
 February Fourteenth. 
 
 Have you real talent for art ? Then study 
 music, do something worthy of the art, and 
 dedicate your whole soul to the beloved 
 saint. 
 
 Longfellow.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 29 
 
 February Fifteenth. 
 
 When any master holds 
 'Twixt chin and hand a violin of mine, 
 He will be glad that Stradivari lived, 
 Made violins, and made them of the best. 
 
 George Eliot's " Stradivarius" 
 
 Frederick Ernst was born February 15, 
 1789. 
 
 February Sixteenth. 
 
 Perfection should be the aim of every true 
 
 artist. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 Leopold Damrosch died January 15, 
 1885. 
 
 February Seventeenth. 
 
 We must hear Italian music among the 
 
 Italians. German music can be enjoyed 
 
 under every heaven. 
 
 Schumann.
 
 3<D THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 February Eighteenth. 
 
 Paganini is the turning-point of virtuosity. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Paganini was born February 18, 1784. 
 
 February Nineteenth. 
 
 Lightlier move 
 
 The minutes edged with music. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 Ernst Sivori died February 19, 1894, 
 Giovanni Pacini was born February 19, 
 1796. 
 
 February Twentieth. 
 
 I will live alone and pour my pain with 
 passion into music, where it turns to what 
 is best within my better self. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 De BeViot was born February 20, 1802.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 3 1 
 
 February Twenty-first. 
 
 The most talented composers of the pres- 
 ent day are pianists — a fact that has been 
 
 observed during former epochs. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Carl Czerny was born February 21, 1791. 
 Theodore Doehler died February 21, 1856. 
 John Pyke Hullah died February 21, 1884. 
 
 February Twenty-second. 
 
 The sole aim of a composer should be 
 
 the progress of his art. 
 
 Gluck. 
 
 Niels Wilhelm Gade was born February 
 22, 1817. 
 
 Alexander Campbell was born February 
 22, 1764.
 
 32 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 February Twenty-third. 
 
 How divine is the vocation of art ! 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 February Tiventy -fourth. 
 
 Handel is the unequaled master of all 
 masters. Go, turn to him and learn, with 
 few means, how to produce such great effects. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 George Frederick Handel was born Feb- 
 ruary 24, 1684. 
 
 Johann Baptist Cramer was born Febru- 
 ary 24, 1771. 
 
 Arrigo Boito was born February 24, 1842. 
 
 Gasparo Spontini died February 24, 185 1. 
 
 February Twenty-fifth. 
 
 In music you will soon find out what per- 
 sonal benefit there is in being serviceable.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 33 
 
 Get your voice disciplined and clear, and 
 
 think only of accuracy. If you have any 
 
 soul worth expressing it will show itself in 
 
 your singing. 
 
 Ruskin. 
 
 Thomas Moore died February 25, 1852. 
 
 February Twenty-sixth. 
 
 Play to our nobler selves a strain triumphant, 
 
 To victory a call! 
 Then in the hour of temptation 
 
 We'll soar above it all. 
 
 Francis Albert Doughty. 
 
 February Twenty-seventh. 
 
 The human voice is really the foundation 
 
 of all music. 
 
 Wagner. 
 
 Joseph Victor Capoul was born February 
 27, 1839.
 
 34 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 February Twenty-eighth. 
 
 I love not the men whose lives are not in 
 
 unison with their works. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 February Twenty-ninth. 
 
 Music was taught to Achilles in order to 
 
 moderate his passions. 
 
 Homer. 
 
 Gioacchimo Rossini was born February 
 29, 1792. 
 
 Parish Alvars was born February 29, 1816.
 
 MARCH. 
 
 I pant for music that is divine. 
 
 Shelley
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 37 
 
 March First. 
 
 When we speak of grace, enthusiasm, pres- 
 ence of mind, nobility, and warmth of feel- 
 ing, who does not think of Chopin ? 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Frederick Chopin was born March i, 
 1809. 
 
 Moscheles married Charlotte Embden 
 March i, 1825. 
 
 Theodore Kullak died March 1, 1882. 
 
 March Second. 
 
 Faith in his subject is an indispensable 
 requisite in the work of an artist. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 Sir George Alexander Macfarren was born 
 March 2, 1834.
 
 38 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 March Third. 
 
 Any fool can play fast, but it takes a good _ 
 
 musician to play slowly. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 March Fourth. 
 
 Artists will derive additional facility of 
 
 execution from hearing and cultivating vocal 
 
 as well as instrumental music. 
 
 C. P. E. Bach. 
 
 Charles Oberthur was born March 4, 1819. 
 
 March Fifth. 
 
 Pianistic technique implies, in its widest 
 sense, a faultless mastery of every mechan- 
 ical difficulty in the required tempo, and 
 
 without any perceptible effort. 
 
 Christiani. 
 
 Alfred Jaell was born March 5, 1830.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 39 
 
 March Sixth. 
 
 True genius, so far from imitating the 
 
 productions of others which command its 
 
 admiration, is only impelled to new efforts 
 
 by them. 
 
 Weber. 
 
 March Seventh. 
 
 A composer who has the power to con- 
 struct very beautiful works of art in a cer- 
 tain form by inventing ideas, and by show- 
 ing in a new light ideas not invented by 
 him, deserves to be regarded as a great 
 
 composer. 
 
 Engel. 
 
 March Eighth. 
 
 True art is the result of knowledge and 
 
 inspiration. 
 
 Berlioz.
 
 40 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Hector Berlioz died March 8, 1869. 
 Delphin Alard was born March 8, 181 5. 
 
 March Ninth. 
 
 For recreation from your musical studies 
 
 read the poets frequently. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Muzio Clementi died March 9, 1832. 
 Theodore Labarre was born March 9, 
 1805, and died March 9, 1870. 
 
 March Tenth. 
 
 Of the nine the loveliest three 
 Are painting, music, poetry. 
 But thou art freest of the free, 
 Matchless muse of harmony. 
 
 Grillparzer. 
 ( Translated by Sir Walter Scott for Moscheles 's 
 album in 1828.)
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 4 1 
 
 Ignaz Moscheles died March 10, 1870. 
 Dudley Buck was born March 10, 1839. 
 
 March Eleve?ith. 
 
 Music is one of the greatest educators in 
 the world, and the study of it in its highest 
 departments, such as composition, harmony, 
 and counterpoint, develops the mind as much 
 as the study of mathematics or the languages. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 March Twelfth. 
 
 Improve every opportunity of practising 
 upon the organ : there is no instrument which 
 takes such- speedy revenge on the impure 
 and the slovenly in composition or in play- 
 ing as the organ. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Felix Alexandre Guilmant was born March 
 12, 1837.
 
 42 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 March Thirteenth. 
 
 Music is such a perfect expression of 
 human emotion that we can almost deduce 
 from it a moral science — a rule of life. 
 
 Goodrich. 
 
 March Fourteenth. 
 
 Art springs in its earliest beginnings from 
 religion, and returns to it in its highest de- 
 velopment. 
 
 Ambrose. 
 
 Philipp Emanuel Bach was born March 
 14, 1714. 
 
 March Fifteenth. 
 
 The love of the beautiful, next to the spir- 
 itual perception of God and eternal relation- 
 ships, must be admitted to be man's crown- 
 ing distinction. 
 
 Vancleve.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 43 
 
 Maria Luigo Cherubini died March 15, 
 1842. 
 
 March Sixteenth. 
 
 The spirit of the artist is one of self-abne- 
 gation, of devotion to ideal aims. 
 
 Fillmore. 
 
 John Baptiste Calkin was born March 16, 
 1827. 
 
 March Seventeenth. 
 
 Notions may be imported by books from 
 
 abroad; ideas must be grown at home by 
 
 thought. 
 
 Hare. 
 
 Rheinberger was born March 17, 1839. 
 
 March Eighteenth. 
 
 The best definition of true melody, in a 
 higher sense, is something that may be sung. 
 
 Ernst Hoffmann.
 
 44 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Madam Anna Bishop died March 18, 
 1884. 
 
 March Nineteenth. 
 
 He who can see the good in art-works is 
 an abler and a far superior critic than he 
 who sees only faults. 
 
 Men. 
 
 March Twentieth. 
 
 The road to perfection, to mastership, lies 
 in the direction of constant application. 
 
 Werz. 
 
 Johann Ludwig Dussek died March 20, 
 1812. 
 
 March Twenty -first. 
 
 To me it is with Bach as if the eternal 
 harmonies discoursed with one another. 
 
 Goethe.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 45 
 
 Johann Sebastian Bach was born March 
 21, 1685. 
 
 March Twenty-second. 
 
 If by your art you cannot please all, con- 
 tent the few. To please the multitude is 
 
 bad. 
 
 Schiller. 
 
 Jean Baptiste Lully died March 22, 1687. 
 Carl Rosa was born March 22, 1842. 
 
 March Twenty-third. 
 
 The love of beauty is taste ; the creation 
 
 of beauty is art. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 Franz Bendel was born March 23, 1833.
 
 46 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 March Twenty -fourth. 
 
 On life's dull stream, that niggard moves 
 
 along, 
 Shimmers the lively shadow-world of song. 
 
 Schiller. 
 
 Maria Felicia Malibran was born March 
 24, 1808. 
 
 Thomas Attwood died March 24, 1838. 
 
 March Twenty -fifth. 
 
 Think more of your own progress than of 
 
 the opinion of others. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 Francois Joseph F6tis was born March 
 25, 1784. 
 
 March Twenty-sixth. 
 
 In Beethoven imagination, feeling, intel- 
 lect, and character are developed with equal
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 47 
 
 power, and in perfect harmony with one 
 
 another. 
 
 Von Elterlein. 
 
 Ludwig von Beethoven died March 26, 
 1827. 
 
 March Twenty -seventh. 
 
 The masterworks of the past should be 
 the standard of the works of the present. 
 
 Franz. 
 
 March Twenty-eighth. 
 
 Music is calculated to compose the mind, 
 
 and fit it for instruction. 
 
 Aris tides. 
 
 Gottlob Bachmann was born March 28, 
 
 Johann Andre was born March 28, 1741. 
 John Cheshire was born March 28, 1839.
 
 48 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 March Twenty-ninth. 
 
 It is one thing to give ourselves up to re- 
 flection, and another to yield to inspiration. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 Johann Andreas Amon died March 29, 
 1825. 
 
 March Thirtieth. 
 
 The scholastic music had no art, the popu- 
 lar music no science. 
 
 Hullah. 
 
 March Thirty-first. 
 
 Joseph Haydn! A man who always held 
 
 his gifts as a trust from the Maker of all, 
 
 and who recognized his own stewardship by 
 
 inscribing most of his writings, " To the praise 
 
 of God." 
 
 Ernst Patter. 
 
