Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leonardo spent two un happy years in Rome. He found it increasingly difficult to finish work, and impossible to compete with such productive paint ers as Michelangelo and Raphael. Finally Leonardo's health began to fail; his right hand became paralyzed. At 64, he took his intimate friend, Francesco Melzi, and two servants to the Court of Frangois I at Tours. Leonardo died in France...
...Major for Organ and Strings (Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta with E. Power Biggs, Victor; 4 sides). Suave, serene, 17th-Century classicism by the earliest of all great violinists (also a composer of parts). Corelli's original has been touched up by Italy's contemporary G. Francesco Malipiero...
...approached, many of the league's European members wavered between exile and totalitarianism. Spain's famed Manuel de Falla (The Three-Cornered Hat) signed with Dictator Franco. Parisian Composers Arthur Honegger and Florent Schmitt toured Germany as honored guests of the Third Reich. Italian Modernist G. Francesco Malipiero began writing Fascist anthems for Mussolini. Unable to cope with political wanderings, in 1939 the embarrassed league restricted its composer membership to U.S. citizens...
With Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Francesco Pricolo, Benito Mussolini flew at once to Pisa. There, being Duce as well as padre, he marched in stately review, head high, past the pilots and ground crews of San Giusto. Then he went to Santa Chiara Hospital, and stood a long time beside the boy's body...
Tchaikovsky: Francesco da Rimin (London Philharmonic Orchestra, con ducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Colum bia; 6 sides; $3.50). The storms of Hell swirling about Dante's damned lovers Paolo and Francesca, were never driver more furiously...