David Popper's Concert Schedule 1860-68

My sources are Stephen De'ak's David Popper and Clytus Gottwald's Max Seifriz: Beiträge zu Lebenslauf und Werk. Other sources are linked. Additional information is provided in brackets.

 

29 March 1860 (Royal Estates Theatre in Prague, Prague Conservatory Orchestra under Kittl)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale," Op. 68
Ambros: Overture to drama Der Wunderthätige Magus
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor," Op. 73 (Bülow)
Servais: Souvenir de St Petersburg, Op. 15 (Popper)
Hérold: aria "Jours de mon enfance" from act 1 of opera Le pré aux clercs (Klettnerová, Řebíček on obbligato violin)
Léonard: Fantaisie pastorale "Les échos," Op.22 (Hřímalý)
Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat major, Op.27/2 (Bülow)
Wagner/Liszt: March from Tannhäuser (Bülow)
Liszt: Rigoletto, paraphrase de concert (Bülow)

 

18 December 1861 (Vienna)

Beethoven: Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 2
Goltermann: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 14

 

7 March 1862 (Prague Girls Reformatory Institute)

Beethoven: Archduke Trio, Op. 97

 

9 March 1862 (Prague, Konvikt)

Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2, Op. 58 (Popper, Čermáková pf)
Goltermann: Concerto [No. 1] (Popper, Slanský ? pf)
Chopin: Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31 (Čermáková pf)
Servais: Fantaisie on Slavonic/Bohemian Folk Songs (Popper, Slanský ? pf)
Schubert: Der Neugierige (Bachmann)
Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu Singen (Ehrenbergů)
Schumann: Waldesgespräch (Ehrenbergů)
Schubert: selection from Die schöne Müllerin (Bachmann)

 

12 March 1862 (Prague, Žofín Island, with Estates Theatre orchestra)

Slavík: unspecified Overture (‘first performance’) 
Procházka: chorus Naše vlast (solo v, Hardtmuth, Hlahol male voice singing society)
Popper: Adagio and Rondo [from Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 24] (Popper)
Jelen: Tam v dáli!: (Josefa Schmidt-Procházková)
Lachner: chorus Na Vltavě (solo T, solo v, TTBB chorus; Hlahol male voice singing society, dir. J.L. Lukes) 
Veit: Concert Overture, Op. 17, Nocí k světlu
Škroup: unsp. aria from opera Oldřich a Božena (Oldřich and Božena) (Ehrenbergů)
Chopin: 2nd and 3rd movs. from unsp. Concerto (Svobodová)
2 Czech Folk Songs: ([J.L.] Lukes)
Vojáček: chorus Před nepřítelem (Before the foe) (TTBB chorus; Hlahol singing society)

 

8 May 1862 (Prague, New Town Theatre [Novoměstské divadlo], with Estates Theatre orchestra under Jahn)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
Winter: Aria from opera Das unterbrochene Opferfest (Eilers)
Donizetti: aria of Antonina from act 1 of opera Belisario (Bělská)
Pivoda: Slovanská píseň (Bělská, Pivoda)
Popper: Concertstück [probably a movement of Concerto No. 2] (Popper)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37, mvt. I (Pišová)

 

9 (or 2) May 1862 (Leipzig Conservatory)

Schumann: Cello Concerto, Op. 129 (Popper)
Goltermann: Cello Concerto [No. 1] (Popper)
 

9 November 1862 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Overture Coriolan 
Chopin: Nocturne in B major and Polonaise in A-flat major (Bransart) 
David Popper: Cello Concerto in E minor [Op. 24] (Popper) 
Liszt: Tasso 
Schubert: Symphony in C major "Great"

 

27 November 1862 (Löwenberg)

Wagner: Vorspiel from Tristan und Isolde 
Rossini: Aria from I Tancredi (Albertine Meyer) 
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in A major, Op. 69 (Popper, Bronsart) 
Bellini: Aria from Montechi e Capuleti (Meyer) 
Berlioz: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini 
Liszt: Orpheus 
Schubert: Der Wanderer (Meyer) 
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67

 

26 December 1862 (Löwenberg)

Wagner: Eine Faust-Ouverture 
Beethoven: Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17 (Bronsart. Klotz) 
[Seifriz]/Popper: Fantasie über Lieder des Fürsten [Op. 1] (Popper) 
Chopin: Nocturne in F# major (Bronsart) 
Liszt: Valse impromptu (Bronsart) 
Liszt: Les Preludes 
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 "Scottish," Op. 56

 

28 January 1863 (Löwenberg)

Cherubini: Overture to Der Wasserträger 
Beethoven: Piano Trio, "Archduke," Op. 97 (Bronsart. Seifriz. Popper) 
Schumann: Beim Abschied zu singen op. 84 
Beethoven: Meerestille und glückliche Fahrt op. 112 
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian," Op. 90
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont

