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...over Germany similar pyres blazed with similar books. In the Romerberg, Frankfurt's medieval marketplace, a band played Chopin's Funeral March during the firing. In Munich only 100 books were burned, yanked from the shelves of the University library. Breslau boasted that it burned 5,000 Ib. of heretical works, Kiel burned 2,000 volumes...
...Chopin," Professor Hill, Music Building...
...Bravo! Bravo!" "You never heard anything like this." "Terrible! I will do better tomorrow."), drew crowds. Declaiming, gibbering, playing to a pile of unset jewels on the piano end, once to a pair of socks, bouncing on the piano stool, his shows were fine pianizing or fine Pachmannizing. Specialty: Chopin. A nickname (by the late James Gibbons Huneker) : "The Chopinzee...
...Whether he treats of Prokofieff or Wagner, he writes with a detached and unwavering judgment. To him the greatest of music is a combination of form and inspiration. Folk songs should not be an end in themselves, but a tool in the hands of a Vaughan Williams or a Chopin for the highest realization of their possibilities. Nationalism in music is for him a fallacy, since music is so universal as to be above political cr even racial boundaries. And Wagner's supreme failure was in his attempt to make music an auxiliary to drama, or to tie the abstract...
...third volume of the Oxford Edition of the Works of Chopin includes the Masurkas, Moreeaux do Concert. Concerios and the Rondean pour Deux Plane. They are all taken from the original Chopin manuscripts, with autographed changes shown in a clear manner. There is an introduction in English French and German which explains the need for such an edition and the difficulties in compiling it. The work in its entirety is probably too expensive and voluminous for most pianists, but should be included in a musical library of any pretensions...