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Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his first U. S. performance of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony. Also Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn's D Major (Horn Call) Symphony...
...well as symphonies, and sometimes connoisseurs have rated their chamber music higher than the rest. When German Historian Oswald Spengler was casting gloomily about for the No. 1 artistic achievement of Western civilization, his slightly decayed palm was finally bestowed on the string quartets, not the symphonies, of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven...
...HAYDN: SYMPHONY No. 93 IN D MAJOR (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). A famous Haydn conductor directs a top-flight Haydn symphony in top form...
Silvermine Festival (Sun. 8:45 p.m., CBS). New York's Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy, plays Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Johannes Brahm's Variations on a Theme of Haydn at Connecticut's No. 1 music festival. Soloists : Soprano Anna Kaskas, Contralto Rosa Tentoni, Tenor Chase Baromeo, Baritone Edouard Grobe...
Years later, on his deathbed, one of the students confessed the substitution and willed Haydn's real skull to a friend who passed it on to a well-known Viennese doctor. Eventually it wound up in the possession of the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music, who placed it on exhibition in 1895. Meanwhile, the heirs of Prince Esterhazy, Haydn's friend and patron, had built a magnificent mausoleum in Eisenstadt for Haydn's remains, but refused to have them buried in it without his head. For many years legal complications have held up Haydn...