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Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during his short lifetime of 35 years, more music than most great composers who lived twice as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Mozart Biography | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

BACH: ENGLISH SUITES IN E & D MINOR (Yella Pessl, Harpsichordist; Victor: 10 parts). Bach played on one of the instruments for which he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Leading roles will be sung by David P. McAllester '38 and John H. Eric 1G. The production will be in costume with a ballet group, and will be accompanied by harpsichordist Claude Chiasson and a small string orchestra and chorus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opera "Dido and Aeneas" to Be Given by Lowell House | 3/24/1938 | See Source »

Returning last week to Manhattan from a trip to her native Austria, Harpsichordist Yella Pessl had good news for those music lovers who like to hear 17th and 18th Century works on the instruments for which they were written. On its way from Munich was a fine new harpsichord, made by Karl Maendler, famed for his work with archaic instruments, on which she will record some more Bach, Händel, Purcell, old German Christmas songs for Columbia this week. Herr Maendler's aim in constructing from old Viennese cherry-wood this super-harpsichord was to eliminate the twangling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harpsichordist | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

Music will be under the direction of Claude Chaisson, harpsichordist, while the lighting effects will be created by Freedom H. Ainsworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/26/1935 | See Source »

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