THE STRATTON
STRING QUARTET:
George Stratton (violin) ; Carl Taylor (violin) ; Watson Forbes (viola) ;
John Moore (violoncello)
JOHN ARMSTRONG (tenor)
Robert Franz was born at Ha!le within a week or two of the Battle of Waterloo, and died in 1892. He is considered one of the most important composers of German Lieder, and though his songs are sung today with less and less frequency, the listener will be able to trace in these often beautiful songs the germ of the more highly developed modern Lieder
Franz wrote over two hundred and fifty songs. Mendelssohn, as did Schumann, praised the early songs of Franz very warmly, but was not so nppreciative of the later ones, which he complained lacked melody. The charm of these songs lies not only in their unaffected simplicity and naive emotional content, but in their ingenious and imaginative workmanship.
QUARTET
Symphony in C J. C. Bach
1. Allegro con spirito; 2. Minuetto
Kentucky.................John Moore
Johann Christian Bach , one of the sons of the great Bach, lived most of his adult life in England and was known as ' The English Bach '. He was a musician of exceptional attainment and wrote a deal of music which more than holds its own with that of the period. Indeed, Mozart thought highly of his instrumental symphonies and studied them to very good purpose.
Mozart first came in association with Bach on his first visit to London in 1764. Bach took a great interest in this youngster of eight years old, and actually fixed up a concert for him in which they played a sonata together and a fugue, as a sort of double piano turn. Bach died in 1782 at the age of forty-six