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...enormous enigma of Johann Wolfgang Goethe has bewildered and fascinated two centuries of Western culture. In Germany he is worshiped as a demi-divinity; Albert Schweitzer, for instance, modeled much of his life on Goethe's. Yet in the English-speaking world his works are very little read. The Goethe of transatlantic reputation is the plaster Zeus of Weimar who thundered at secretaries and toadied to princes ("Blessed are those who draw near to the great of this world!"). Of his works, only Faust is famous, largely because Charles Gounod made grand opera of it, and only...
While the audiences are relatively small, they come from far and wide. Last week a capacity audience filled the 630-seat auditorium (recently replacing a former cow shed) and flowed into the fields to hear Pablo Casals conduct the Marlboro Orchestra in two programs. The highlight was Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No. 4 in D Major...
...before. At concert's end, the Vermont mountains echoed with bravos for the world's greatest cellist, who had proved that he could have become an equally exceptional conductor. Says Casals: "Bach must be conducted with the same passion that a pianist puts into Chopin: after all, Johann Sebastian was a very healthy man who fathered 20 children...
...scorned Smith as "the merchant of Ven ice," but that shrewd gentleman sold his purchases for some $300,000 to the King on the installment plan-with interest. George Ill's wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg requested a sketch of Florence's Uffizi Gallery from a compatriot named Johann Zoffany. The elegant composite result (see opposite page) displeased the Hanoverian monarchs because of the prominence it gave to visiting Englishmen, even though it reproduced more than a dozen masterpieces of Italian art. Later scholars did blow ups of each of the copied paintings and found that the varied brushwork...
...Aristophanes (Greek 105a) Aristotle (Philosophy 105) Bertolt Brecht (German 160) Hieronymus Bosch (Fine Arts 156) Miguel Cervantes (Spanish 124) Geoffrey Chaucer (English 115) Samuel Coleridge (English 257) Dant'e Alighieri (Italian 120) Charles Dickens (English 259a) Fyodor Dostoevsky (Slavic 155) Jonathan Edwards (English 276) T.S. Eliot (English 267) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German 120) Nikolai Gogol (Slavic 154) Henrik Ibsen (Scandinavian 1) Immanuel Kant (Philosophy 130) John Keats (English 256) Lucretius (Latin 107a) Thomas Mann (German 285) Michelangelo Buonarroti (Fine Arts 257) John Milton (English 131) Freidrich Nietzsche (Philosophy 235) Pindar (Philosophy 278b) Plato (Classical Philology 236b, Philosophy 102) Aleksander...