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Beethoven--Overture to Goethe's "Egmont," Op. 84. Chopin--Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 Brahms--Quartet for Piano and Strings in G minor Joseph Battlsta, soloist...
Died. André Gide, 81, man of letters; in Paris. Gide published his first book (a journal) at 21, waited long for recognition, longer for an audience, by the end had published 50-odd books: novels (The Immoralist, The Counterfeiters); criticism (Dostoevsky, Chopin); nonfiction ranging from a defense of the U.S.S.R. to an attack on it; and his lifelong Journals. In the '40s he finally won international recognition as one of the century's major writers; the Nobel Prize in 1947 made it official. He was "compelled," he said, to write about his own inner conflicts, "which otherwise...
Miss Rand is quick to point out that many girls have copied her dance, even to the point of using Debusay and Chopin for the background music. "But it isn't the same. After all," she says, "it's the motivation that counts...
Whatever the original idea, the grace and contrapuntal vigor of the concertos have delighted musicians ever since. Some famous performances: Chopin, playing with Liszt and Ferdinand Hiller; Clara Wieck (later Schumann) with Felix Mendelssohn and Ignaz Moscheles...
...Then the pianistically mannered Thalberg played his variation; Liszt provided a transition to the offering of Pixis; Herz came next, then Czerny, whose knuckle-cracking exercises have been the nemesis of piano students for the last hundred years. Liszt, from his piano, interjected a Fuocoso molto energico; the slender Chopin added an exquisite largo. At last, in his finale, Liszt wittily and skillfully parodied the styles of the others-except Czerny and Chopin, whom he respected too much. The audience buzzed with excitement. Tickled, Liszt later published the whole thing with the name Hexameron, often played...