BERLIN.
On the 22nd October was performed Die Hochzeit des Figaro, with M. and Mad. Reichel as Figaro and the Countess: the former sang with much spirit, and Mad. R. displayed all the qualities of an excellent singer, though not perfectly matured.
The first winter concert, given by Mad. Milder, took place on the 25th, on which occasion were performed several pieces of Neukomm’s, which, though compositions of great merit, were not very remarkable in point of invention. M. Felix Mendelssohn played Mozart’s Concerto in D minor. This young artist, it is stated, is about to get up three charitable concerts during the winter, in which he will bring forward some pieces of his own, not yet performed here, besides other compositions of sterling worth, among them a symphony in D major, by Ludwig Berger. In short it is intended that these concerts shall be equally interesting and attractive to the cultivated musician and to the amateur.
The Singing Academy proposes to give four Oratorios, Salomon, and Joshua of Handel, St. John the Evangelist, by Seb. Bach, and the fourth will probably be one of Haydn’s, but which it is not yet determined.
The four brothers Müller, the quartet-players, are expected to return in a short time from Brunswick.
The musical soirées of M. M. D. Möser commenced on the 31st October, when Mozart’s and Beethoven’s Symphonies in C major and the overture to Euryanthe were played.