Word: franz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germany, a group of Munich Jugendstil fanciers, led by Retailer Hans Joachim Ziersch, 53, bought, for $380,000, the 20-room villa built by Franz von Stuck, and restored its public rooms and part of its atelier with another $250,000. At the turn of the century, Von Stuck was Germany's most fashionable painter, earning the equivalent of $250,000 a year. His slickly lecherous nymphs and centaurs were snapped up by wealthy industrialists, his portraits commissioned by royalty, and his banquets were compared to Roman Bacchanalia. Von Stuck's million-mark palazzo, begun...
...concert days, when he was not singing along, Gould liked to conduct himself with whichever hand he could free at any moment. So it is not surprising that he has finally got around to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The piano transcription was written by Keyboard Demon Franz Liszt, meaning that both hands are too busy for shenanigans. Gould plays it in respectful dedication to both Liszt and Beethoven. The Fifth is largely free of Liszt's frequent pianistic bombastics and remarkably faithful to the original-save for an occasional missing dissonance. "Liszt removed them," says Gould, "to safeguard...
...groups of comparative settings were interesting for historical and compositional reasons. Besides the staples Schubert, Faure and Debussy, they gave hearing to such out of the way composers as C. F. Zelter, J. F. Reichardt, Robert Franz and Josef Szulc. The art song is probably one of the most difficult musical media to perform well. Miss Wilsen's effort was noble, but in a sense she was trying too hard. Her tone was often forced and she had trouble with breath control...
What Vian was driving at is not entirely clear. Like Harold Pinter, and even more like the novelist Franz Kafka, he creates a world in which more questions are raised than answers given; in which words often conceal rather than reveal meaning; in which, at the end, mystery is not clarified but rather intensified...
...recent times, only eight of the world's 120 currencies (those of the U.S., Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia, Panama and El Salvador) have survived the 23 years since the end of World War II without a formal devaluation, according to Manhattan Currency Expert Franz Pick. Since Jan. 1, 1949, Chile has devalued 46 times, Brazil 32, Uruguay 18, South Korea 17. The U.S.S.R. has sliced the value of its ruble three times since World War II - not because of external pressures but to reduce domestic purchasing power...