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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great poet Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller conceived the character of Luisa Miller, made her the unhappy heroine of his play Kabale und Liebe. Italian Poet Salvatore Cammarano fashioned the opera libretto from the Schiller piece, aptly labeled the acts Love, Intrigue, Poison. The scene is in the Tyrol. Luisa, a beautiful peasant, loves Rodolfo who turns out to be the son of the village's haughty overlord. He would forbid their marriage, arrest Luisa and her doting father. But Rodolfo, Hamletwise, knows of the murder which won his father his titles and his wealth, threatens him with exposure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Luisa Miller | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...ever despite its years. The long-necked, chinless figure escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged man?whom he had tutored and drilled so long, Fredrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who was to have been a Kaiser. With them also came the other onetime princes?Eitel Friedrich, like a bully top-sergeant; Oscar, the simple farmer; August Wilhelm, the dreamy painter. There was a lull as they reached their places, then a renewed storm of hocking as Admiral von Schroeder called the toast for "His Majesty our Exalted War Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Old Kultur | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...these things the late Don Francisco Aguilar knew. He had once made a study of the lute and its literature. He was further aware that Johann Sebastian Bach had written for it, that Georg Friedrich Handel as late as 1720 had made a part for it in his Esther. He remembered, too, that a Granadan. Baltasar Ramirez, had been the greatest lute virtuoso in 16th Century Europe; that the art of lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strings | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Kieist's Prinz Friedrich Von Homburg," Professor Silz, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...Kieist's Prinz Friedrich Von Homburg", Professor Silz, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

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