 Joseph Haydn was born March 31, 1732.
 
 APRIL. 
 
 A man may mirror his own nature in his playing. 
 
 Schumann.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 5 1 
 
 April First. 
 
 All inmost things, we may say, are melodi- 
 ous, naturally utter themselves in song. The 
 meaning of song goes deep. Who is there 
 that, in logical words, can express the effect 
 
 music has on us ? 
 
 Carlyle. 
 
 April Second. 
 
 What the learner discovers by mental ex- 
 ertion is better known than what is told to 
 
 him. 
 
 Marcel. 
 
 April TJiird. 
 
 To the true artist music should be a neces- 
 sity, not merely an occupation. 
 
 R. Franz.
 
 52 
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Friedrich Wilhelm Kiicken died April 3, 
 1882. 
 
 April Fourth. 
 
 It is essential that you train your mind 
 
 more than your fingers. 
 
 Moscheles. 
 
 God has a few of us whom he whispers in 
 
 the ear; 
 
 The rest may reason, and welcome — 'tis we 
 
 musicians know. 
 
 Robert Brcnvning. 
 
 April Fifth. 
 
 Contact with the powers of others calls 
 
 forth new ones in ourselves. 
 
 Von Weber. 
 
 Theodore Hagen was born April 5, 1826. 
 S6bastien £rard was born April 5, 1752.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 53 
 
 April Sixth. 
 
 It is much easier to be critical than to be 
 
 correct. 
 
 D '■ } Israeli. 
 
 Volkmann was born April 6, 1815. 
 
 April Seventh. 
 
 Harmony is a beautiful problem of which 
 
 melody is the solution. 
 
 Gretry. 
 
 Giovanni Rubini was born April 7, 1795. 
 
 April Eighth. 
 
 Music is the outflow of a beautiful mind. 
 
 Schumann.
 
 54 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Gaetano Donizetti died April 8, 1848. 
 Anton Diabelli died April 8, 1858. 
 
 April Ninth. 
 
 Think you I felt myself a prima donna ? 
 No, but a happy spiritual star, such as old' 
 Dante saw, whose only self was conscious- 
 ness of glory wide-diffused, music, life, 
 power. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 Adelina Patti was born April 9, 1843. 
 John Balsir Chatterton died April 9, 1871. 
 
 April Tenth. 
 
 We must ever strive after the highest, 
 and never weary because others have earlier 
 obtained the good to which we aspire. 
 
 Mendelssohn.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 55 
 
 The Leipzig Conservatoire was inaugu- 
 rated April 10, 1843, with Mendelssohn at 
 the head. 
 
 Eugene d' Albert was born April i o, 1 864. 
 
 April Eleventh. 
 
 Music is never stationary ; successive forms 
 and styles are only like so many resting- 
 places — like tents pitched and taken down 
 
 again on the road to the Ideal. 
 
 Franz Liszt. 
 
 John Alcock was born April 11, 171 5. 
 
 April Twelfth. 
 
 The beginning is half of the whole, and 
 
 we all praise a good beginning. 
 
 Plato. 
 
 Charles Burney was born April 12, 1726 ; 
 died April 12, 18 14.
 
 56 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 April Thirtee?ith. 
 
 Learn all there is to learn, and then choose 
 
 your own path. 
 
 Handel. 
 
 Handel's oratorio, "The Messiah," was first 
 performed April 13, 1742, at Dublin. The 
 audience, with George II. at its head, rose 
 at the Hallelujah Chorus, and the custom 
 survives to the present day. 
 
 George Frederick Handel died April 13 
 
 1759- 
 
 Sterndale Bennett was born April 13, 18 16. 
 
 April Fourteenth. 
 
 You may be a genius and still trample art 
 underfoot. You may be one only possess-
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 57 
 
 ing meager talent and still claim the respeci 
 due to him who strives worthily. 
 
 Ferdinand von Hiller. 
 
 Lotus Niedermeyer died April 14, 1861. 
 
 April Fifteenth. 
 
 There is fame enough for one man in 
 
 the " Overture to the Midsummer Night's 
 
 Dream " of Mendelssohn. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 James Bartlemann died April 15, 1821. 
 Thomas Anderton was born April 15, 
 
 1836. 
 
 April Sixteenth. 
 
 In sweet music is such art, 
 Killing care and grief of heart 
 Fall asleep, or hearing, die. 
 
 Shakespeare,
 
 58 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Johann Baptist Cramer died April 16, 
 1850. 
 
 Gaetano Gaffarelli was born April 16, 
 
 Domenico Dragonetti died April 16, 1846. 
 
 April Seventeenth. 
 
 We cannot understand a complete educa- 
 tion of man without music. 
 
 Jean Paul Richter. 
 
 Ann Sheppard Mounsey Bartholomew was 
 born April 17, 181 1. 
 
 April Eighteenth. 
 
 By the word " symphony " we designate 
 
 the largest proportion hitherto attained in 
 
 instrumental music. 
 
 Schumann.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 59 
 
 April Nineteenth. 
 
 The tone-art shows the play of various 
 emotions: it is an ideal representation of 
 the individual life and its soul melodies. 
 
 Carriere. 
 
 April Twentieth. 
 
 The man who labors only for money is 
 selfish ; he who sacrifices all for fame is fool- 
 ish ; he who lives for the truth is the true 
 
 disciple. 
 
 Men. 
 
 Theodore Doehler was born April 20, 
 1814. 
 
 April Twenty-first. 
 
 From the bottom of my heart do I detest 
 that one-sidedness of the uneducated many
 
 60 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 who think that their own small vocation is 
 the best, and that every other is a humbug. 
 
 Schubert. 
 
 George Benjamin Allen was born April 2 1 , 
 1822. 
 
 April Twenty-seco?id. 
 
 Musical rhythm drives away weariness, 
 
 lessens fatigue, detaches the mind from the 
 
 painful realities of life, and braces up the 
 
 courage to meet danger. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 Henri Berton died April 22, 1844. 
 
 April Twenty-third. 
 
 A truly inspired artist always plunges into 
 his work with enthusiastic abandon. 
 
 Wagner.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 6 1 
 
 April Twenty -fourth. 
 
 The greatest beauties of melody and har- 
 mony become faults and imperfections when 
 they are not in their proper place. 
 
 • Gluck. 
 
 April Twenty-fifth. 
 
 In a composition which is full of merit a 
 
 critic should point out the faults ; in another 
 
 which is full of faults he should look for the 
 
 redeeming features. 
 
 Hauptmann. 
 
 Louis Spohr was born April 25, 1784. 
 Tschaikowsky was born April 25, 1840. 
 Alfred Scott Gatty was born April 25, 
 1847.
 
 62 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 April Twenty -sixth. 
 
 Good music has a logic of its own ; none 
 more severe, and surely none so fascinating ; 
 for it leads, it charms into the Infinite. 
 
 Dwight. 
 
 April Twenty-seventh, 
 
 Every difficulty slurred over will be a 
 ghost to disturb your repose later on. 
 
 Chopin. 
 
 Baron von Flotow was born April 27, 
 1812. 
 
 Louis Niedermeyer was born April 27, 
 1802. 
 
 Romberg was born April 27, 1767.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 63 
 
 April Twenty-eighth. 
 
 The aim of art is not only to copy the ex- 
 amples of nature, but to beautify, to idealize, 
 and to group and arrange them. 
 
 Ernst Pauer. 
 
 April Twenty-ninth. 
 
 The musical genius of Germany is divided 
 
 into three eras, each identified with a triad 
 
 whose works have successively enlarged the 
 
 domain of art — viz., Bach, Handel, and 
 
 Gluck; Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; 
 
 Weber, Mendelssohn, and Spohr. 
 
 Ella.
 
 64 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 April Thirtieth. 
 
 Sing frequently in choruses, especially in 
 the middle parts. This makes you musical. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Carl Formes died April 30, 1889. 
 
 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop died April 30, 
 
 i855-
 
 MAY. 
 
 It was by music that mankind was harmonized. 
 
 Herder.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 67 
 
 May First. 
 
 The crucial test of good vocal music is 
 the intrinsic merit of the music when sepa- 
 rated from the words, and that merit consists 
 
 in the beauty of musical thought. 
 
 Hiller. 
 
 Emma Albertazzi was born May i, 1814. 
 
 May Second. 
 
 We soon grow weary of mere imitation, 
 because it affords no food for our intellect. 
 
 Veron. 
 
 Giacomo Meyerbeer died May 2, 1864. 
 
 May Third. 
 
 Touch is to the pianist what a good man- 
 agement of the voice is to the vocalist, or
 
 68 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 a good action of the bow to a violinist — 
 
 the means of producing agreeable sounds 
 
 and of executing difficulties. 
 
 Taylor. 
 
 William Beale died May 3, 1854. 
 
 May Fourth. 
 
 Cheerfulness is one of the graces every 
 artist should cultivate, and it should be de- 
 veloped and increased. 
 
 Sonnekalb. 
 
 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Cecile 
 Jeanrenaud were married in May. 
 
 May Fifth. 
 
 In my opinion a musician's real work only 
 begins when he has reached what is called 
 perfection, viz., a point beyond which he 
 
 has nothing apparently to learn. 
 
 Mendelssohn.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 69 
 
 May Sixth. 
 
 It is art and science alone that reveal to 
 
 us and give us the hope of a loftier life. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 May Seventh. 
 
 What love is to the heart, that music is to 
 the other arts and to man, for music is love 
 
 itself. 
 
 Weber. 
 
 Parepa Rosa was born May 7, 1830. 
 Beethoven's ninth symphony was played 
 first May 7, 1824. 
 
 Brahms was born May 7, 1833. 
 
 May Eighth. 
 
 As Beethoven regarded his art as some- 
 thing sacred, which he placed higher than all
 
 70 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 philosophy, so has a refined artist an innate 
 
 horror of all vulgar, frivolous, and effeminate 
 
 music. 
 
 Ambros. 
 
 May Ninth. 
 
 Music is evidently a necessity of our ex- 
 istence, and the more the taste for it is de- 
 veloped in its highest form the greater will be 
 our appreciation of the good and beautiful. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 Ciro E. Pinsuti was born May 9, 1829. 
 
 May Tenth. 
 
 It is only in original work that genius 
 
 ripens to maturity. 
 
 Richard Wagner. 
 
 The grand festival march was composed 
 by Wagner for the opening of the Centen- 
 nial Exhibition, Philadelphia, May 10, 1876.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 7 1 
 
 May Eleventh. 
 
 Technique should not seek to shine by 
 itself, and least of all give the impression of 
 being the performer's strongest point. 
 
 Chris Hani. 
 
 May Twelfth. 
 
