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Although Wolff was not the first to notice the attributions to "J.S. Bach" and "Joh. Sebast. Bach" in the collection of 17th-and 18th-century manuscripts, he was the first to analyze the pieces, which had been previously disregarded as shams...
...gift, the largest in the museum's history, came from the estate of Archibald Alexander Hutchinson'14. When Hutchinson died in 1949, he willed a collection of 17th-and 18th-century silver to the Fogg and allocated $500,000 for a new wing...
...allusion to the custom, especially prevalent in 17th-and 18th-Century Italy, of castrating boys with beautiful sopranos so that their voices would not change. At that time the best castrati were the most feted and prosperous singers of the period. Many connoisseurs preferred the castrati to the finest female sopranos, although a critic in London's famed Spectator once complained of "the shrill celestial whine of eunuchs...
...MURDER-William Rough-ead-Sheridan House ($2.75). Excellently written studies of eight famous 17th-and 18th-Century murders, including Pennsylvania's notorious Châpman murder (with arsenic: 1831) and the sensational French killing of the Duchess of Praslin by her husband (sharp and blunt instruments: 1847). Author Roughead's calm, intelligent, slightly old-worldly accounts (Twelve Scots Trials, Enjoyment of Murder) have made him, in Dorothy Sayer's words, "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...
...Hume had had no easy time. He first tried his idea in partnership with another Catholic educator named Jesse Locke. But Locke and Hume (not to be confused with the 17th-and 18th-Century British philosophers) failed to hit it off. Then Nelson Hume met Catholic Capitalists Henry O. Havemeyer (railroads) and the late Clarence Mackay (Postal Telegraph), got an $8,000 stake to start his school. He named it for his baptismal saint, Edmund of Canterbury...
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