Mozart

died of malignant typhus. A_ violent rain-storm coming up in the midst of the funeral, the party turned back leaving the body to be interred in spot, discovered, in the ground allotted to paupers in the St. Mary cemetery. The profits of a Mus. Festival given by the Frankfort “Lieder kranz,” June 25, 1838, were devoted to founding a Scholarship, the interest amounting in 1896 to rsoo marks, applied quadrennially to the aid of talented young composers of limited means. At Salzburg the Mozarteum, a municipal musical institute founded in his memory, consists of an orch. soc. pledged to perform his church music in the 14 churches of the town, to give 12 concerts yearly, and to sustain a mus.-sch. in which the musicians of the orch. give instruction. A complete ed. of M.’s works pub. by Breitkopf & Hartel (1876-86), contains much church-mus. inc. 15 ma es, cantatas ‘‘Davidde penitente’’ (masonic), ‘Maurerfreude’ “Kleine Freitmaurercantate,” etc.; stage-works, mentioned, ““Dze Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots” (only partially his own), “A pollo et Hyacinth us” (Latin com‘edy with mus.); ‘‘Zaide’’ (unfinished); “Thamos, Kénig Aegypten’’ (choruses and entr’actes; Berlin, 1786); ‘“‘Idomeneo, re di Creta, o ia Ilia ed Idamante.” Orcu. Works: 41 symph.; 2 symph. movements; 31 divertimenti, serenades, and ca ations; 9 marches; 25 dances, “‘Masonic Funeral-Music”’; “A Musical Jest” for string-orch. and 2 horns; a sonata for ba oon and ’cello; phantasie for Glockenspiel; andante for barrel-organ, etc.; 6 vlin.-concertos, ba oon-concerto, a concerto for flute and harp, 2 flute-concertos, horn concertos, a clarinet-concerto, 25 pf.concertos, a double for 2 pfs., a triple concerto for 3 pfs. CHAMBER-Music: 7 string-quintets; 26 string-quartets; “‘ Nachtmusitk”’ for string-quintet; 42 vln.-sonatas, etc. Pr.-Music: for 4 hands; 5 sonatas. and an andante with variations; for 2 pfs., a fugue, and a sonata; 17 solo sonatas; fugue; 3 fantasias; 36 cadenzas to pf.concertos; rondos, etc.; 17 organ sonatas, etc. Music: arias, and 1 rondo for sopr. with orch.; German war-song; a comic duet; 34 songs; a song with chorus and org.; a 3-part chorus with org.; a comic terzet with pf.; 20 canons. His unstageworthy opera ‘“‘Idomeneo’’ was provided with a new book, and extensively rescored by Richard Strau for the Munich Fest., 1930. The best of many biographies is by Otto Jahn (1856-59, 4 volumes in English, London, 1882), etc. His letters, ed. by Hans Mersmann, have also been published and translated in two volumes. One of his two overtures was found at the Paris Cons. 1901. Six unpublished sonatas were found in Bucking ham Palace, 1902. A violin concerto (the “Adelaide’”’), c. at Io yrs., was recovered in 1934. Other memoirs have been i ued by Berlioz, Dent, Holmes, Kerst, Breaks peare and Mersmann. (See article, page 508.) (4) Wolfgang A made us, Vienna, July 26, 1791—Carlsbad, July 209, 1844; son of above; pianist, teacher and composer of pf.-concertos, sonatas, etc. Muck (mook), Carl, b. Darmstadt, Oct. 22, 1859—Stuttgart, March 4, 1940; pupil of Leipzig Cons., cond. at various cities; 1892, ct.-cond. Royal Op., Berlin; 1899, cond. German Opera in London; 1903-05 alternated with Mottl as cond. of the Vienna Phil.; 1906-08 on leave of absence he cond. Boston Symph. during the winters; appearing also at Paris, Madrid, etc.; 1901, 2, 4, 6, and 8 cond. “‘Parsifal’’ at Bayreuth. arrangement with the Boston Symph. he continued his contract, sending Max Fiedler to conduct in his place Ig09-12; and returning 1912. made a most brilliant impre ion as a musician of the highest order, and raised the orch. to hitherto unparalleled efficiency. In 1918 he was accused of anti-Amer. activity and was interned as an enemy alien during the remainder of the war and deported, 1919. He was again active in Germany, after 1922, as leader of the Hamburg Philh. Orch., and conducted elsewhere, incl. Bayreuth..