Word: franz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five hundred torches pierced the blackness of a Vienna night. Five hundred dark-coated figures crowded their way down a crooked street in the Himmel-pfortgrund, stopped before an empty house tucked away there, hummed an invocatory pitch and sang the Serenade of Franz Peter Schubert. So last week, on his birthday and at his birthplace, tribute was paid to the memory of a great composer...
...hundred years have passed since young Franz Schubert was taken with typhus fever and died. Town officials were informed of his death . . . just another of those hungry-looking musical fellows. . . . They went to his lodgings, pounded on the door, pushed their way in when there was no answer. . . . They made a formal list of his leavings-six pairs of shoes, a hat, thirteen pairs of socks, a shabby suit, a blanket...
...When he was thirty-one, before minds had time to change, Franz Schubert died...
...Round and 'round turns slowly a great skeletonized globe. Above it squats a dummy representing God. On three platforms near the periphery of the globe stand actors wearing lifelike mask-faces of Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. As the globe turns, all three call upon God to grant victory to their respective armies; but when the dummy makes no sign, each monarch begins loudly to protest his own complete innocence of War-guilt...
...occasional instances. They have produced a painter like Mary Cassatt, but Painter Cassatt specialized in women & children, in subjects bound to be peculiarly within a woman's scope: like Rosa Bonheur, whose specialty was domestic animals. There are no women's names to be ranked with Velasquez, Franz Hals, Romney, Holbein. True, in literature they have done more with such handmaidens as George Eliot, Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, to put against Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe. But in music the situation is back again on a par with painting. Women have given birth to no great music. There have...