 When technique, already faultless, is quali- 
 fied by refinement and poetry in touch and 
 taste, it ceases to be simply mechanical, and 
 
 becomes artistic. 
 
 Christiani. 
 
 Adolph Henselt was born May 12, 1814. 
 Massenet was born May 12, 1842. 
 
 May Thirteenth. 
 
 He who has not been a servant cannot 
 
 become a praiseworthy master. 
 
 Plato.
 
 f2 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Daniel Francois Auber died May 13, 
 1871. 
 
 John Sullivan Dwight was born May 13, 
 1813. 
 
 Arthur Sullivan was born May 13, 1842. 
 
 May Fourteenth. 
 
 You must gradually make acquaintance 
 
 with all the more important works of all the 
 
 important masters. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 fimile Prudent died May 14, 1863. 
 
 May Fifteenth. 
 
 Seek among your associates those who 
 
 know more than you. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Alexander Campbell died May 15, 1824. 
 John Wall Calcott died May 15, 1821. 
 Stephen Heller was born May 15, 181 5.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 73 
 
 May Sixteenth. 
 
 Consider it a monstrosity to alter or to 
 leave out anything, or to introduce any new- 
 fangled ornaments, in pieces by a good com- 
 poser. That is the greatest outrage you can 
 
 do to art. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 May Seventeenth. 
 
 Perfection even in a sphere the most for- 
 eign to us leaves its own stamp on the mind. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 Fanny Cecile Mendelssohn Hensel died 
 May 17, 1848. 
 
 May Eighteenth. 
 
 Beauty in music lies not alone in the 
 agreeable union of sweet tones, but also is
 
 74 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 largely couched in the symmetry of struc- 
 ture which we call rhythm and form. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 Karl Goldmark was born May 18, 1832. 
 
 May Nineteenth. 
 
 It is not enough for us to be musicians 
 only. We must be men and women of gen- 
 eral information, of liberal education — in 
 
 short, men and women of culture. 
 
 Gates. 
 
 May Twentieth. 
 
 I am inclined to think that only men of 
 genius understand each other fully and thor- 
 oughly. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Jean Henri Ravina was born May 20, 
 1818.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 75 
 
 May Ttventy-first. 
 
 Time goes on, and what sufficed for one 
 age appears to the next as a woeful short- 
 coming. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 Abbe* Giuseppe Baini died May 21, 1844. 
 
 May Twenty -second. 
 
 To Wagner at birth the gods gave two 
 gifts — a capacity to receive and to retain the 
 most various and the most intense impres- 
 sions, and, as he phrases it, " the ever intensi- 
 fied spirit that ever seeks new things." 
 
 Dannrenther. 
 
 Richard Wagner was born May 22, 1813. 
 
 The corner-stone of Wagner's theater was 
 laid May 22, 1872. 
 
 Domenico Corri died May 22, 1825.
 
 76 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 May Twenty -third. 
 
 An assiduous and persevering cultivation 
 ot a talent is as necessary as the talent itself. 
 
 Engel. 
 
 May Twenty -fourth. 
 
 Music requires, indeed, a code of rules just 
 as poesy requires a system of versification. 
 
 Thibaut. 
 
 Frederick Ernst died May 24, 1826. 
 
 May Twenty-fifth. 
 
 An enemy is always a keen searcher for 
 faults, while a friend seeks to find also our 
 good qualifications. The critic should be a 
 
 friend. 
 
 Merz.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 77 
 
 May Twenty-sixth. 
 
 Music produces like effects on the mind 
 
 as good medicine on the body. 
 
 Mirandola. 
 
 May Twenty-seventh. 
 Music requires inspiration. 
 
 Ghtck. 
 
 Nicoli Paganini died May 27, 1840. 
 Halevy was born May 27, 1799. 
 Joseph Joachim Raff was born May 27, 
 1822. 
 
 May Twenty -eighth. 
 
 As the study of geometry trains the mind 
 
 in the abstract, so the study of music trains 
 
 the emotions in the abstract. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 Thomas Moore was born May 28, 1779. 
 Luigi Boccherini died May 28, 1805.
 
 78 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 May Twenty -ninth. 
 
 I verily think, and am not ashamed to say, 
 that, next to divinity, no art is comparable 
 
 to music. 
 
 Martin Luther. 
 
 May Thirtieth. 
 
 It is cheering once more to meet an artist 
 [Moscheles] who is not a victim to envy, 
 
 jealousy, or miserable egotism. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 Ignaz Moscheles was born May 30, 1794. 
 
 May Tfiirty-first. 
 
 How in keeping is a musical love so warm 
 and a musical proficiency so general with a 
 nation which has given to the world a 
 Mozart, a Haydn, a Beethoven! 
 
 Trotter. 
 Franz Joseph Haydn died May 31, 1809.
 
 JUNE. 
 
 Music to the mind is as air to the body. 
 
 Plato.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 8 1 
 
 June First. 
 
 inspiration is after all the noblest attribute 
 
 in an artist. 
 
 Hanptynann. 
 
 Ignez Josef Pleyel was born June i, 1757. 
 
 June Second. 
 
 Music is architecture translated or trans- 
 posed from space into time ; for in music, 
 besides the deepest feeling, there reigns also 
 a rigorous, mathematical intelligence. 
 
 Hegel. 
 
 Manuel Garcia died June 2, 1832. 
 
 June Third. 
 
 The aim of all arts is the same, though 
 
 every one of them arrives at its own ends 
 
 by different roads. 
 
 Hitter.
 
 82 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Alexander George Bizet died June 3, 1875. 
 John Christmas Beckwith died June 3, 
 1809. 
 
 June Fourth. 
 
 Music, sphere-descended maid, 
 Friend of pleasure, Wisdom's aid! 
 
 Collins. 
 
 June Fifth. 
 
 There never lived a musician more Ger- 
 man than thou. England renders thee jus- 
 tice, France admires thee, but Germany alone 
 
 can love thee. 
 
 Richard Wagner (at Von Weber's grave). 
 
 Carl Maria von Weber died June 5, 1826. 
 
 June Sixth. 
 
 Why music was ordained ? 
 
 Was it not to refresh the mind of man
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 83 
 
 After his studies, or his usual pain ? 
 Then give me leave to read philosophy, 
 And while I pause serve in your harmony. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 Henri Vieuxtemps died June 6, 1881. 
 
 June Seventh. 
 
 What can wake the soul's strongest in- 
 stinct of another world like music ? 
 
 L. E. Landon. 
 
 June Eighth. 
 
 No art is more closely connected with the 
 inner life of man than music, whose magic 
 power steps in precisely at the point where 
 the positive expression of language fails. 
 
 Ritter.
 
 84 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Luigi Ricci was born June 8, 1805. 
 Giuseppe Antonio Guarnerius was born 
 June 8, 1683. 
 
 June Ninth. 
 
 Music is the essence of order, and leads 
 to all that is good, just, and beautiful. 
 
 Plato. 
 
 June Tenth. 
 
 The mind alone, whose every thought is 
 rhythm, can embody music, can comprehend 
 its mysteries, its divine inspirations, and can 
 speak to the senses of its intellectual revela- 
 tion. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 Charles Ainslie Barry was born June 10, 
 1830. 
 
 Frederick Michael Kalkbrenner died June 
 
 10, 1849.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 85 
 
 June Eleventh. 
 
 The purest music will produce the purest 
 
 sentiments. How important, then, that we 
 
 should study the best! 
 
 C. Merz. 
 
 Anna Mehlig was born June n, 1846. 
 
 June Twelfth. 
 
 " While the painter or sculptor must bor- 
 row the raiment for his idea from the human 
 form or the landscape, the musician is alone 
 with his imagination." 
 
 Angelica Catalini died June 12, 1846. 
 
 Edward Horsley died June 12, 1858. 
 
 June TJiirteenth. 
 
 Healthy criticism, such as is based on true 
 art-knowledge, is very healthful to the pro-
 
 86 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 gress of art ; yes, we may call it the very life 
 
 of art. 
 
 Merz. 
 
 Henry Charles Banister was born June 13, 
 1831. 
 
 June Fourteenth. 
 
 A fugue, sonata, or symphony, studied sci- 
 entifically, in all the relations of the separate 
 parts to one another and to the whole, de- 
 mands for its proper comprehension intellec- 
 tual powers and training. 
 
 Fillmore. 
 
 June Fifteenth. 
 
 The air we breathe penetrates even to the 
 inward man. A man's life and work are 
 greatly influenced by his surroundings. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Edward Grieg was born June 15, 1843. 
 
 Orlando di Lasso died June 15, 1594.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. S'J 
 
 June Sixteenth. 
 
 I need not tell you that music bears upon 
 its wings some of the sweetest and purest 
 pleasures of the passing hour, whether it 
 gushes forth from the human lips or from 
 the breath of old ^Eolus upon his throne. 
 
 Dr. John Hall. 
 
 Etelka Gerster was born June 16, 1857. 
 
 June Seventeenth. 
 
 O Music, thou who bringest the receding 
 waves of eternity nearer to the weary heart 
 of man as he stands upon the shore and longs 
 to cross over, art thou the evening breeze of 
 life or the morning air of the future? 
 
 Jean Paul Richter. 
 
 Henriette Sontag died June 17, 1854. 
 Charles Gounod was born June 17, 18 18.
 
 88 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 June Eighteenth. 
 
 It is in music, perhaps, that the soul most 
 nearly attains the great end for which, when 
 inspired by the poetic sentiment, it struggles 
 — the creation of supernal beauty. 
 
 Edgar Allen Poe. 
 
 Johann Andre died June 18, 1799. 
 David Popper was born June 18, 1846. 
 
 June Nineteenth. 
 
 Every note of Mozart's is a round in the 
 ladder of the spheres, by which he ascended 
 to the heaven of perfection. 
 
 Jean Paul Richter. 
 
 Walter Bache was born June 19, 1842. 
 Ferdinand David was born June 19, 18 10.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 89 
 
 June Twentieth. 
 
 Even in the most intricate compositions, 
 
 and particularly in those which express his 
 
 most mysterious feelings, the artist should 
 
 employ simple form in order to render his 
 
 ideas clear and intelligible. 
 
 Stephen Heller. 
 
 June Twenty-first. 
 
 All music is an idealization of the natural 
 
 language of passion. 
 
 Herbert Spencer. 
 
 Charles Frederick Curschmann was born 
 June 21, 1805. 
 
 June Twenty-second. 
 
 My sphere extends to regions which to the 
 
 poet and painter are not easily accessible. 
 
 Beethoven.
 
 go THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 June Twenty -third. 
 
 Chopin gave a concert in London June 
 23, 1848. 
 
 After the hammer and tongs in the piano 
 to which we have of late years been accus- 
 tomed, the delicacy of Chopin's touch is de- 
 licious to the ear. 
 
