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...ingratitude was staggering, and Thayer rightly criticizes him for gulling his old friend Johann Mälzel out of the first-performance rights to The Battle Symphony, which Mälzel had commissioned. Perhaps least appealing of all, he was a self-righteous moralist who could denounce his brother Johann's wife as "an infamous strumpet" though he himself, says Thayer primly, "did not always escape the common penalties of transgressing the laws of strict purity." What Thayer meant, as he later explained in correspondence, was that Beethoven had contracted syphilis, probably in the course of certain "conquests" during...
VIENNA, 1908-1914 (Mercury) does not celebrate the vintage waltz-schmalz associated with the era, but the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who at the time formed a kind of progressive under ground in the city of Johann Strauss. Antal Dorati leads the London Symphony Orchestra in 13 orchestral pieces by the three modern masters...
Distressed Dialect. To the rescue came "The Birdman of The Hague," Zoologist Johann D. F. Hardenberg of the Ministry of Agriculture's fauna department. Called in by the Air Force and Amsterdam's airport, Hardenberg's first move was to import an American invention, a loudspeaker playing the tape-recorded distress calls of American herring gulls. It was an imaginative effort, but it did not work. Dutch herring gulls apparently speak a dialect all their own and are not alarmed by the screams of their American cousins. When Dr. Hardenberg recorded distressed Dutch gulls and a Jeep...
...Johann Sebastian Bach seemed to have no understanding of his own greatness. Year after year, he turned out his glorious cantatas and Passions like a baker hurrying over the breakfast rolls. He considered the music that flowed from his pen for 50 years to be a collection of testimonials to honest craftsmanship-some of it better than others, but all of it composed, as he humbly wrote in the dedication of the Musical Offering, "as well as I possibly could...
Born. To Princess Birgitta, 26, onetime gym teacher, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf; and Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 30, archaeology student: their second child, first daughter; in Munich. Name: Désirée Margarethe Victoria Louise Sybilla Katharina Maria...