Word: franz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York World, Peter Vischer.* Expert Vischer listened to the old artist speaking of the days, long before the War, when he had lived in Vienna, ridden through misted bridle paths with noblemen in red coats and silver spurs, painted Lippiza and Kladrub, horses of the Emperor Franz Josef. Then Expert Vischer looked at some of the paintings. Always admired first by horsemen, then by artists who saw the anatomical precision, the speed and effort of the running horses, the Academician composition and texture of his work, Artist Koch was rediscovered by the World's polo expert, whose article...
...help celebrate the centenary of Franz Schubert's death, the Columbia Phonograph Co. has offered prizes* to the composers who submit the best fragments completing Schubert's famed "Unfinished Symphony". Of such efforts Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, disapproves. Last week he wrote to the Committee in charge: "Several weeks ago the. . . Committee invited me to become a member of the Artists' Advisory Board. Believing the purpose was a dignified tribute to the memory of the great composer, I gladly accepted. ... I am now informed of... the competition for completing Schubert's masterpiece...
...Finland; Spain, Portugal; Russia, Ukrania. A grand prize of $10,000 will be awarded to the final winner, selected as the best of the first prize winners. The contest will be under the supervision of the Society of the Friends of Music. The awards, in all, total $20,000. Franz Schubert sold many of his most beautiful creations for 20c. He submitted the "Erl-King" to Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipsic publishers. They, suspicious of the MS. from Vienna, wrote to one Franz Schubert of Dresden, Royal Church composer, inquired if he had submitted the song. The answer: "With the utmost astonishment...
...ambassador whose wife, the most charming lady of Europe, was intimate with the American mother of Cintra Amory. The two girls, growing up together in the flowery atmosphere of pre-War Europe, grew up differently. Lilias, a remote and nervous comet, began her life by being engaged to Franz Czarany who later veered through an Italian milky way to exert an astral influence on Cintra. She, a steadier but not less brilliant star than Lilias, later married Terrence Down. When Lilias came to Paris after the War, Terrence was not blind to her bright beauty; but when she no longer...
...less effective style it outlines the life of a delicate young man of extreme refinement, attending rather to the dates on which he commenced his amours than to those on which he composed his mazurkas. Nothing is added to biographical data. Persons who liked the De Pourtales life of Franz Liszt, L'Homme d'Amour (TIME, Jan. 31), may find in this a less rhapsodic concentration, a more balanced treatment...