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...flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his Creation, Brahms in his First Symphony. Wagner used the mighty mouthed tuba to plumb the murky depths of his Niebelungen Ring...
...Author. Manhattan audiences know Franz Werfel as a playwright, author of Goat Song, Schweiger, Juarez und Maximilian. But he started up Parnassus as a poet. A Jew, a native of Prague, Werfel wears his hair a la Beethoven, is highly thought of in Europe. Other books: Verdi, The Man Who Conquered Death, Class Reunion...
...result: exile in Switzerland, where he still lives (aetat 65). When he digs into a subject he digs deep. His ten-volume Jean-Christophe won him the Nobel Prize (1915). The Soul Enchanted, a study in feminism, ran to three volumes. Since then he has been working the Beethoven vein, has published one (U. S.-translated) book on Beethoven the Creator (TIME, Sept. 16, 1929). Rolland's scholarship is a mine from which he does not care to emerge. Says he: "My connections with my generation are broken...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ludwig van Beethoven were contemporaries, but it was long before they met, not long before they parted. In these four essays Remain Rolland, music-lover, Goethe expert, discussed in scholarly but readable fashion their queer relationship toward each other and toward the enthusiastic girl who tried to bring them together...
...Laroche, one of Goethe's many loves, and may have thought (thinks Rolland) that she was actually Goethe's daughter. Her own affair with Goethe was rapturous but platonic, except for some early scenes in which the poet behaved himself like Daddy Browning. When Bettina met Beethoven he was still unfamous but very conscious of his worth, and she wrote rhapsodically to Goethe about this unappreciated musical genius. When they finally met, however, Goethe thought Beethoven uncouth; Beethoven considered Goethe an anxious snob. When they met some royalty a-walking, Beethoven barged right through the middle of them...