Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Alfred Einstein began studying the violin, at nine, he soon realized he was no prodigy-"I only made a lot of noise." Later, as a student at the University of Munich, he tried his hand at composing the usual sonatas and fugues, soon found "I was not a Beethoven." But young Alfred, who had a distant, science-minded cousin named Albert Einstein, made music his career anyway...
Papa Schoeffler himself is in for a good deal more of it next season at the Met. Thus far, he is scheduled to sing a Ring cycle, The Flying Dutchman and the " wicked Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelia, with Kirsten Flagstad...
...last spring. Picked by new Conductor Walter Hendl (TIME, Dec. 26) to compose the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's $1,000 commission-piece for the year, Mennin had come through with Symphony No. 5. In Dallas' last concert of the season, No. 5 shared the program with Beethoven's Symphony No. 3. Mennin's short three-movement work did not have the "Eroica's" earth-shaking vitality, but it did have plenty of vim & vigor...
...composing this work, seven years later, he followed his predecessor Handel's example, wrote to conform more to a text (a theme from Milton's Paradise Lost) than to classical form. In so doing, he wrote music that hints at many a thing to come-the later Beethoven, even early Wagner. Performance and recording: good...
...Beethoven: Sonata No. 7, Op. 30 No. 2 (Joseph Szigeti, violin; Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Violinist Szigeti's expressiveness and devoted musicianship go a long way towards making up for his often raspy tone-far enough in fact to make this an excellent performance. Recording: good...