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...certainly does Enough to realize who had actually composed some organ chorale preludes sitting in the Yale library. The compositions, in a manuscript entitled "Chorales without text," had belonged to Yale since 1873, but Wolff was the first to recognize them as early Bach...
Today in Eisenach, a benevolent bewigged stone figure beams down from a pedestal, quill in hand and manuscript paper at the ready; beyond it, high on a hill in the distance, sits the Wartburg Castle, where Luther, in disguise, completed his translation of the New Testament while hiding out from Catholic wrath and Wagner set his opera Tannhauser. In Leipzig, a sterner Bach is memorialized outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized...
Clancy had gone directly to N.I.P. with the manuscript of The Hunt because his only previously published writing, a letter to the editor and a three-page article about MX missiles, had appeared in the press's monthly magazine, Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. N.I.P. grabbed Clancy's book; as it happened, the editors had just decided to publish original fiction, provided it was "wet"--about the Navy...
...attempted to defect to Sweden, and most of them had been killed. "That mutiny rattled around in my head for years," Clancy recalls. Eventually the frigate was imagined as a submarine, and the novel began to take shape. He completed a first draft in six months. The finished manuscript was read by two submarine officers, who found only a few mistakes. For example, at one point Clancy had put valves on the bottom of ballast tanks instead...
...believes the parched and partly torn pages, dated in the late 1790's by a British diplomat. Lord Macartney, are the preliminary notes of Macartney's visit to China in the late 18th century. A full manuscript about the trip was eventually published...