 

29 January 1863 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale," Op. 68
Beethoven: Aria from Fidelio (Louise Köster, Berlin) 
Mendelssohn: Overture to Athalia 
Weber: Szene and Arie from Oberon (Köster) 
[Seifriz]/Popper: Fantasie über Lieder des Fürsten [Op. 1] (Popper) 
Taubert: Zwei Lieder (welche?) (Köster) 
Weber: Overture from Freischütz

 

26 February 1863 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Leonoren-Ouverture No. 1 
Beethoven: Sonata appassionata Op. 57 (Bronsart) 
Servais: Fantaisie characteristique (Popper) 
Glinka: Kamarinskaya 
Berlioz: Overture to Le Corsaire 
Schumann: Symphony No. 4, Op. 120

 

26 March 1863 (Löwenberg)

Brahms: Serenade 
Spontini: Overture to Ferdinand Cortez 
Beethoven: Sonata Op. 31, No. 2 (Bronsart) 
Batta: Elegie (Popper) 
Schubert: Ave Maria (Popper) 
Glinka: Capriccio brillant sur jota Aragonesa 
Rossini: Overture to Guillaume Tell

 

7 April 1863 (Löwenberg)

Taubert: Overture to Der Sturm 
Mozart: Arie from Figaros Hochzeit (Mampe-Babnigg) 
Popper: Konzertstück for Violin und Violoncello (Stern. Popper) 
Spontini: Szene und Arie aus Vestalin (Mampe-Babnigg) 
Chopin: Nocturne in D minor (Bronsart) 
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 (Bronsart) 
Moritz Strakosch: Patti-Walzer (Mampe-Babnigg) 
Berlioz: Overture to Les Francs-juges 
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60

 

17 June 1863 (Prague, Žofín Island)

Popper played an unspecified solo work with Orchestra

 

12 November 1863 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 
Spohr: Overture to Jessonda 
Popper: Fantasie über Themen aus den Hugenotten (Popper) 
Schumann: Nachtlied for Choir and Orchestra
Schumann: Zigeunerleben (orch. Seifriz)
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

 

18 December 1863 (Löwenberg)

Méhul: Overture to La chasse du jeune Henri 
Servais: Souvenir de Petersbourg, Op. 15 (Popper) 
Spontini: Overture to Olympia 
Berlioz: Romeo et juliette, Parts 2 and 3
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, mvt. II 
Rossini: Overture to Guillaume Tell

 

24 January 1864 (in Berlin) (Löwenberg)

Volkmann: Cello Concerto, Op. 33 (Popper. Bülow)
Servais: Morceau de concert (Popper. Bülow)

 

4 March 1864 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
Schumann: Overture to Manfred, Op. 115 
Volkmann: Cello Concerto [Op. 33] (Popper) 
Schubert/Liszt: Reitermarsch 
Spontini: Overture to Ferdinand Cortez

 

14 April 1864 (Löwenberg)

Liszt: Tasso 
Donizetti: Aria from Lucia di Lammermoor (Weiss) 
Fürst Constantin: Ich bleib bei dir. Lied for Tenor and Horn (Weiss. Klotz) 
[Volkmann: Cello Concerto, Op. 33 (Popper)] (listed as a different work in the quotation)
Fürst Constantin: Sehnsucht (Weiss. Klotz) 
Fürst Constantin: Wo poch ich an (Weiss. Popper) 
Weber: Overture to  Oberon 
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92

 

June 1864 (in Breslau)

Popper: Romanesca [unpublished]
Schumann: Phantasiestucke [Op. 73]
Schumann: Trio in D minor, Op. 63 (with Silberschmidt and Damrosch)

 

24 August 1864 (Karlsruhe in honor of Volkmann's 49th birthday)

Volkmann: Piano Trio, Op. 5 (Rötscher, Reményi, Popper)
Volkmann: Cello Concerto, Op. 33 (Popper, Seifriz replaced Bülow due to illness) 

 

13 October 1864 (Leipzig)

Mozart/Popper: Larghetto for Clarinet Quintet, K. 581 (Popper)
Pergolesi: Air [Nina] (Popper) 
Volkmann: Cello Concerto, Op. 33 (Popper) 

 

27 November 1864 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60
Mendelssohn: Overture "Die Hebriden"
Rubinstein: Cello Concerto, Op. 65 (Popper)
Liszt: Mephisto-Walzer for Orchestra
Rossini: Overture to Guillaume Tell

 

4 December 1864 (Prague)

Bach: Sarabande [G major Suite] (Popper) 
Rubinstein: Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 18 (Popper)
Pergolesi: Air [Nina] (Popper) 
Servais: Morceau de concert (Popper)
Popper: [Scenes d'un bal masque, Op. 3]

 

December 1864 (Magdeburg)

Volkmann: Cello Concerto, Op. 33 (Popper)

 

December 1864 (Prague, Cacilienverein)

No program was given. Probably a mix of the above works.