 Choreley's criticism. 
 
 Carl Reinecke was born June 23, 1824. 
 
 June Twenty -fourth. 
 
 The esthetic principle is the same in every 
 
 art, only the material differs. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Mehul was born June 24, 1763. 
 
 Jtine Twenty-fifth. 
 
 Mendelssohn's " Hymn of Praise " was 
 performed for the first time on the 25th of
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 9 1 
 
 June at the celebration of the fourth cente- 
 nary of printing. 
 
 June Twenty -sixth. 
 
 Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes 
 
 a sort of spirit, and never dies. 
 
 Bulwer. 
 
 June Twenty-seventh. 
 
 He who sets limits to himself will always 
 
 be expected to remain within them. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 John Pyke Hullah was born June 27, 
 1812. 
 
 August Wilhelm Ambros died June 27, 
 1876. 
 
 June Twenty -eighth. 
 
 The works of those who have stood the 
 test of ages have a claim to that respect
 
 92 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 and veneration to which no modern can 
 
 pretend. 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 Robert Franz was born June 28, 181 5. 
 Josef Joachim was born June 28, 1831. 
 
 June Twenty -ninth. 
 
 The three requisites of a good singer are 
 natural talent, artistic training, and practice. 
 
 Praetorius. 
 
 J. Campanini was born June 29, 1846. 
 
 June Thirtieth. 
 
 A singer who is not able to recite his part 
 according to the intention of the poet can- 
 not possibly sing it according to the inten- 
 tion of the composer. 
 
 Wagner. 
 
 Edward John Hopkins was born June 30, 
 1818.
 
 JULY. 
 
 Exalt art, and art will elevate you. 
 
 Booth.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 95 
 
 July First. 
 
 Listen attentively to all folk-songs : these 
 
 are a treasure of lovely melodies, and will 
 
 teach you the characteristics of different 
 
 nations. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 July Second. 
 
 Simplicity, truth, and naturalness are the 
 great principles of the beautiful in all pro- 
 ductions of art. 
 
 Glitck. 
 
 Christoph Willibald von Gluck was born 
 July 2, 1 7 14. 
 
 July Third. 
 
 Merely to have learned how to learn is a 
 
 great advance. 
 
 Menander. 
 
 Franz Bendel died July 3, 1874.
 
 96 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 July Fourth. 
 
 If an artist does not himself feel what is 
 great, how can he succeed in making me 
 
 feel it ? 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 William Byrd died July 4, 1623. 
 
 July Fifth. 
 
 Art in general is that magic instrumental- 
 ity by which man's mind reveals to man's 
 senses that great mystery, the beautiful. 
 
 Ritter. 
 
 William Crotch was born July 5, 1775. 
 
 July Sixth. 
 
 Genius is the most beautiful gift with which 
 nature favors mankind from time to time.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 97 
 
 Through it we are allowed to enjoy what is 
 most sublime — self-oblivion in a loftier life. 
 
 F. Hiller. 
 
 July Seventh. 
 
 Before a man can produce anything great, 
 
 he must understand the means by which he 
 
 has to produce it. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 July Eighth. 
 
 On the 8th of July, 1791, the degree of 
 Doctor of Music was conferred on Haydn 
 by the University of Oxford. 
 
 Ye peddlers in art, do ye not sink into 
 the earth when ye are reminded of the words 
 uttered by Beethoven on his dying-bed : " I 
 believe I am yet but at the beginning " ? 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Robert Schumann was born July 8, 1810.
 
 98 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 July Ninth. 
 
 Mannerism is a false idealism, a personi- 
 fied ideal ; for this reason it rarely lacks a 
 
 certain intellectuality. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 July Tenth. 
 
 Tis God gives skill, 
 
 But not without men's hands: he could 
 
 not make 
 
 Antonio Stradivari's violins 
 
 Without Antonio. 
 
 George ElioVs Stradivarius. 
 
 Wieniawski was born July 10, 1835. 
 
 July Eleventh. 
 
 That composer is greatest who most clearly 
 discerns the true ends and capabilities of his
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 99 
 
 art ; who aims to give worthy expression to 
 
 the noblest emotional experience. 
 
 Fillmore. 
 
 July Twelfth. 
 
 I am too like the pedant who, seeing a 
 
 virtuoso quietly continue playing when his 
 
 music had fallen from his desk, cried out in 
 
 hot excitement, " Look, look, that is indeed 
 
 art ! He knows it by heart ! " 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Jean Ancot died July 12, 1848. 
 
 July Thirteenth. 
 
 The mind which is not gifted with the 
 
 powers of imagination may be fitted for 
 
 other studies than music, but in the arts it 
 
 will always be dull and inert. 
 
 Merz.
 
 IOO THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 July Fourteenth. 
 
 Schubert wrote for silence : half his work 
 Lay like a frozen Rhine till summer came, 
 That warmed the grass above him. Even so ! 
 His music lives now with a mighty youth. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 July Fifteenth. 
 
 She longed for music that was natural ; 
 
 Physicians said it was medicinal ! 
 
 The humors might be schooled by true con- 
 sent 
 Of a fine tenor and fine instrument. . 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 Carlo Farinelli died July 15, 1782. 
 Carl Czerny died July 15, 1857. 
 John Barnett was born July 15, 1802.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK IOI 
 
 July Sixteenth. 
 
 A certain music never known before 
 Here lulled the pensive, melancholy mind. 
 
 Thomson- 
 
 Luigi Arditi was born July 16, 1825. 
 
 July Seventeenth. 
 
 What shines and glitters has its birth 
 
 But for the present hour alone ; 
 
 The Real — the thing of truth and worth — 
 
 To all posterity goes down. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 July Eighteenth. 
 
 The quality which Chopin most valued in 
 the player was a sympathetic touch. 
 
 Charles Williby.
 
 102 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Pauline Viardot Garcia was born July 18, 
 1821. 
 
 July Nineteenth. 
 
 Lose no opportunity of playing music- 
 duos, trios, etc. — with others. This will make 
 your playing broader and more flowing. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Ferdinand David died July 19, 1873. 
 
 July Twentieth. 
 
 One of the principal elements of genius is 
 strength of will to control the mind and com- 
 mand the mental energies. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 July Twenty-first. 
 
 The laws of morality are also the laws of 
 art. 
 
 Schumann.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I 03 
 
 Johann Nepomuk Miilzel died July 21, 
 1838, at sea, on his way to the United States. 
 Robert Burns died July 21, 1796. 
 
 July Twenty-second. 
 
 The aim of all arts is the same, though 
 
 every one of them arrives at its own end by 
 
 different roads. 
 
 Ritter. 
 
 July Twenty-third. 
 
 Every artist of genius breathes into his 
 work an unexpressed idea, which speaks to 
 our feelings even before it can be defined. 
 
 F. Liszt. 
 
 July Twenty -fourth. 
 
 We are often made to feel with a shivering 
 delight that from an earthly harp are stricken
 
 104 
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 notes which cannot have been unfamiliar to 
 
 the angels. 
 
 Edgar Allen Poc. 
 
 Felix Godefroid was born July 24, 181 8. 
 Adolph Charles Adam was born July 24, 
 1803. 
 
 July Twenty-fifth. 
 
 Without imagination no perfection in art 
 
 is possible. 
 
 Merz. 
 
 Ferdinand Beyer was born July 25, 1803. 
 Horton Claridge Allison was born July 
 25, 1846. 
 
 July Twenty-sixth. 
 
 The human voice is really the foundation 
 of all music ; and whatever the development 
 of the art, whatever the boldest combinations
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 05 
 
 of a composer or the most brilliant execution 
 of a virtuoso, in the end they must always 
 return to the standard set by vocal music. 
 
 Wagner. 
 
 " Parsifal " was first performed July 26, 
 1882. 
 John Field was born July 26, 1782. 
 
 July Twenty -seventh. 
 
 Music doth not only expel the greatest 
 griefs, but it doth extenuate fears and furies, 
 appeaseth cruelty, abateth heaviness, and to 
 such as are watchful it causeth great rest. 
 
 Cassiodorus. 
 
 George Onslow was born July 27, 1784. 
 
 July Twenty -eighth. 
 
 The concert of musicians at a banquet is 
 as a carbuncle set in gold ; and as the signet
 
 106 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 of an emerald well trimmed with gold, so is 
 the melody of music at a pleasant banquet. 
 
 Epictetus. 
 
 Giulietta Grisi was born July 28, 181 1. 
 
 July Twenty-ninth. 
 
 Be sure the works of mighty men, 
 
 The good, the faithful, the sublime, 
 
 Stored in the gallery of Time, 
 
 Repose awhile — to wake again. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 Robert Schumann died July 29, 1856. 
 
 July Thirtieth. 
 
 A deeper insight into Bach's works cannot 
 fail to further the progress of art. 
 
 Moscheles. 
 
 Johann Sebastian Bach died July 30, 1750.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 107 
 
 July Thirty-first. 
 
 Liszt will certainly be known in the history 
 of pianoforte music as the greatest virtuoso 
 
 of his time. 
 
 Fillmore. 
 
 Franz Liszt died July 31, 1886. 
 John Bishop was born July 31, 181 7.
 
 AUGUST. 
 
 All deep things are song. 
 
 Carlyle.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. Ill 
 
 August First. 
 
 Do not give Beethoven to the children ; 
 
 strengthen them with Mozart, brimming with 
 
 rich vitality. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Elizabeth Randies, the little Cambrian 
 prodigy, was born August i, 1800. 
 
 August Second. 
 
 The most talented composers of the pres- 
 ent day are pianists — a fact that has been 
 
 observed during former epochs. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Jules Schulhoff was born August 2, 1825.
 
 112 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 August Tfiird. 
 
 The one thing you have to do is to make 
 
 a clear-voiced little instrument of yourself, 
 
 which other people can depend upon entirely 
 
 for the note wanted. 
 
 Ruskin. 
 
 Christine Nilssen was born August 3, 1843. 
 
 August Fourth. 
 
 Music resembles poetry : in each 
 Are nameless graces which no methods teach, 
 And which a master hand alone can reach. 
 
 Pope. 
 
 Francis Edward Bache died August 4, 
 1858. 
 
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Con- 
 stanze Weber were married August 4, 1782.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 113 
 
 August Fifth. 
 
 There is no feeling, perhaps, except the 
 extremes of fear and grief, that does not find 
 relief in music, that does not make a man 
 
 sing or play better. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 Ambrose Thomas was born August 5, 
 1811. 
 
 Robert Lucas de Pearsall died August 5, 
 1856. 
 
 August Sixth. 
 
 Natural gift may produce a poet, but it 
 does not make a musician. The highest 
 perfection is reached only by untiring prac- 
 tice and almost ceaseless work. 
 
