Town Gossip
Mr. W. Moses has on view at his shop a couple of novel and nicely illustrated programmes, such are used in Brussels, recently brought out by Madame Wiegand,and both bear the name of Stanley Moses as second violinist.
Windsor and Richmond Gazette Saturday 23 January 1897 page 3
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES
Exceedingly favourable reports continue to reach Mr Moses, of Windsor (N S W ), of the progress made by his son Stanley at the Brussels Conservatoire. Ysaye, the famous violin virtuoso, wntes that young Stanley Moses will almost certainly become a player of the first rank. The best proof of the esteem in which he is held is afforded by the fact that there being only one place vacant in M. Gervaert's or- chestra he was selected from amongst 60 candidates who passed tho necessary examination for the post of a first violin.
Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 10 April 1897 page 4
STANLEY MOSES.
EVIDENTLY we are to look forward to some special Australian talent in the person of young Stanley Moses, the son of Mr W Moses, of Windsor. Eugene Ysaye, a composer, and one of the most eminent violinists of the day, writes as follows from Bruxelles to Mr Moses:-" I am happy to tell you that your son is becoming a remarkable artist. He has always been persevering in his studies, and the progress that he has made in this last period assures me of his brilliant future success." It is significant that M. Gevaert, a composer of great talent, and director of the Brussels Conservatoire,
has taken a great interest in Stanley, and has chosen him out of 60 who passed the Conservatoire examination to fill the vacant place of first violin in his orchestra."
Windsor and Richmond Gazette Saturday 17 April 1897 page 6
Mr. Stanley
Moses.
IT is always a gratifying
circumstance to learn of a Hawkesbury-born boy that he is getting well to the front in one of
the departments of learning, and
therefore the news which was wished
along by cable early this week from
Belgium to the effect that Mr.
Stanley Moses,
son of Mr. W. Moses, of Windsor, had taken with distinction first prize at the Royal Conservatorie of the city named,
was re ceived with
considerable satisfaction.
The " Daily Telegraph" says:
This achievement
confirms the strongly expressed opinion of Eugene Ysaye, the eminent
Belgian violinist. Stanley is
the favorite pupil of' that genial virtuoso, and on the occasion of Mr
Wiegand's visit to Belgium last year
Ysaye delivered himself in enthusiastic
terms upon the prospects of Stanley's career. M Gevaert, the director, and a
composer of great talent, also
speaks highly of the young violinist's
talent and assiduous application to his studies. He was selected to fill the
first vacancy in M Gevaert's orchestra. Since then he
has appeared with marked
success in some public concerts.
M r. S. Moses is to be heartily congratulated on his achievement, and his friends hope to have an early opportunity of hearing him in his native town.
Windsor and Richmond Gazette Saturday 10 July page 3
Mr. Stanley
M. Moses.
ACCOMPANYING an alleged picture of
Mr. Stanley M. Moses, the
following letter press appeared in
Saturday's " Telegraph" :
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In Monday's issue of " The Daily
Telegraph" reference was made to the brilliant
distinction gained by Master Stanley M Moses at the
Royal Conservatorium, Brussels, in
securing " the first prize, with the
greatest distinction," at that great institution. Stanley Moses is son
of Mr Moses, of Windsor, and a nephew of Mr Henry Moses,
M L C. He is one of a family of ten, all musical, several of them having already distinguished
themselves in the Australian musical
world. Young Moses left Sydney rather more than four years
ago at the age of 14. As the
result of a consultation which his father had with M Wiegand, M
Poussard, M Kowalski, and M
Vandevelde (formerly Belgian Consul), who recognised the talents of the boy,
it was decided to give him a European
education. During his first year at
Brussels he was laid up with rheumatic
fever and pleurisy. The second
year his master (Eugene Ysaye) was away in America. In the third year rheumatism prevented
his qualifying for the big orchestra,
but in the fourth year he succeeded,
and was admitted to M Gevaert's orchestra at the Conservatorium to fill the
vacancy for the first violin. M Musin, when in Sydney, some five years ago, having heard so much of
young Moses' gifts, wired to Windsor asking that Stanley might be sent down to Sydney, that he might
judge of his playing.
