Word: fidelio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, all the symphonies, chamber music compositions, his only opera Fidelio, were offered. In Boston, at the exact moment of his death, the chimes of Tufts college rang the choral melody of the Ninth Symphony, while chapels, concert halls and symphony orchestras responded with other Beethoven music. In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, New Orleans, Portland, it was the same. The next day, Sunday, churches of all sects, worshiped in his music. Perhaps the comedy was finished, for every tribute grand enough to be fitting the memory Ludwig van Beethoven consisted of the music created...
Musicians the world over are designing their programs this season to commemorate the centennial of Beethoven's death.* Singers deep-voiced and shrill-voiced are dedicating their classical opening group to his songs, to arias from his Fidelio. Violinists and pianists are featuring his concertos and sonatas; painstakingly, reverently, string quartets are whispering his tenderest secrets, his hopes, his sentiments. Last week in Cincinnati Fritz Reiner opened the symphony season there with the Consecration of the House overture, played too the early Symphony in C. In Chicago Frederick Stock led the symphony there in the first of a series...
...pulled off his boots, crawled into bed and died, as feebly, as impotently as any little man might do. To commemorate the centenary of his death musical organizations the world over have announced Beethoven Memorial programs. The Metropolitan Opera Company will revive his one and only opera, Fidelio, orchestras will feature his symphonies above all others. Thus everywhere musicians are scouring for relics of Beethoven. Last week in Europe a discovery was made, not an unfinished symphony to be treated and pieced together, nor a scrap of a sonata, cool, clear, deathless, but a part of a diary...
...Fidelio, by Beethoven, a revival to commemorate the centennial of his death...