 F. Brendel.
 
 114 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 August Seventh. 
 
 That music is the usefulest which makes 
 the best words most beautiful, which en- 
 chants them in our memory, each with its 
 own glory of sound, and which applies them 
 closest to the heart at the moment we need 
 
 them. 
 
 Ruskin. 
 
 Carl Formes was born August 7, 1818. 
 
 August Eighth. 
 
 Do you not recall 
 
 How the words fitted to the melody — 
 A carol joyous as it spread its wings, 
 And falling into minors at its close ? 
 
 Francis Howard Williams.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 15 
 
 August Ninth. 
 
 Dare talent permit itself to take the same 
 liberties as genius ? Yes ; but the former 
 will perish where the latter triumphs. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 August Tenth. 
 
 "Without haste, without rest," says 
 
 Goethe. This should be the motto of every 
 
 aspirant for musical honors. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 August Eleventh. 
 
 Music is love ; it springs from religion and 
 
 leads to religion. 
 
 Hanslick. 
 
 Catherine Hayes died August n, 1861.
 
 [l6 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 August Twelfth. 
 
 Were it not for music we might in these 
 
 days say the beautiful is dead. 
 
 D 1 Israeli. 
 
 Monument erected to Beethoven at Bonn, 
 August 12, 1845. 
 
 Niccolo Amati died August 12, 1684. 
 
 Joseph Barnby was born August 12, 1838. 
 
 The Rev. Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley was born 
 August 12, 1825. 
 
 August Thirteenth. 
 
 Wouldst thou know if a people be well 
 governed, if its laws be good or bad, exam- 
 ine the music it practises. 
 
 Confucius. 
 
 William Thomas Best was born August 
 13, 1826.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I I 7 
 
 August Fourteenth. 
 
 Music is designed for the masses ; it is 
 one of the principal means, outside of Chris- 
 tianity, to refine the masses. 
 
 Merz. 
 
 William Croft died August 14, 1727. 
 
 August Fifteenth. 
 
 The teacher is the mediator between the 
 
 pure and high art, as shown in the works of 
 
 great masters, and between the young and 
 
 the coming generation. 
 
 Louis Kohler. 
 
 Johann Nepomuk Malzel was born August 
 
 August Sixteenth. 
 
 Thoroughness is better than cheap ap- 
 plause, and inexhaustible patience that works
 
 Il8 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 on and bides its time shall not fail of its re- 
 ward. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 Heinrich Marschner was born August 16, 
 1795- 
 
 August Seventeenth. 
 
 There are many minds that only work 
 effectively when they do so under compul- 
 sion. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 August Eighteenth. 
 
 Art and composition tolerate no conven- 
 tional fetters ; mind and soul soar above 
 
 them. 
 
 Joseph Haydn. 
 
 Benjamin Godard was born August 18, 
 1849. 
 Ole Bull died August 18, 1880.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 19 
 
 August Nineteenth. 
 
 Three trifles are essential for a good piano 
 or singing teacher: the finest feeling, the 
 deepest feeling, the most delicate ear, and 
 in addition the requisite knowledge, energy, 
 
 and some practice. 
 
 Friedrich Wieck. 
 
 Niccold Porpora was born August 1 9, 1 686. 
 
 August Twentieth. 
 
 Whatever may be the permanent signifi- 
 cance of Mendelssohn's best work, he was, 
 as man, musician, conductor, pianist, organ- 
 ist, and composer, one of the most powerful 
 influences in molding the musical thoughts 
 and shaping the musical tendencies of the 
 second and third quarters of this century. 
 
 Fillmore.
 
 120 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 August Twenty-first. 
 
 There is but one class of men who con- 
 demn music, and those are fanatics, and 
 there is only one order of beings, according 
 to Luther, who hate it, and those are devils. 
 
 Mower. 
 
 August Twenty-second. 
 
 Art ! Who can say that he fathoms it ? 
 
 Who is there capable of discussing the nature 
 
 of this great goddess ? 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 August Twenty -third. 
 
 One begins by resolving to know every- 
 thing ; soon he despairs of knowing any- 
 thing ; at last he is glad to know something. 
 
 Van Cleve.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 121 
 
 Emanuel Aguilar was born August 23, 
 1824. 
 
 Moritz Moskowski was born August 23, 
 1854. 
 
 August Twenty -fourth. 
 
 It is the duty of every composer to make 
 himself familiar with all the works of the 
 older and modern poets, in order to choose 
 for his vocal music the best and most ade- 
 quate words. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 Karl Friedrich Curschmann died August 
 24, 1841. 
 
 August Twenty '-fifth. 
 
 Mannerism is displeasing in the original, 
 to say nothing of the same faults in copyists. 
 
 Schumann.
 
 122 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 August Twenty -sixth. 
 
 Art is a great fugue into which the differ- 
 ent individualities and nationalities step and 
 become resolved, like the different subjects, 
 
 one after another. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 August Twenty-seventh. 
 
 The most difficult art known to art is to 
 
 teach art. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 Theresa Parodi was born August 27, 1827. 
 Josquin Des Pres died August 27, 1521. 
 
 August Twenty-eighth. 
 
 I willingly renounce the world, which has 
 no presentiment that music is a higher reve- 
 lation than all their wisdom and philosophy. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 Niccolo Jomonelli died August 28, 1769.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I 23 
 
 August Twenty-ninth. 
 
 We see that several airs and tunes do 
 please several nations and persons, accord- 
 ing to the sympathy they have with their 
 
 spirits. 
 
 Lord Bacon. 
 
 August Thirtieth. 
 
 Reverence the old, but meet the new also 
 
 with a warm heart. Cherish no prejudice 
 
 against names unknown to you. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 August Thirty-first. 
 
 Art is not for the end of getting riches. 
 
 Only become a greater and a greater artist ; 
 
 the rest will come of itself. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Francois Andre Philidor died August 31, 
 1729.
 
 SEPTEMBER. 
 
 Melody is, and ever will be, the v ery jlcnver of music. 
 
 Ambros.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I 27 
 
 September First. 
 
 Exercise your imagination so that you 
 may acquire the power of remembering not 
 only the melody of a composition, but also 
 the harmonies which accompany it. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 September Second. 
 
 Fancy and feeling go naturally together, 
 
 and, indeed, ought to be united; but such 
 
 union is rare, and is one of the surest signs 
 
 of genius. 
 
 Patter. 
 
 September Third. 
 
 Do not take up the violin unless you mean 
 
 to work hard at it. Any other instrument 
 
 may be more safely trifled with. 
 
 Haweis. 
 
 Niccolo Amati was born at Cremona, Sep- 
 tember 3, 1596.
 
 128 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 September Fourth. 
 
 Whatever speculative knowledge is neces- 
 sary for the artist is equally so for the con- 
 noisseur. 
 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 Auguste Emil Wilhelmj was born Septem- 
 ber 4, 1845. 
 
 September Fifth. 
 
 * 
 
 The musician cannot transcribe Nature, 
 but he can tell us what he felt at her touch. 
 
 Barbedetti. 
 
 Jacob Meyerbeer was born September 5, 
 1794. 
 
 September Sixth. 
 
 Contrast, not uniformity, is a condition of 
 
 every work of art. 
 
 Christiani.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 129 
 
 Anton Diabelli was born September 6, 
 1781. 
 
 September Seventh. 
 
 I hold that every composer has a merit of 
 
 his own which is determined by the intrinsic 
 
 value of his works. 
 
 C. P. E. Bach. 
 
 Francois Andre Philidor was born Sep- 
 tember 7, 1726. 
 
 September Eighth. 
 
 So that genius exists it matters little how 
 
 it appears — whether in the depths, as with 
 
 Bach, or in the heights, as with Mozart, or 
 
 in the depths and on the heights at once, as 
 
 with Beethoven. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Antonin Dvorak was born September 8, 
 1841.
 
 130 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 September Ninth. 
 
 The first and most indispensable quality 
 of any artist is to feel respect for great men, 
 and to bow down in spirit before them ; to 
 recognize their merits, and not to endeavor 
 to extinguish their great flame in order that 
 his own feeble rushlight may burn a little 
 brighter. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 September Tenth. 
 
 It is by pictures and music, by art and 
 song and symbolic representations, that all 
 nations have been educated in their adoles- 
 cence. 
 
 Charles Kings ley. 
 
 September Eleventh. 
 
 They are never alone that are accom- 
 panied by noble thoughts. 
 
 Sir Philip Sidney.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 131 
 
 Niccolo Jomelli was born September n, 
 1714. 
 
 September Twelfth. 
 Beauty is visible harmony. 
 
 Aristotle. 
 
 Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck were 
 married September 12, 1840. 
 
 Theodore Kullak was born September 12, 
 1818. 
 
 Jean Philip Rameau died September 12, 
 1764. 
 
 September Thirteenth. 
 
 It is music's lofty mission to shed light on 
 
 the depths of the human heart. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Clara Wieck was born September 13, 
 i8iq.
 
 IJ2 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 September Fourteenth. 
 
 An artist will be more or less inspired ac- 
 cording to how his thoughts correspond and 
 awaken in him his own sensitiveness. 
 
 La Vallee. 
 
 Maria Salvador Cherubini was born Sep- 
 tember 14, 1760. 
 
 Benjamin Cooke died September 14, 1793. 
 
 September Fifteenth. 
 
 The Realistic is the truth, a close copy of 
 
 nature. The Ideal is what a man wishes 
 
 were true. 
 
 Van Cleve. 
 
 Pierre Marie Baillot died September 15, 
 1842.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 133 
 
 September Sixteenth. 
 
 It is an indisputable fact that in the union 
 of poetry and music the stronger and more 
 immediate effect is produced by the latter. 
 
 Ferdinand Hi Her. 
 
 Ernest Henri Boulanger was born Sep- 
 tember 16, 181 5. 
 
 September Seventeenth. 
 
 For Orpheus' lute was strong with poets' 
 
 sinews, 
 Whose golden touch could soften steel and 
 
 stones. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 Henri Berton was born September 17, 
 1767.
 
 134 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 September Eighteenth. 
 
 Thus did Jubal to his race reveal 
 
 Music, their larger soul, where woe and weal, 
 
 Filling the resonant chords, the song, the 
 
 dance, 
 Moved with a wider- winged utterance. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 September Nineteenth. 
 
 Music with her silver sound 
 With speedy help doth lend redress. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 James Bartlemann was born September 
 19, 1769. 
 
 Bartolommeo Campagnoli was born Sep- 
 tember 19, 1 75 1.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 135 
 
 September Twentieth. 
 
 It hath been anciently held and observed 
 that the sense of hearing and the kinds of 
 music have most operation upon manners. 
 
 Lord Bacon. 
 
 September Twenty-first. 
 
