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...content with a rapid succession of single biographical stunts, Author Ludwig here manages three somersaults in one leap, and lands, rather blown, upon his feet. Into one volume he has squeezed the life and works of Michael Angelo, Rembrandt and Beethoven, enough to occupy an author 20 years. The temerity of the performance may be pardoned, however, for the deftness of its execution. It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks. Except for the overripe interpretive verbiage, the volume can be read...
Last of the trio is the much be-generalized Beethoven, to whom the name "Titan" was long ago accorded. An aura of worship clings about this tough Rhinelander who transformed the intolerable affliction of his deafness into mighty music. His impossible pride impeded the social intercourse he desired. He loved always unsuccessfully. His tempestuous affections multiplied troubles with loyal friends and an ungracious family. Yet invariably out of his greatest despair came his most triumphant works: the Eroica symphony sprang from misery that led him to write his will in Heiligenstadt. This biography succeeds despite irreverent handling of disputed material...
...return soon to Rome and ambassadorial duties. But first they will go to Capri where the Quartet's concerts are to be given; where a friend, Dr. Axle Munthe, has loaned them his house. There at Garrett receptions, teas, soirees, the Quartet will play Debussy, Bach, Schumann, Franck, Brahms, Beethoven, for whomever Mrs. Garrett bids attend. Later they will play in Naples, then return to Manhattan in time for a November concert, the first of their next season's series at Town Hall...
...fortnight ago began its fifth season of ten concerts, not in the open, but in the newly decorated Civic Auditorium. On the dais, baton striking swift designs in the air, was Conductor Bernardino Molinari. Boldly, brilliantly. he led his musicians through the intricacies of the Don Giovanni overture, great Beethoven's great Eroica, Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the prelude to Die Meistersinger...
...Beethoven''; Symphony No. 3 by Conductor Max von Schillings and the Berlin State Orchestra (Columbia, $12)-Ber-lin's big man gives a dramatic reading of the monumental Eroica which Beethoven intended, until his hero took the crown of Emperor, to dedicate to Napoleon...