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Symphony No. 6 in F major, Opus No. 68, Pastoral.--Beethoven...
Chotzinoffs Beethoven...
Pithy, like effective pencil drawings, are the musical criticisms of Samuel Chotzinoff published daily in the New York World. The same characteristics mark his Eroica,* a novel based on the life of Ludwig van Beethoven and published currently. Despite his expert knowledge, Critic Chotzinoff permits himself even here no sidestepping into erudite analysis of Beethoven's music. His book is frankly fiction, tells vividly the story of the pock-marked man who never in his life found satisfaction save in music, who died shaking his fist at the unknown. Other Beethoven biographers have presumably clung more closely to reliable...
...Manhattan. Early in life he went to work in the architectural offices of the late great McKim, Mead & White, where he stayed six years. For 20 years he was literary as well as art editor of the New York Tribune (now the Herald Tribune). He likes music (Wagner and Beethoven preferred), collects books, and is addicted to golf, about which he has humorously philosophized in a volume called Nine Holes of Golf. His wife Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz has written on musical subjects, is co-editor of the Library of American Literature. Critic Cortissoz has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton...
...Carnegie Hall one afternoon last week. The occasion was a recital by Pianist Hans Earth, to show the development of the pianoforte of the past, present, future. It began with the 1750 period and the harpsichord; the instrument played was an exact model of Handel's and Beethoven's, with plectrums made of real crows' quills and leather. Then came a group for the modern grand piano which differs from the harpsichord in that it has padded hammers which produce tones by striking (rather than plucking at) tightly stretched metal strings...