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Quartet in F major, Opus 18, No. 1 Beethoven...
...Beethoven-Duo, E flat major...
...concert since his year abroad (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928; Jan, 7, 1929). Reluctantly many noted the inevitable change when he came on stage carrying a full-sized violin. The chubby legs were longer. The accustomed white suit had been changed for a solemn black one. But when he played Beethoven's D Major Sonata he showed increased technical skill, broader and warmer tone, more mature style. Even more amazing was the manner in which he accomplished a hazardous Bach sonata unaccompanied. His audience cheered loudly and many who had transferred his title of "greatest wunderkind" to the startling...
...outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most critics unrivaled for its flawless finesse...
...geographical difficulties the skill of the artist seems to have given his work an all around excellence which biased the judges even then in his favor. Nor was his versatility confined to the purely physical sides of the questioned. This picture, which started as a death mask to Beethoven, includes among other attractive features, a young lady standing on her head along with some very fine draperies. And now the wrong has been righted, and the artist has the prize money. The only criticism is that some might feel that the judges of this exhibition were not quite...