Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great in Germany today as the House of Mendelssohn. Bankers to the House of Romanov up to 1914, Mendelssohn & Co. suffered temporary eclipse when Germany declared war on Russia, later emerged more potent than before. Sixty-five years old, tall, clean-shaven and of impressive mien, Franz von Mendelssohn did not go to Washington last week. He addressed the congress, whose president he will be next year, from Berlin. "My voice," said Mighty Mendelssohn, "as that of a single individual coming across the ocean, is weak and feeble. But I remind you that other voices are making the same appeal...
When prolific, peace loving Franz Joseph Haydn closed his eyes and died in 1809, all Europe reverently mourned him. In Vienna the admiration of two men expressed itself strangely: a jailer and the secretary of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Haydn's patron, bribed a gravedigger to spade open the grave, break the seal of the coffin, hack off for them the dead composer's hulking head...
...musicians, now like an important prima donna has music composed expressly for it. German Kurt Weill wrote the cantata Lindbergh's Flight for radio performance (TIME, April 13). Last week the first radio opera, Malpopita, was given in Berlin?the work of Composer Walter Goehr, a follower of Ultramodernists Franz Schrecker and Arnold Schonberg...
...PURE IN HEART-Franz Werfel- Simon & Schuster ($3). Ferdinand was ship's doctor on a Mediterranean liner. He kept himself to him- self, and his assistant's curiosity, already well tickled, was further titillated when he saw Ferdinand one night drop something overboard. What Ferdinand dropped and how he came to have it, form the motif of this carefully written, 610-page novel, which the Book League has nominated as its May choice. Ferdinand, son of an Austrian colonel, was orphaned young, and his old nurse Barbara became practically his foster-mother. A defenseless but not stupid...
...Author. Manhattan audiences know Franz Werfel as a playwright, author of Goat Song, Schweiger, Juarez und Maximilian. But he started up Parnassus as a poet. A Jew, a native of Prague, Werfel wears his hair a la Beethoven, is highly thought of in Europe. Other books: Verdi, The Man Who Conquered Death, Class Reunion...