 

26 December 1864 (Löwenberg)

Gade: Overture Nachklänge an Ossian 
Mozart: Aria from Titus (Lorch) 
Bach: Sarabande [G major Suite] (Popper) 
Popper: Scenes d'un bal masque [Op. 3] (Popper) 
Beethoven: Zwei schottische Lieder (Lorch. Popper. ?) 
Beethoven: Overture to König Stephan op. 117 
Schubert: Symphony No. 7

 

5 February 1865 (Löwenberg)

Raff: Suite in C major, Op. 101 
Volkmann: Cello Concerto, Op. 33 (Popper) 
Bülow: Des Sängers Fluch 
Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette, Part 3 and 2

 

19 March 1865 (Löwenberg)

Liszt: Tasso   
Volkmann: Cello Concerto, Op. 33 (Popper) 
Schumann: Overture to Manfred, Op. 115
Fürst Constantin: Wo poch ich an (Lorch) 
Berlioz: Overture to Le roi Lear 
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67

 

6 April 1865 (Löwenberg)

Maurer: Symphony in F minor [No. 1, Op. 67]
Schumann: Overture to Braut von Messina 
Bach/Gounod: Meditation (Ave Maria) (Popper) 
Pergolesi: Air [Nina] (Popper) 
Kletzer: Rhapsodie hongroise [Op. 7] (Popper) 
Berlioz: Rackozy-Marsch from La damnation de Faust 
Glinka: Kamarinskaya 
Gade: Overture to Michel Angelo

 

23 April 1865 (Löwenberg)

Schumann: Symphony No. 1, Op. 38
Mozart: Overture to Zauberflöte 
Reichelt: Das Meer erglänzet weit hinaus (Lorch) 
[Seifriz]/Popper: Fantasie über Lieder des Fürsten [Op. 1] (Popper) 
Schubert: Zwei Lieder (Der Neugierige. Ungeduld) (Lorch) 
Spontini: Overture to Ferdinand Cortez

 

19 November 1865 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Op. 21
Rubinstein: Faust 
Molique: Cello Concerto, Op. 45 (Popper) 
Gade: Overture to Im Hochland 
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Vorspiel and Liebestod)

 

17 December 1865 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Overture and 2 Lieder aus der Musik zu Egmont (Lorch) 
Popper: Cello Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 8 (Popper) - world premiere
Weber: Overture to  Euryanthe 
Schubert: Symphony No. 7

 

4 February 1866 (Löwenberg) 

Gade: Overture to Hamlet  
Berlioz: La Captive (Lorch) 
Volkmann: Cello Concerto, Op. 33 (Popper) 
Cherubini: Overture to Der Wasserträger 
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish," Op. 97

 

18 February 1866 (Löwenberg)

Mendelssohn: Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt 
Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 10 (Introduction and Rondo) (Frau Schmidt-Bydo) 
Liszt: Mignon (Lorch) 
Schumann: Frühlingsnacht (Lorch) 
Popper: Ich will meine Seele tauchen [Op. 2 No. 5] (Lorch) 
Ernst: Fantasie über Motive aus Othello, Op. 11 (Schmidt-Bydo) 
Berlioz: Carneval romain, Op. 9
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, "Pastorale," Op. 68

 

18 March 1866 (Löwenberg)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, "Italian," Op. 90
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (Topp) 
Weber: Overture to Der Beherrscher der Geister 
Liszt: La Campanella (Topp) 
Popper: Cello Concerto [No. 1 in D minor, Op. 8] (Popper) 
Liszt: Grande Polonaise in E major (Topp) 
Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio

 

September 1866 (Stuttgart, Hofkonzert)

Suite for 2 Cellos, Op. 16

 

25 November 1866 (Löwenberg)

Schumann: Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish," Op. 97
Berlioz: Overture to Waverley 
[Seifriz]/Popper: Fantasie über Lieder des Fürsten [Op. 1] (Popper) 
Schubert/Liszt: Zwei Lieder mit Orch. (Der Doppelgänger. Die junge Nonne) (Lorch) 
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Topp) 
Spontini: Overture to Ferdinand Cortez

 

26 December 1866 (Löwenberg)

Mozart: Symphony in C major
Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio 
Boccherini/[Grützmacher]: Cello Concerto (Popper) 
Popper: Romanze [Op. 5] (Popper. Topp) 
Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette, Scherzo Die Fee Mab 
Mendelssohn: Nocturne from Sommernachtstraum
Weber: Overture to Euryanthe

 

31 December 1866 (Prague)

Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66

 

