Word: ossian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...country; hence his appreciation of nature. He was surrounded by the warmest family influences; hence his tenderness and also his confident and sunny Christinity. At the age of sixteen, he left his studies and led the life of a country gentleman. His reading consisted of the Bible, Ossian, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Bernardin de Saint Pierre; especially Chateaubriand who gave him his taste for melancholy; finally Plato and Petrarch to whom he owed his contion of love considered as a religion...
...first number on the programme was the Overture "Ossian' by Niels W. Gade, one of the most gifted of living composers. The Overture won for him in the year 1841, a prize offered by the Copenhagen Musical Union, and after its first performance, he was immediately taken into royal favor and treated with the greatest distinction. Scenes from the tales of the old bards, of peace and war suggest themselves to the bearer as he listens to the soft, melodious parts by the violins and the harsh discordant flare of the brass instruments...
...programme for the Symphony Concert in Sanders Theatre at 7.45 this evening is as follows: Overture, "Ossian," Gade; "Invitation to the Dance," Weber Berlioz; Solo for the Violoncello. Rhenish Symphony, Schuman. The soloist is Mr. Alwin Shroeder, the leading violoncellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...