 Give me the best piano in Europe, and 
 listeners who understand nothing and who 
 do not sympathize with me in what I am 
 doing — I no longer feel any pleasure. 
 
 Mozart. 
 
 Septe?nber Twenty -second. 
 
 Is not the precept of a musician to fall 
 from a discord or harsh accord alike true in 
 affection ? Is not the delight of quavering
 
 136 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 upon a stop in music the same with the play- 
 ing of light upon the water ? 
 
 Lord Bacon. 
 
 September Twenty-third. 
 
 Music is God's best gift to man, the only 
 art of heaven given to earth, the only art of 
 
 earth we take to heaven. 
 
 Landor. 
 
 C6cile Mendelssohn died September 23, 
 
 1853- 
 
 Maria Felicita Malibran died September 
 
 23, 1836. 
 
 Vincenzo Bellini died September 23, 1835. 
 
 September Twenty -fourth 
 
 There are few artists whom I respect more 
 than a first-class amateur, and there are few 
 that I respect less than a second-rate one. 
 
 Mendelssohn.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 37 
 
 September Twenty-fifth. 
 
 Among the many essential qualifications of 
 the musician the grandest of all is a poetic 
 imagination. It reveals to him many beauti- 
 ful things that elude the casual observer. 
 
 Lovejoy. 
 
 Jean Philip Rameau was born September 
 25, 1683. 
 
 Gaetano Donizetti was born September 
 25, 1798. 
 
 September Twe?ity -sixth. 
 
 With varied fire 
 He roused the trumpet and the martial fife, 
 Or bade the lute sweet tenderness inspire. 
 
 Thomson.
 
 138 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 September Twenty -seventh. 
 
 But few artists approach the perfection 
 which is needed in unadorned form or sim- 
 ple tune. 
 
 Christiani. 
 
 Hermann Wollenhaupt was born Septem- 
 ber 27, 1827. 
 
 September Twenty -eighth. 
 
 To the true artist music should be a ne- 
 cessity, and not merely an occupation. He 
 should not manufacture music ; he should 
 
 live in it. 
 
 Robert Fjanz. 
 
 September Twenty-ninth. 
 
 True virtuosity gives us something more 
 than mere flexibility and execution. A man 
 may mirror his own nature in his playing. 
 
 Schumann.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 139 
 
 September Thirtieth. 
 
 We live in this world in order always to 
 learn industriously, and to enlighten each 
 other by means of discussion, and to strive 
 vigorously to promote the progress of sci- 
 ence and the fine arts. 
 
 Mozart. 
 
 Mozart's " Magic Flute " performed first 
 September 30, 1791.
 
 OCTOBER. 
 
 Music is a beautiful and glorious gift of God. 
 
 Praetorius.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 143 
 
 October First. 
 
 Every man is bound to cultivate his high- 
 est gifts. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Pierre Marie Baillot was born October i, 
 1771. 
 
 Henri Bertini died October i, 1876. 
 John Blow died October 1, 1708. 
 
 October Second. 
 
 Unless you are suffused with beauty, truth, 
 wisdom, goodness, and love, abandon the hope 
 that the ages will accept you as an artist. 
 
 Sidney Lanier. 
 
 October TJiird. 
 
 Freedom and progress are our true aim 
 in the world of art, just as in the great crea- 
 tion at large. 
 
 Beethoven.
 
 144 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Waldemar Bargiel was born October 3, 
 1828. 
 
 October Fourth. 
 
 A musician's highest aim is to apply his 
 
 powers to religious music. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Fanny Persiani was born October 4, 181 8. 
 
 Stephen Albert Emory was born October 
 4, 1 84 1. 
 
 Jacob Blumenthal was born October 4, 
 1829. 
 
 October Fifth. 
 
 What is Beethoven's genius until Bee- 
 thoven has become a scientific man to the 
 extent of knowing the science of musical 
 form, of orchestration, and of harmony ? 
 
 Sidney Lanier.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 45 
 
 October Sixth. 
 
 Jenny Lind sang Mendelssohn's " Hear 
 
 my Prayer " so exquisitely that none who 
 
 heard it can ever forget the impression she 
 
 created. 
 
 Moscheles. 
 
 Jenny Lind was born October 6, 1820. 
 Schroeder-Devrient was born October 6, 
 1805. 
 
 October Seventh. 
 
 Musical art recognizes two kinds of music 
 — artistic music, the production of the artist, 
 and national music, the production of the 
 people. If we liken music to flowers the 
 former would be the cultivated, the latter 
 the wild flowers. 
 
 Chrlstiani.
 
 146 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 October Eighth. 
 
 Counterpoint is related to mathematics. 
 
 A fool with patience becomes a respectable 
 
 savant in that, but for the part of genius, 
 
 melody, it has no rules. 
 
 De Stendhal. 
 
 Francois Adrien Boildieu died October 8, 
 1834. 
 
 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst died October 8, 
 1865. 
 
 October Ninth. 
 
 The greater the advances we make in art 
 the less we are satisfied with our works of 
 
 an early date. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 Francois Joseph Campbell died October 
 9, 1834.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 *47 
 
 Saint-Saens was born October 9, 1835. 
 Giuseppe Verdi was born October 9, 18 14. 
 
 October Tenth. 
 
 Playing in public from memory, whether 
 it be done out of charlatanism or daring, 
 is always a proof of uncommon musical 
 
 powers. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 October Eleventh. 
 
 Acquire an early knowledge of directing, 
 watch good directors closely, and form a 
 habit of directing with them silently and to 
 yourself. This brings clearness into you. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Theodore Thomas was born October 11,
 
 148 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 October Twelfth. 
 
 Melody is the golden thread running 
 through the maze of tones, by which the ear 
 is guided and the heart reached. 
 
 Christiani. 
 
 John L. Hatton was born October 12, 
 1809. 
 
 October Thirteenth. 
 
 In the abstract we may regard melody as 
 the moving element ; harmony, on the other 
 hand, as the stable element in music. 
 
 Moritz Hauptmann. 
 
 Moritz Hauptmann was born October 13, 
 1792. 
 
 October Fourteenth. 
 
 The worth of art appears most eminent in 
 music, since it requires no material, no sub-
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 149 
 
 ject-matter, whose effect must be deducted ; 
 
 it is wholly form and power, and it raises 
 
 and ennobles whatever it expresses. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 October Fifteenth. 
 
 The artist never seeks to represent the 
 
 positive truth, but the idealized image of 
 
 the truth. 
 
 Bulwer. 
 
 William Alexander Barrett was born Octo- 
 ber 15, 1836. 
 
 Madame Caradori Allan died October 15, 
 1865. 
 
 Alexander Dreyschock was born October 
 15, 1818. 
 
 October Six teen th. 
 
 The older I become, so much the more 
 clearly do I perceive how important it is
 
 150 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 first to learn, and then to form opinions — 
 
 not the latter before the former ; also not 
 
 both at once. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 John Francis Barnett was born October 
 16, 1837. 
 
 October Seventeenth. 
 
 In every piece we find, in his own refined 
 hand, written in pearls : " This is by Fred- 
 erick Chopin." We recognize him even in 
 his pauses, and by his impetuous respiration. 
 He is the boldest, the proudest poet soul of 
 
 to-day. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Frederick Chopin died October 17, 1848. 
 Johann Nepomuk Hummel died October 
 
 *7> i»37-
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 151 
 
 October Eighteenth. 
 
 All that is mortal and perishable will 
 gradually weary us ; truth alone will endure. 
 
 Merz. 
 
 Etienne Henri Mehul died October 18, 
 1817. 
 
 October Nineteenth. 
 
 If the composer can only move the imag- 
 inative power of his hearers, and call forth 
 some one image, some one thought — it mat- 
 ters not what — he has attained his object. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 October Twentieth. 
 
 Many critics mistake the rules of the the- 
 ory of music for the rules by which to criti- 
 cize the beautiful in it. 
 
 Merz.
 
 152 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 October Twenty-first. 
 
 The sole aim of the composer should be 
 
 the progress of his art. 
 
 Gluck. 
 
 Abb6 Giuseppe Baini was born October 
 
 «> I 775- 
 
 Alexander Choron was born October 21, 
 
 1772. 
 
 Michael William Balfe died October 21, 
 
 1870. 
 
 October Twenty -second. 
 
 No amount of adverse criticism can de- 
 tract in any way from the intrinsic value of 
 
 a composition. 
 
 Lndwig Spohr. 
 
 Ludwig Spohr died October 22, 1859. 
 Jean Ancot was born October 22, 1779. 
 Franz Liszt was born October 22, 181 1.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I 53 
 
 Leopold Damrosch was born October 22, 
 1832. 
 
 October Tiventy-third. 
 
 Just as a writer who speaks to the heart 
 is sure to please, so is a composer who gives 
 the player something which he cannot only 
 play and enjoy himself, but make others en- 
 joy too. 
 
 Zelter. 
 
 October Twenty -fourth. 
 
 In many respects Wagner resembles Na- 
 poleon III. Like him he always had faith 
 in his work, notwithstanding the most ad- 
 verse circumstances. All the means which 
 could help him toward the goal of his as- 
 pirations he has employed with an energy 
 which no musician has possessed before him 
 
 to the same degree. 
 
 Ferdinand Hitler.
 
 154 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Ferdinand Hiller was born October 24, 
 1811. 
 Alfred James Eyre was born October 24, 
 
 October Twenty -fifth. 
 
 Every artist of genius breathes into his 
 work an unexpressed idea which speaks to 
 our feelings even before it can be defined. 
 
 Liszt. 
 
 Ernest Sivori was born October 25, 18 15. 
 Alexandre Georges Bizet was born Octo- 
 ber 25, 1838. 
 
 October Twenty-sixth. 
 
 If our art is not to sink entirely to the 
 
 level of trade, commerce, and fashion, the 
 
 training for it must be complete, intelligent, 
 
 and really artistic. 
 
 Merz.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 155 
 
 Karl Ferdinand Becker died October 26, 
 1877. 
 
 Henry Smart was born October 26, 181 3. 
 
 October Twenty-seventh. 
 
 Literature is the highest of the arts, be- 
 cause its power of expression is the greatest. 
 The effect of music is more intense at a 
 given moment, but its range is not so wide, 
 
 nor its effect so enduring. 
 
 Sill. 
 
 Niccold Paganini was born October 27, 
 1785- 
 
 October Twenty -eighth. 
 
 The fundamental evil in music is the 
 necessity of reproduction of its artistic crea- 
 tions by performance. Were it as easy to 
 learn to read music as words, the sonatas of
 
 156 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Beethoven would have the popularity of the 
 
 poems of Schiller. 
 
 Ferdinand Hiller. 
 
 Henri Bertini was born October 28, 1798. 
 
