Word: franz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufacturers received last week a note on impressively crested paper: Dear Companions in Sonorous Construction : Upon the arrival of the piano which I ordered from you recently its strings began suddenly to vibrate, drowning the sound of nearby church bells. Not without trembling I perceived that the shadow of Franz Liszt, who was once a guest here, had entered the instrument and was producing with long immaterial fingers a beautiful rhythmic tempest. "This is a place of mysteries and prodigies. Rejoice with me!" (Signed) Gabriele d' Annunzio Gardone, Lago di Garda...
Died. Louis Svecenski, after long illness; in New York. He was famed as a violinist; was classmate of Fritz Kreisler and Franz Kneisel; played Brahms' compositions under the master's personal direction...
...Europe as well as to the governmental and university officials if they would grant to the bearer of this card all the facilities and privileges of travelling students." Under this will appear the signature of an officer of the Federation. The subsequent recommendation will be signed by Dr. Franz Deak, Vice-President of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants and at present a special student in the Law School. "The undersigned recommends the bearer of this card especially to all student organizations affiliated with the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants...
...Essays of Montaigne," by George B. Ives, "The Wedgwood Medallion of Samuel Johnson," by Chauncey B. Tinker. "The Letters of Tobias Smollett M. D.," edited by Edward S. Noyes "A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions," edited by Hyder E. Rollins, "Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy," edited by Franz Richby, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," by a Committee of the Classical Instructors of Harvard University, "Four Introductory Lectures," "La Methode Comparative en Linguistique Historique," by A. Meillet, "Custom and Right," by Paul Vinogradoff, "Mankind, Nation, and Individual," by Otto Jesperson, "Sanlede Skrifter," by Moltke Moe, "Santal Folk Tales...
...Died. Franz Kneisel, 61, famed Roumanian violinist and composer, from 1885 until 1903 concert master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, until 1917 director of the Kneisel Quartet, of which the other three original members were Roth, Svecenski and Giese, since 1905 a professor at the Institute of Musical Art, Manhattan; at Manhattan after undergoing an operation for perforating ulcer of the intestines...