Word: guicciardi
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...oblige companies to make their top executives' salaries available to selected stockholders-but not to the public. In Italy, the highest caliber executives get between $30,000 and $50,000 a year in salary, plus generous expense accounts; at the top salary level are such executives as Diego Guicciardi, director of Italian Shell, and Vincenzo Cazzaniga, Italian boss of Esso. The average member of the board of management of a big German company may make a salary of about $50,000. The biggest German salaries are in the auto indus try, topped by an estimated $250,000 paid...
...manner in which Beethoven composed, starting with ideas so trivial they look like a student's and rewriting virtually each bar a dozen times. Thayer's study of Beethoven's correspondence disproved not only the composer's supposed grand love affair with the Countess Giulietta Guicciardi but also alliances with many of the ladies with whom the sentimental 19th century liked to link his name. Factually, Thayer was rarely wrong (although he assumed the Beethoven family had come from Holland, whereas later research indicates it came from Belgium). Incredibly, a whole generation of biographers had accepted...
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