Word: eroica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hearers an honest test of his ability. He announced that he would begin with two Wagner numbers, Overture to Tannhduser and Prelude to Act i of Lohengrin, then simultaneously play the piano solo and conduct Beethoven's Third Concerto in C Minor, before winding up with the Eroica...
...transformed the intolerable affliction of his deafness into mighty music. His impossible pride impeded the social intercourse he desired. He loved always unsuccessfully. His tempestuous affections multiplied troubles with loyal friends and an ungracious family. Yet invariably out of his greatest despair came his most triumphant works: the Eroica symphony sprang from misery that led him to write his will in Heiligenstadt. This biography succeeds despite irreverent handling of disputed material and much romantic fluff. Beethoven emerges the most distinct character of the three, perhaps the greatest...
...fifth season of ten concerts, not in the open, but in the newly decorated Civic Auditorium. On the dais, baton striking swift designs in the air, was Conductor Bernardino Molinari. Boldly, brilliantly. he led his musicians through the intricacies of the Don Giovanni overture, great Beethoven's great Eroica, Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the prelude to Die Meistersinger...
Beethoven''; Symphony No. 3 by Conductor Max von Schillings and the Berlin State Orchestra (Columbia, $12)-Ber-lin's big man gives a dramatic reading of the monumental Eroica which Beethoven intended, until his hero took the crown of Emperor, to dedicate to Napoleon...
Pithy, like effective pencil drawings, are the musical criticisms of Samuel Chotzinoff published daily in the New York World. The same characteristics mark his Eroica,* a novel based on the life of Ludwig van Beethoven and published currently. Despite his expert knowledge, Critic Chotzinoff permits himself even here no sidestepping into erudite analysis of Beethoven's music. His book is frankly fiction, tells vividly the story of the pock-marked man who never in his life found satisfaction save in music, who died shaking his fist at the unknown. Other Beethoven biographers have presumably clung more closely to reliable...