Louis Antoine Jullien News
French conductor (1812-1860)
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- conductor, composer
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] even in such hands. Indeed the harp can scarcely be heard to worse advantage than in an orchestral concert. Mr. Theodore Thomas has well illustrated this in his entertainments, where even the masterly performances of Luigi on this instrument produced but a very evanescent effect. Three several singers were engaged at different times during the winter: Mme. Siedenburg, Miss Pintard, and Miss Hensler, none of whom, however, “took.” Then again, just at this time, M. Jullien, with his splendid orchestra, nearly all soloists, was at the beginning of his dazzling career in this country, and the people had “American Quadrille” on the brain. The Germania Society having received numerous requests to play more light music, for the first time in their history, ventured to make some concessions to the ad captandum taste; and certain they had no after reason to congratulate themselves upon such a misstep. They resolved to give […]
2021-09-16 12:00:00
'Songs of Travel and Home' performed by Jullien van Mellaerts, recommended by Geoff Pearce. '... a singer with a very expressive voice, a pleasing tone, a great insight into the music he sings ...'
2019-01-07 00:00:00
George Colerick tells the story of Louis Jullien, a French impressario, composer and conductor famous in London in the nineteenth century
2016-02-03 12:43:32
[…] the Sophocles play Oedipus Tyrannus, Paine wrote incidental music for it, including the strong Prelude we’ll hear today. The production was sold out (fairly remarkable considering that they gave the play in Greek) and even traveled to New York. Paine’s second Symphony, “In the Spring,” was conducted in Cambridge by Theodore Thomas, a pioneering American conductor and violinist. He had moved to America in 1849 from his native Germany and played in the orchestra of Jullien, whom we met last month in connection to Bristow and Philadelphia’s William Henry Fry. In Fry’s opera orchestra was another German, trying to make a living with his Dresden friends. They called themselves the Saxonia Band and had left Germany, yes, in 1848. Hermann Kotzschmar was a composer and organist who eventually set up shop in a small New England city. A local businessman and amateur musician, Cyrus Curtis, housed him his first year. […]
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