After hearing him he said he had never before met s0 talented a boy. M
Wiegand also saw the lad in Brussels last
year, and speaks of him as " a
wonderful child ". M Poussard was young Stanley's teacher in Sydney, though he was coached by his sister (Miss Josephine E M Moses),
who was also his piano and harmony tutor. He was playing with several quartets in Brussels
prior to taking his first prize, and in
writing home in his
last letter he stated that he had sufficient offers of engagements to carry him through the winter,
but he preferred waiting until he had
got his prize before accepting any of them. He is now between 18
and 19 years of age. Seventy candidates presented themselves for the prize, of whom 40 were
thrown out.
Windsor and Richmond Gazette Saturday 17 July 1897 page 8
TOPICS OF THE DAY
The record of a distinct victory by
an Australian native in the arena of
Art, Science, and Learning generally,
should always be read
with gratifications by our people; and therefore it is but
reasonable to assume, apart from the
fact that Windsor is his birthplace, that the success
of Mr. Stanley Moses in
musical circles on the Continent is pleasing to all who
have heard the news. He has been in the
for tunate position
of a youth possessed of talent and of parents with the means to enable him to gratify his
ambition; had they not been so equipped, he, though
still charged with the same latent
genius, might have lived a life-time out without being afforded an opportunity of
attaining to eminence, and Australia
would have thus lost the credit of
having produced a violin ist of the very highest order of merit,
and one who has before him, it is to
be hoped, a long career of
usefulness. Truth to tell, far too little attention is bestowed by
the general public upon achievements
of this kind, and it is
questionable whether the fact that Mr. Moses
has come out on top in such an
examination as that which he un derwent at Brussels is known to many folk
outside our own district.
They all know which side won the last
eight-oar rowing contest, and how
many points the New South Welshmen
scored against the Maori land footballers; they are well primed
in the matter of racing weights and
the names of the winners for
the past ten years of the Melbourne Cup; they keep a close record
of the number of matches won by the
premier Cricket Clubs of
the metropolis during last
season, and can
tell without a moment's hesitation the names of the top
sawyers at the game. But make mention
of anything outside the department of sport-ramble into the regions of Art, Science and
Learning, and they are lost. A champion
cricketer, footballer, or boxer, gathers around him
hosts of friends, who
will charge him with whiskey, and feed
and clothe him, and con sider it an honor to do do; but a man or woman destitute of everything but brains
and genius might starve.
Windsor and Richmond Gazette Saturday 17 July 1897 page 1
Mr. Stanley
Moses.
THE following appeared in last
Saturday's " Telegraph" under the
heading of " Music" :
News has been received amplifying
the cable recently announcing the distinction attained by young Stanley Moses at the
Royal Consveratoire, Brussels. Eugene Ysaye, one of the most eminent violinists of the day, and Stanley's teacher,
writes to Mr. Moses, of Windsor,
that his son " was one of the
finest (perhaps the finest) first prize-holder, with the greatest distinction,
who ever came out of the
Conservatoire." The virtusoso lays stress upon the fact that with the brilliant
artistic carreer before Stanley, he should possess a violin of the
finest qualities available. Other friends have written in the same strain; and now £ 100, is on its
way to Brussels, wherewith a
certain much-admired and longed-for
"Strad" is to be purchased for the Australian violinist.
The violin jury at the "Concours Public"
included M. M. Gevaert (a
composer of great talent, and director of the Brussels Conservatoriuim since Fetis'
death), Massart (violinist and director of tbe Conservatorium
of Liege), and Cesar Thompson (the
eminent Belgian violinist). Mme. Gillis, a sister of Mme.
Wiegand's, writing to Mrs.
Moses from Antwerp on the 6th July, states : -" I have promised to give you the details
of the ' Concours.' I had
given my word to Stanley that I would go to Brussels in order to
hear it. There were
22 students, and he was No. 20, and truly all these ' Concurrants' had much talent, and I was
saying to myself already that it would
not be an easy thing for him. When, after the hours' waiting, his turn came, I
assure you I experienced a little anxiety.
