Lecture on Beethoven Quartet.

Mr. T. W. Surette of Columbia lectured yesterday afternoon on "Beethoven's String Quartet in F major, op. 59, No. 1." The lecturer said in part that no attempt should be made to interpret with any specific meaning this quartet of Beethoven's. It is a piece of constructive music--a wonderfully suggestive combination of allegory, fancy, comedy and tragedy, differing essentially in these points from the music of Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven's immediate predecessors. Their music, typical of the taste of the eighteenth century, is more obvious, making a direct appeal and containing no suggestion of hidden meaning. To illustrate his remarks Mr. Surette played nearly the whole quartet on the pianola, laying particular stress on certain difficult and important passages.