22 January 1867 (Zürich)

Pergolesi: Nina (Popper, Kirchner)
Popper: Romanze, Op. 5 (Popper, Kirchner)
Schumann: Abendlied from 6 Songs, Op. 107 (Popper, Kirchner)
Schumann: Piano Trio No. 2 in F major, Op. 80 (Hegar, Popper, Kirchner)

 

10 February 1867 (Löwenberg)

Volkmann: Symphony in D minor [No. 1, Op. 44]
Weber: Overture to Der Beherrscher der Geister 
Molique: Andante from Cello Concerto, Op. 45 (Popper) 
Popper: Maskenballscenen [Op. 3] (Popper) 
Schubert/Liszt: Reitermarsch 
Berlioz: La Captive (Lorch) 
Liszt: Mazeppa

 

31 March 1867 (Löwenberg)

Gade: Symphony No. 4, Op. 20
Mendelssohn: Overture "Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt"
Popper: Sarabande und Gavotte [Op. 10] (Popper) 
Bach/Gounod/Popper: Meditation (Popper) 
Berlioz: Rackozy-Marsch 
Beethoven: Adagio from Symphony No. 9, Op. 125
Weber: Overture to Oberon

 

10 September 1867 (Vienna, Carltheater, organized by Ullmann)

Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor (mvts. 1 and 2), Op. 49 (Auer, Popper, Willmer)
Opera arias (Carlotta Patti)
Popper: Andante [Sarabande] and Gavotte, Op. 10 (Popper, Willmer)
Molique: [Andante] from Cello Concerto, Op. 45 (Popper, Willmer)
Popper: Warum and Papillon, Op. 3 (Popper, Willmer)
Schubert/Popper: Du bist die Ruch (Popper, Willmer)
Gounod: Serenade " Le Vallon" (Lefort, Popper)
Vieuxtemps: Ballade and Polonaise, Op. 38 (Auer, Willmer)
Spohr: Andante [from a concerto] (Auer, Willmer)
Paganini: Caprice [No. not given] (Auer)
Piano solos (Willmer)

 

15 December 1867 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60
Marschner: Overture to Adolph von Nassau 
Schumann: Cello Concerto , Op. 129 (Popper) 
Seifriz: Fest-Gesang for Choir and Solos 
Schumann: Fest-Ouverture Op. 123

 

1 January 1868 (Löwenberg)

Mendelssohn: Hochzeitsmarsch from Sommernachtstraum 
Popper: Cello Concerto in D minor (Adagio) [Op. 8] (Popper) 
Servais: Morceau de Concert [Op. 14] (Popper) 
Spontini: Overture to Olympia 
Weber: Overture to Oberon 
Wagner: Tannhäuser Einzug der Gäste 
Rossini: Overture to Guillaume Tell

 

9 February 1868 (Löwenberg)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Op. 93
Gade: Overture to Nachklänge an Ossian 
Molique: Andante from Cello Concerto, Op. 45 (Popper) 
Popper: Maskenball-Scenen [Op. 3] (Popper) 
Haydn: Variationen über Gott erhalte Franz 
Liszt: Les Preludes

 

15 March 1868 (Löwenberg)

Bülow: Des Sängers Fluch 
Händel: Theme and Variations in E major [The Harmonious Blacksmith] (Menter) 
Tausig: Soirees de Vienne No. 3 (Menter) 
Batta: Souvenir de Don Sébastien: Elégie, Op. 48 (Popper) 
Popper: Mazurka [Op. 11] (Popper) 
Piatti: Airs baskyrs, Op. 8 (Popper) 
Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, Op. 36

 

13 April 1868 (Löwenberg)

Berlioz: Overture to Le roi Lear 
Liszt: Don Juan-Fantasie (Menter) 
Mendelssohn: Overture to Die schöne Melusine 
Mozart/Popper: Adagio [from String Quintet, K. 516] (Popper) 
Popper: Gavotte [Op. 10] (Popper) 
F. Kletzer: Ungarische Rhapsodie, Op. 7 (Popper) 
Chopin: Grande Polonaise precedee d'un Andante spianato, Op. 22 (Menter) 
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67

 

15 November 1868 (Vienna, Music Society)

Haydn: String Quartet in G major (Hellmesberger, Brodsky, Bachrich, Popper)
Beethoven: Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 1 (Hellmesberger, Popper, Schenner)
Beethoven: String Quintet in C major Hellmesberger, Brodsky, Bachrich, Nigg, Popper)

 

3 December 1868 (Vienna, Philarmonic)

Esser: Symphony in B minor, Op. 79
Volkmann: Cello Concerto, Op. 33 (Popper. Esser)

 

14 March 1869 (Löwenberg)

Schumann: Symphony No. 2, Op. 61
Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio 
Popper: Romanze for Violoncello and Piano [Op. 5] (Peer) 
Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette, Part 1

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