But as soon as he attacked his piece
I was reassured, especially when I regarded the satisfied figure of M. Ysaye, who was in
my neighborhood. His piece was heard
by the whole
'Salle' in religious silence; he played in a marvellous manner; he was astonishingly calm-one could
see he was quite himself.
... I asked M. Ysaye if he
was satisfied with him, and he answered me, ' Rather ask him if he is satisfied with himself, because
Stanley
is really a great artist."
Mme. Gillis also refers to the unusual applause bestowed upon the performer,
and that several of his competitors had
gained distinctions at previous
"Concours," a fact that makes all the more conspicuous the achievement of young Stanley.Windsor and Richmond Gazette Saturday 11 September 1897 page 11
M. STANLEY
MOSES.
THE following translations from
different Continental newspapers,
concerning Mr. Stanley Moses, the
young Australian violinist, and son of Mr. W. Moses, of Windsor,
have been furnished us.
From " La
Renaisienne," Sep 19, 1897 :-" M.
Moses was the worthy partner of Mille Buyst
in the execution of the sonata by
Grieg. It has been seen, as in the
double concerto by Back, that the art of playing the violin has no more secrets for him. As worthy pupil of Ysaye, he makes
light of the difficulties
and makes his instrument sing
delightfully." " Gazette de Benaix." Sep 19, '97 : . . . " A great musical career is equally
re served for M. Stanley Moses, first
prize with the greatest distinction of
the Brussels Conservatoire.
M. Moses has much talent and much
modesty. These are the two talents
which the public love to see united. This
young artist has brought for
ward with much justness and sentiment the melancholy character of the sonata in C minor
by Grieg. The fantastical traits with
which the sonata is sprinkled have
been equally admirably rendered by this
young virtuoso." " De Row senaar," Sep 19. '97 :-" The sonata of Grieg
for piano and violin was rendered in master hands. This was certainly the case we name, by
Mille. Buyst and M. Moses. They placed all the necessary passion in the ' allegro molto,' delicate
ten derness in the "allegretto a la
romanza,' coloured passion in the 'allegro animato final.' It is thus
that it is necessary to interpret
poetical music, a little mystic, from the
Norweigan composer. The gem of the
musical seance was the execution of the double concerto by Back. Mille.
Hantson and M Moses placed there all their soul; they produced a startling impression by their
grand phrasing, their so perfect
ensemble. M. Moses was the first at the Conservatoire Concours.
This is to say that his master, Ysaye,
has furnished a pupil worthy of him who
will shine in a short
time beside the princes of violins." " Fenille
de Annonces," Sep 19, '97:-"
The coincert opened with a sonata in C
minor for piano and violin by Grieg, the Northern Chopin, as he is called
in France. Mille. Buyst and
M. Moses were fully sensible to the charm-a little
melancholy-of
this music, so personal to the ' idies,' a little brief (courtes), but delicious to the developments
so picturesque. The beautiful phrases
on the 4th string specially were a
marvel. In the double concerto of Back
for violin, Mille. Hantson and M. Moses interpreted
this with a serenity, an austere elevation, with a superb sentiment.
The execution was the ideal of phrasing
and ' fondu.' M. Moses is one of the most brilliant pupils of
the Master, Ysaye. He has the
suppleness of bowing,
the surity of mechanism, the appropriateness, the
comprehension of the work
rendered which charac terises this great school. All the audience
have preserved for this sympathetic
violinist the most agreeable souneniz "Windsor and Richmond Gazette Saturday 11December 1897 page 12
Town Gossip
" Daily Telegraph" of Saturday last
had
the following:The great Ysaye, under whom Jakoff Hatmboug will study in Brussels, is now engaged on a lengthy American tour. The violinist's pupils at the Royal Conservatorium have in the interim been
placed under Mr Stanley Moses and an associate. The selection of the young Australian is a very significant compliment, and confirms the high opinion his teacher (Ysaye) repeatedly expressed with enthusiasm, and the esteem in which Mr Moses is held by Mr Gevaert. the director of the Brussels Conservatorium Some public performances of Mr Moses have recently evoked much favorable comment from the critics.
