Word: gontaut
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...Gilels grabbed Van as he came off the stage after playing Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto, bussed him soundly on both cheeks. To Composer Aram Khachaturian, Van was "better than Rachmaninoff; you find a virtuoso like this only once or twice in a century." France's Marquis de Gontaut-Biron, a frequent judge of piano contests, found that Van had "almost the technique of Horowitz during his prime, and he has everything Horowitz always lacked." Raved Britain's Sir Arthur Bliss: "He plays with fire and poetry, and gives vitality to every phrase." More cautious, U.S. Conductor Dimitri...
...Seventeenth Century," - the family in question being the Verneys, and the papers being based on the memoirs of the Verney family during the English civil war. An interesting unsigned paper, also based on a volume of memoirs, is entitled "A Great Lady of the French Restoration," - Madame de Gontaut...
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