What Holy did to fill his needs for a harp at Symphony Hall in Boston is not clear.
This firm would certainly be happy if its instrument could be played in Boston, since Schuecker stubbornly played an Erard for years and only lately a very mediocre instrument from another American firm (de Volt 46). So you will have to bring your own harp or you will have to get in touch with Lyon & Healy in Chicago. Holy was widely regarded as the finest orchestral harpist in Europe at the time.Ī portion of Muck's enthusiastic response reads: It was a miraculous reversal of fortune for the non-union Boston Symphony that was now just scraping by with the few harpists in the area that had no affiliation with the Musician's Union. Alfred Holy, who had worked with Muck at the German Theater in Prague beginning in 1886, wrote to express his interest in the vacant position. ), but Maestro Muck's focus is on who should be the next principal harpist with the Symphony.Ī few weeks after Schuecker's death, Muck received a letter from Vienna. Solutions to the crisis for the programs remaining in the season are dealt with in more or less successful ways (the harp part for Mahler's Symphony No. At Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, conductor Karl Muck has just been informed that their principal harpist, Heinrich Schuecker, has died suddenly.
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