 October Twenty-ninth. 
 
 Work alone praises or condemns its mas- 
 ters, and I therefore measure every one by 
 
 that standard. 
 
 Johann Sebastian Bach. 
 
 October Thirtieth. 
 
 The pleasure which the work of a musi- 
 cian affords you is his very life-blood; the 
 trouble it has cost him you do not know. 
 He gives you his very best : the essence of 
 his life, the outflow of his genius, and yet 
 you grudge him a simple wreath of flowers. 
 
 Schumann.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I 57 
 
 October Thirty-first. 
 
 The happiest genius will hardly succeed 
 by nature and instinct alone in rising to the 
 sublime. Art is art ; he who has not thought 
 it out has no right to call himself an artist. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 Richard Edwards died October 31, 1566. 
 Rudolph Willmers was born October 31, 
 1821.
 
 NOVEMBER. 
 
 Under heaven there is but one thing we ought to 
 
 bow to — genius ; and only one thing before which we 
 
 ought to kneel — goodness. 
 
 Victor Hugo.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 161 
 
 November First. 
 
 All the arts flow from the same source. 
 It is the idea embodied in a work of art, 
 and not the mode of enunciating it, that de- 
 termines its rank in the scale of beauty. 
 
 Franz Liszt. 
 
 Gioacchimo Rossini died November i, 
 1868. 
 
 November Second. 
 
 Jenny Lind's true spell consisted, in my 
 opinion, in three things : in the perfection 
 of her technical culture — perfection to an 
 extent that caused the most finished art to 
 appear the most finished nature. 
 
 Elise Polko. 
 
 Jenny Lind died November 2, 1887.
 
 [62 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 November Third. 
 
 November 3, 1836: Mendelssohn played 
 Beethoven's " G Major Concerto " to-day 
 with a perfection and power that carried 
 everything before it. 
 
 — From Henrietta Voighfs Diary. 
 
 Vincenzo Bellini was born November 3, 
 1802. 
 
 November Fourth. 
 
 It is a charming test of Mendelssohn's 
 
 heart that all the friendships he ever formed 
 
 endured to the end of his life. 
 
 Elise Polko. 
 
 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy died Novem- 
 ber 4, 1847.
 
 THE. MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 163 
 
 November Fifth. 
 
 The soul that becomes discouraged in the 
 
 presence of real greatness will never become 
 
 thoroughly artistic. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 November Sixth. 
 
 Paderewski is an artist by the grace of 
 God, a phenomenal and inspired player. 
 
 William Mason. 
 
 Ignaz Paderewski was born November 6, 
 i860. 
 
 Bartolommeo Campagnoli died November 
 6, 1827. 
 
 November Seventh. 
 
 I now feel more vividly than ever what a 
 heavenly calling art is, and for this also I
 
 164 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 have to thank my parents. Just when all 
 else which ought to interest the mind appears 
 so repugnant and empty, the smallest real 
 service to art lays hold of your inmost 
 thoughts, leading you so far away from 
 town and country, and from earth itself, 
 that it is, indeed, a blessing sent by God. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 November Eighth. 
 
 Freedom of spirit and expression are not 
 
 possible but with nimbleness and sureness of 
 
 the fingers. 
 
 Von Weber. 
 
 November Ninth. 
 
 Among the various things which are suit- 
 able for man's recreation and pleasure, music 
 is the first, and leads us to the belief that it 
 is a gift of God set apart for this purpose. 
 
 Calvin.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 165 
 
 November Tenth. 
 
 And ever against eating cares 
 
 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 
 
 Married to immortal verse 
 
 Such as the melting soul may pierce. 
 
 Untwisting all the chains that tie 
 
 The hidden soul of harmony. 
 
 Milton. 
 
 November Eleventh. 
 
 In the works of Beethoven are to be found 
 gigantic and sublime formula; ; those of 
 Haydn contain a melodic sweetness mixed 
 with artifices which are always agreeable ; 
 while Mozart showed his unequaled genius 
 in everything. I can only compare them 
 to Michael Angelo, Guido, and Raphael. 
 
 Pacini.
 
 1 66 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 November Twelfth. 
 
 Musical criticism, and criticism generally, 
 is, with rare exceptions, no more than the ex- 
 pression of a liking or disliking which has 
 its origin in temperament, habit, and educa- 
 tion. 
 
 Niecks. 
 
 November Thirteenth. 
 
 The style of a writer is almost always the 
 faithful representative of his mind. There- 
 fore, if any man wishes to write a clear style 
 let him begin by making his thoughts clear, 
 and if any would write a noble style let him 
 
 first possess a noble soul. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 Louis Jacques Lefebvre W61y was born 
 November 13, 181 7.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 167 
 
 November Fourteenth. 
 
 Always play as if a master heard you. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Fanny Cecile Mendelssohn was born 
 November 14, 1805. 
 
 Ignaz Pleyel died November 14, 1831. 
 
 Johann Nepomuk Hummel was born 
 November 14, 1776. 
 
 Gasparo Luigi Spontini was born Novem- 
 ber 14, 1774. 
 
 Albert Jungmann was born November 14, 
 1814. 
 
 Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was born 
 November 14, 17 19. 
 
 November Fifteenth. 
 
 The works of all beginners teem with rem- 
 iniscences : every composition reveals the
 
 1 68 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 model form from which it is derived ; and it 
 is only much later that they learn to act in- 
 dependently, and to strive for the ideal. 
 
 Von Weber. 
 
 William Horsley was born November 15, 
 1774. 
 
 November Sixteenth. 
 
 If we look around in modern music we 
 
 will find that we have a terrible deal of mind 
 
 and astonishingly few ideas. 
 
 Ambros. 
 
 Rudolph Kreutzer was born November 
 16, 1766. 
 
 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken was born 
 November 16, 181 o. 
 
 November Seventeenth. 
 
 A critic is justified in seeking and pro- 
 nouncing the truth without reserve. It is
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 69 
 
 not his duty to consider whom he pleases 
 
 or offends by his candor. 
 
 Ambros. 
 
 August Wilhelm Ambros was born Novem- 
 ber 17, 1816. 
 
 November Eighteenth. 
 
 The noisiest and most complicated music 
 has melody, but it may be so laden with ex- 
 ternal flourishes, or so obscured by internal 
 changes, that few only can detect and follow 
 
 the golden thread. 
 
 Christiani. 
 
 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop was born No- 
 vember 18, 1786. 
 
 November Nineteenth, 
 
 Schubert's songs : Beautiful as are his sym- 
 phonies, and great as was the treasure he
 
 170 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 bequeathed to the world in his instrumental 
 works, his most important contribution to 
 musical progress is to be found in his songs, 
 of which he wrote some six hundred. 
 
 Fillmore. 
 
 Franz Peter Schubert died November 19, 
 1828. 
 
 November Twentieth. 
 
 Beethoven rose so far above his fellow- 
 men that he saw seas and countries, yes, 
 suns and stars, which we cannot yet behold. 
 
 Merz. 
 
 Beethoven's " Fidelio " was given first No- 
 vember 20, 1805. 
 
 John Wall Calcott was born November 
 20, 1766. 
 
 Anton Rubinstein died November 20, 
 1894.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I 7 I 
 
 November Twenty-first. 
 
 Christianity is the only soil in which music 
 could grow and develop herself with a splen- 
 dor never conceived by the ancients. 
 
 Ernst Pauer. 
 
 Henry Purcell died November 21, 1695. 
 
 November Twenty -second. 
 
 St. Cecilia's Day : 
 
 At last divine Cecilia came, 
 
 Inventress of the vocal frame. 
 
 The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store 
 Enlarged the former narrow bounds, 
 And added length to solemn sounds, 
 
 With Nature's mother- wit and arts unknown 
 before. 
 
 Dry den.
 
 172 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 November Twenty -third. 
 
 Unfortunately the majority of people are 
 
 more influenced by external appearances 
 
 than by internal worth. And so it is that 
 
 we have a crowd of piano-players for whom 
 
 technique is the chief ambition, and a large 
 
 number of amateurs who consider it more 
 
 desirable to play runs and passages very fast 
 
 and loudly than to play them clearly and in 
 
 a moderate tempo. 
 
 Christiani. 
 
 November Twenty -fourth. 
 
 In Chopin's compositions boldness is al- 
 ways justified ; richness, often exuberance, 
 never interferes with clearness ; singularity 
 never degenerates into the uncouth and fan- 
 tastic ; the sculpturing is never disordered ; 
 the luxury of ornament never overloads the 
 chaste eloquence of the principal lines. 
 
 Franz Liszt.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 173 
 
 November Twenty-fifth. 
 
 The operas of Gluck can only be studied 
 
 as they deserve by being heard and seen, 
 
 and, moreover, under conditions of careful 
 
 and magnificent presentation. 
 
 Charley. 
 
 Christoph W. Gluck died November 25, 
 1787. 
 
 Grisi's voice Is deliciously pure and young, 
 and she sings as if she loves her art and 
 
 has its resources at her feet. 
 
 Charley. 
 
 Giulia Grisi died November 25, 1869. 
 
 November Twenty-sixth. 
 
 When I sat at my old worm-eaten piano 
 I envied no king in his happiness. 
 
 Haydn. 
 
 Franz Joseph Haydn was married to Anna 
 Kellar November 26, 1760.
 
 174 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK'. 
 
 November Twenty -seventh. 
 
 Whoever knows me knows that I owe 
 much to Sebastian Bach, that I have studied 
 him thoroughly and well, and that I acknow- 
 ledge him only as my model. 
 
 Haydn. 
 
 Adolph Marx was born November 27, 
 1799. 
 
 November Twenty -eighth. 
 
 With Ferdinand Ries I pass very musical 
 hours. Kindred sympathies are fostered 
 and a lasting friendship promoted by a pro- 
 found veneration for Beethoven, the master 
 of Ries. 
 
 Moscheles' 's Diary. 
 
 Ferdinand Ries was born November 28, 
 1784.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I 75 
 
 November Twenty-ninth. 
 
 He [Donizetti] is remarkable as an in- 
 stance of freshness of fancy brought on by 
 incessant manufacture. Such a change is 
 almost exclusively confined to Italian genius 
 in its workings. It learns and grows while 
 
 creating. 
 
 Chorley. 
 
 Gaetano Donizetti was born November 
 29, 1779. 
 
 November Thirtieth. 
 
 Rubinstein occupies a unique position 
 among all his contemporaries. As a pianist 
 he holds perhaps the first place since Liszt's 
 death. At the same time, as a composer, not 
 alone for the piano, but in a more marked
 
 176 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 degree as a writer of large works for the 
 
 orchestra and the operatic stage, he has 
 
 made an extraordinary success. 
 
 Upton. 
 
 Anton Gregor Rubinstein was born No 
 vember 30, 1830.
 
