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...Indian Civil Servant and ended up by being Britain's foremost musical critic. When this London musicologist publishes a new biography, his fellow critics are inclined to accept his findings as sound, scholarly, vividly final. To his works on Gluck, Wolf, Richard Strauss, Elgar, Beethoven, Bach, Berlioz and Wagner, Ernest Newman, at 66, last week added his last word, on Franz Liszt...
...will give a concert Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in Longwood Towers, Brookline. The program will consist of the following selections: "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major" by Bach; Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony"; "Hungarian Dance No. 5" by Brahms; "Three Rumanian Folk Dances" by Bartok; "Allegrette" from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony; and "Malaguena" by Lecuona...
Wagner, the dramatist, was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven, the Titan, died shaking his fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that...
Berlin, Feb. 22--Discovery of original manuscripts of Ludwig van Beethoven, some of which would correct current printed versions to conform with the text of the great master, was announced today...
...Unger, expert on Beethoven data, disclosed that he had found 250 letters and many musical scores written by Beethoven in the possession of a Swiss collector...