Charles Fradel: Sonatine No.2 in D-minor (Op.505)

Charles Fradel: "Six Sonatinas" (Opus 505)
No.2 in D-minor (Andante, Allegro)

Charles Fradel Concert Review (16 Mar 1865, Evening)

PROGRAM DETAILS

Signor Fossati and Mr. W. A. King, the organist, were originally announced but were indisposed and did not appear. Adelaide Phillips replaced Mme Bosisio.

PERFORMERS AND/OR WORKS PERFORMED

1)LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants: Robert Goldbeck; Charles Fradel; Adelaide Phillips; Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]; Carl Anschütz; Sebastian Bach Mills; George Washbourne Morgan

2)Prophète, Le, aria
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Participants: Adelaide Phillips

3)"Kathleen Mavourneen," [ballad]
aka Elly Mavourneen
Composer(s): Crouch [composer-cello]
Text Author: Crouch [composer-cello]
Participants: Adelaide Phillips

4)"Comin' thro' the rye"
aka Coming through the rye
Text Author: Burns
Participants: Adelaide Phillips

5)Polonaise, piano
aka Grande polonaise
Composer(s): Fradel
Participants: Sebastian Bach Mills; Charles Fradel

6)Concerto, piano, no. 1, op. 11, E minor. Romance
Composer(s): Chopin
Participants: Sebastian Bach Mills; Robert Goldbeck

7)Concerto, piano, no. 1, op. 11, E minor. Rondo
Composer(s): Chopin
Participants: Sebastian Bach Mills; Robert Goldbeck

8)Morceaux de salon
aka Deux morceaux de salon
Composer(s): Goldbeck
Participants: Robert Goldbeck

9)Romanza and allegro de concert
Composer(s): Ritter
Participants: Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]; Sebastian Bach Mills

10)Fantasy on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
aka Fantaisie sur Lucia di Lammermoor, souvenir de Donizetti, op. 33
Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
Participants: Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]; Sebastian Bach Mills

11)Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
Participants: Carl Anschütz; George Washbourne Morgan

12)Reveille du rossignol
Composer(s): Fradel
Participants: Charles Fradel

New-York Times, 14 March 1866, 8
“Mr. Fradel, in a quiet, unpretentious way, has, during the past ten years, dragged up a light and airy style of music, which before was tedious and uninteresting, to an art point. In knowledge, capacity and taste he is without a rival. Any one who buys a piece of music by Fradel can ascertain the facts for himself.”

New-York Daily Tribune, 15 March 1866, 8.
“Mr. Charles Fradel has many claims upon public recognition; he is an admirable musician, and as a composer, he has furnished our salons with some of the most charming music of the day, while as a pianist, he exhibits exquisite refinement, unimpeachable taste, and an intelligent expression which only a creative musician can impart. Mr. Fradel has a large circle of admirers and friends, for whom he has prepared a rare intellectual feast.”

New-York Daily Tribune, 20 March 1866, 4.
“Mr. Charles Fradel, the well-known composer and pianist, gave his first grand concert of vocal and instrumental music at Irving Hall on Friday evening last. The following artists were announced to appear: Mlle. Bosisio, Signor Ardavani, Signor Fossati, and Messrs. S. B. Mills, R. Goldbeck, Theo. Thomas, G. W. Morgan, Wm. A. King and Carl Anschutz. As usual at concerts of this kind, several disappointments occurred in the shape of apologies of artists who were unable from a variety of causes to appear. Mlle. Bosisio had to sing at the Academy and could not duplicate herself at Mr. Fradel’s concert, so Miss Adelaide Phillips sang in her place. Signor Fossati and Mr. W. A. King, the organist, were both prevented from appearing though indisposition. There was still sufficient excellent material left from which to work out a capital concert.

-Other than this review I cannot find a good bio about this Composer-

(Valse Mélancolique)

He's mentioned in only the 2nd Edition of 'A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians' (1905) - The 3rd Edition (1919) They added 400-pages, increasing the volume of the book to a little over 1100 pages, and removed his entry... which is as follows:

Charles [Karl] Fradel: Composer/Pianist (26 or 29 August 1821 - 7 November 1886) Vienna, lived for many years as a music teacher in New York, also London. Also composer PF pieces and Songs

There no mention of his opus reaching 500+ works. Some of his works were published here in Cleveland and/or Detroit. He appears to have lived in the USA from 1859 onward.