Word: bachaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over seventy and in semi-retirement, gave a recital of the twenty-four precludes and twenty-four etudes of Chopin. During the Rencontres Internationales at Geneva in September, at which Europe's leading intellectuals met to try to bring some unity to the post-war's ideological tangle, Wilhelm Bachaus appeared to give a recital of Beethoven sonatas and another of piano quintets with the redoubtable French Lowenguth quartet...
...reported as far afield as Athens. Even more condemned than Furtwangler is Willem Mengelberg, who was with the New York Philharmonic from 1921 to 1929. Red-haired Dutchman Mengelberg has lately conducted all over Germany. Only other internationally known musicians who have been playing in Germany are Pianists Wilhelm Bachaus and Walter Gieseking. Hulking, butler-like Gieseking has roused suspicions that he is pro-Nazi by the freedom with which he moves from Germany to Switzerland...
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