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Need. At Besenhausen, German officials had received a list of 200 refugees ready for transfer from a Soviet zone camp at Heiligenstadt. Only 101 of the 200 were on the "Link" lists. Allied officials asked the East German authorities to send the 101 to the crossing point. But the Communists, for reasons of their own, sent nearly 300. Said a British official: "I'll take all that are on my list. That's all I can do. I'll send for another list to try to take care of the others...
Beethoven's Second Symphony in D major begins the program. It was written at a time when the composer was undergoing physical and mental suffering in Heiligenstadt, where he had been sent because of his deafness. The first movement is full of outbursts and sudden silences in marked contract with the moral elevation of the second. The scherzo and finale show Beethoven's mischief and humor, racing as they do to a strange and noisy conclusion...
Official figures, published in Germany, reveal that more than 1,000 lay brothers and "numerous" priests were fortnight ago on trial or awaiting trial for immorality. Fifty-three had already been convicted. Suddenly Nazi State police swooped down on a Catholic boys' seminary at Heiligenstadt in Thuringia, closed it because of "wretched moral conditions prevailing among the youthful inmates...
...pride impeded the social intercourse he desired. He loved always unsuccessfully. His tempestuous affections multiplied troubles with loyal friends and an ungracious family. Yet invariably out of his greatest despair came his most triumphant works: the Eroica symphony sprang from misery that led him to write his will in Heiligenstadt. This biography succeeds despite irreverent handling of disputed material and much romantic fluff. Beethoven emerges the most distinct character of the three, perhaps the greatest...
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