 DECEMBER. 
 
 Till at the last she set herself to man, 
 Like perfect music unto noble words. 
 
 Tennyson.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. I 79 
 
 December First. 
 
 A distinguished philosopher spoke of archi- 
 tecture as frozen music, and his assertion 
 caused many to shake their heads. We be- 
 lieve this really beautiful idea could not be 
 better reintroduced than by calling architec- 
 ture silent music. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 December Second. 
 
 If in spite of all the abuse and ill treat- 
 ment to which it is subjected the noble art 
 of music never ceases to charm and edify 
 us, it only attests its unfathomable and ever- 
 lasting grandeur. 
 
 Ferdinand Hitler. 
 
 December Third. 
 
 Genius is the most beautiful gift with which 
 nature favors mankind from time to time.
 
 180 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 Through it we are allowed to enjoy what is 
 most sublime — self-oblivion in a loftier life. 
 
 Hiller. 
 
 December Fourth. 
 
 To describe a scene is the province of the 
 painter. The poet, too, has the advantage 
 over me, for his range is less limited than 
 mine. On the other hand, my sphere ex- 
 tends to regions which to them are not easily 
 accessible. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 Deceinber Fifth. 
 
 O Mozart ! If I could instil into the 
 soul of every lover of music the admiration 
 I have for his matchless works, all countries 
 would seek to be possessed of so great a 
 treasure. 
 
 Haydn.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. l8l 
 
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died Decem- 
 ber 5, 1791. 
 
 Karl Friedrich Ludwig Nohl was born 
 December 5, 1831. 
 
 December Sixth. 
 
 The person who is unacquainted with the 
 best things among modern literary produc- 
 tions is looked upon as uncultivated. We 
 should be at least as advanced as this in 
 music. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Luigi Lablache was born December 6, 
 1794. 
 
 Giovanni Pacini died December 6, 1867. 
 
 December Seventh. 
 
 There are many things in music which 
 must be imagined without being heard. It 
 is the intelligent hearers who are endowed
 
 1 82 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 with that imagination whom we should en- 
 deavor to please especially. 
 
 J. Emanuel Back. 
 
 Stephen Glover died December 7, 1870. 
 
 Ludwig Schunke died December 7, 1834. 
 ■ Karl Anton Florian Eckert was born De- 
 cember 7, 1820. 
 
 December Eighth. 
 
 No kind of pianoforte music contains so 
 
 much that is so excellent as the study, the 
 
 etude. The reasons are simple : its form is 
 
 one of the easiest and most attractive, and 
 
 its aim is so clear and firmly fixed that it is 
 
 impossible to fail in it. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 December Ninth. 
 
 The elements of orchestration are those of 
 painting. The composition per se represents
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 83 
 
 the design ; the melody the outline ; harmony 
 
 the light and shade j and instrumentation the 
 
 coloring. 
 
 J. Raff. 
 
 December Tenth. 
 
 Harmony in music does not consist merely 
 in the construction of concordant sounds, 
 but in their mutual relations, their proper 
 succession in what I should call their audi- 
 ble reflex. 
 
 Delacroix. 
 
 Wilhelm Kuhe was born December 10, 
 1823. 
 
 December Eleventh. 
 
 Music is at once a sentiment and a sci- 
 ence ; it demands of him who cultivates it, be 
 he executant or composer, natural inspira-
 
 184 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 tion and a knowledge which is only to be 
 
 acquired by protracted studies and profound 
 
 meditations. 
 
 Berlioz. 
 
 Hector Berlioz was born December 11, 
 1803. 
 
 Karl Friedrich Zelter was born December 
 11, 1758. 
 
 December Twelfth. 
 
 Chopin spoke the language of the piano. 
 His pieces are so idiomatic that they cannot 
 be translated into orchestral language any 
 more than Heine's lyrics can be translated 
 into English. Chopin exhausted the possi- 
 bilities of the pianoforte, and the piano ex- 
 hausts the possibilities of Chopin's composi- 
 tions. 
 
 Finck.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 85 
 
 December Thirteenth. 
 
 I hope you will like my " Lobesang " or 
 " Song of Praise." It is a kind of universal 
 thanksgiving on the words of the last psalm : 
 " Let everything that hath breath praise the 
 Lord." The instruments begin with a sym- 
 phony of three movements, and the voices 
 take it up and continue it with different 
 words, solos and choruses, till all unite again 
 
 in the same words. 
 
 Mendelssohn. 
 
 December Fourteenth. 
 
 Study only the best, for life is too short 
 
 to study everything. 
 
 J. Emanuel Bach. 
 
 J. Emanuel Bach died December 14, 1788.
 
 1 86 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 December Fifteenth. 
 
 Every person has a lead with which he 
 attempts to measure the depth of art. The 
 string of some is long, that of others is very 
 short ; yet each thinks he has reached the 
 bottom, while in reality art is as a bottom- 
 less deep that none have as yet fully ex- 
 plored, and probably none ever will. Art 
 
 is endless. 
 
 Schopen h auer. 
 
 S. Mercadante died December 15, 1870. 
 
 December Sixteenth. 
 
 Uninterrupted harmony would soon be- 
 come as fatiguing as constant sunshine.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 87 
 
 Harmony after discord is a new pleasure ; 
 
 sunshine after rain gives new enjoyment. 
 
 Christiani. 
 
 Francois Adrien Boildieu was born De- 
 cember 16, 1775. 
 
 Johann Adolf Hasse died December 16, 
 
 1783. 
 
 December Seventeenth. 
 
 Music is the mediator between the spiri- 
 tual and sensual life. Although the spirit be 
 not master of that which it creates through 
 music, yet it is blessed in this recreation, 
 which, like every creation of art, is mightier 
 
 than the artist. 
 
 Beethoven. 
 
 Ludwig van Beethoven was born Decem- 
 ber 17, 1770. 
 
 Domenico Cimarosa was born December 
 17, 1749.
 
 l88 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 December Eighteenth. 
 
 How very differently does he create whose 
 inner ear is judge of the ideas which he sim- 
 ultaneously conceives and criticizes ! This 
 mental ear grasps and holds fast the musical 
 vision, and is a divine secret belonging to 
 music alone, incomprehensible to the lay- 
 man. 
 
 Von Weber. 
 
 Karl Maria von Weber was born Decem- 
 ber 1 8, 1786. 
 
 Louis Moreau Gottschalk died December 
 18, 1869. 
 
 December Nineteenth. 
 
 I require no undercurrent of thought when 
 I hear music, which is not to me "a mere
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 189 
 
 medium to elevate the mind to piety," as 
 they say here, but a distinct language speak- 
 ing plainly to me ; for though the sense is 
 expressed by the words, it is equally con- 
 tained in the music. This is the case with 
 the " Passion " of Sebastian Bach. 
 Mendelssohn, extract of a letter 
 
 to Zelter/rom Rome in 1831. 
 
 John Ella was bora December 19, 1802. 
 
 December Twentieth. 
 
 Exercise without consciousness is not ar- 
 tistic skill ; it is only the working of the in- 
 stinct, which will always make the want of 
 a complete education sensible. The spiritual 
 thought cannot do without the form, and it 
 is this which must be recognized and learned. 
 
 Richter.
 
 190 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 December Twenty-first. 
 
 There is no sweeter consolation in misfor- 
 tune than the pursuit of art, for the mind 
 employed in acquiring it sails secretly past 
 
 its mishaps. 
 
 Amp his. 
 
 Ernst Pauer was born December 21, 1826. 
 Franz Abt was born December 21, 18 19. 
 Theodore Hagen died December 21, 1871. 
 
 December Twenty-second. 
 
 Although woman has never made an epoch 
 in musical art, it must be said that she has 
 done a very important work in its develop- 
 ment. Though she has never been a great 
 composer, she has surely been great in the 
 
 interpretation of art-works. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 Theresa Carreno was born December 22, 
 i853-
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 191 
 
 December Twenty -third. 
 
 The value of the sketches made by Chopin's 
 extremely delicate pencil has not yet been 
 acknowledged and emphasized sufficiently. 
 It has become customary in our days to re- 
 gard as great composers only those who have 
 written at least half a dozen operas, as many 
 oratorios, and several symphonies. 
 
 Franz Liszt. 
 
 December Twenty -fourth. 
 
 A player may be very glib with finger-pas- 
 sages. They all in time grow commonplace, 
 and must be changed. Only where such 
 facility serves higher ends is it of any worth. 
 
 Schumann. 
 
 Giovanni Bottisini was born December 
 24, 1823. 
 
 Jules Benedict was born December 24, 
 1804.
 
 I92 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 December Twenty-fifth. 
 
 Christmas Day: 
 
 Then let us sing the anthem 
 The angels once did sing ; 
 Until the music of love and praise 
 O'er the whole wide world will ring 
 Gloria in excelsis ! 
 
 Sing it, sinful earth, 
 In excelsis Deo ! 
 
 For the Saviour's birth. 
 
 Father Ryan. 
 
 John Christmas Beckwith was born De 
 cember 25, 1759. 
 
 December Twenty-sixth. 
 
 I am sure if anything on earth can give 
 
 an idea of the angelic choir, it must be the 
 
 music of Palestrina. 
 
 Baroness Bunsen.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 93 
 
 Franz Hunten was born December 26, 
 !793- 
 
 December Twenty -seventh. 
 
 Schubert was like a gardener bewildered 
 
 with the luxuriant growth springing up around 
 
 him. As fast as his ideas arose they were 
 
 poured forth on paper. He was too rich 
 
 for himself — his fancy outgrew his powers 
 
 of arrangement. 
 
 Haweis. 
 
 December Twenty-eighth. 
 
 Passions, however violent, should never 
 be portrayed in all their ugliness ; and even 
 when describing the most horrible situations 
 music should never offend, but always please 
 the ear — in short, always remain music. 
 
 Mozart.
 
 194 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 
 
 December Twenty -ninth. 
 
 However so-called sober-minded musi- 
 cians may disparage consummate brilliancy, 
 it is none the less true that every genuine 
 
 artist has an instinctive desire for it. 
 
 Liszt. 
 
 William Crotch died December 29, 1847. 
 
 Dece?nber Thirtieth. 
 
 In Mendelssohn we admire most his great 
 talent for form, his power of appropriating 
 all that is most piquant, his charmingly 
 beautiful workmanship, his delicate sensitive- 
 ness, and his earnest, I might almost say his 
 
 impassioned, equanimity. 
 
 Heinrich Heine.
 
 THE MUSICIAN'S YEAR BOOK. 1 95 
 
 December Thirty -first. 
 
 The world is full of musical treasures, but 
 
 we are not being enriched by these to half 
 
 the extent we ought to be. 
 
 Booth.
 
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