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...sentiment worthy of Hamlet. In The Quick and the Dead, Thomas Wiseman has constructed a superb picture of Vienna before and during World War II, of the Baroness Leonie Koeppler and her society and of the Nazi ideology as it infects Wirthof and Lüdenscheid. He has also created a brilliant psychological study of how two very different men can become so unwittingly entwined that each fatally determines the course of the other's life...
...physique gave him somewhat the look of a tadpole, was already composing music. At 13, he wrote his first opera. At 18, he went to Berlin to study with Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel and Gretel), that same year became conductor of the opera at the small town of Lüdenscheid...
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