Leader, J. Mouland Begbic
Conductor, Guy WARRACK
Bom in 1840 at Konigsberg, Goetz lived, like Mozart and Purcell, for only thirty-six years. He died just when he showed every promise of taking a place among the foremost composers of nineteenth-century Germany. Two years before he died he was rescued from a life of ill-health and poverty by the production of his opera, The Taming of the Shrew, in 1874. Four years later it was performed at Drury Lane with such success that, according to a contemporary writer, ' enquiries were at once set on foot concerning other things from the same gifted pen '.