Word: morize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them made it ; one who did was a Polish boy prodigy named Moriz Rosenthal. At nine, he walked more than 400 miles from his native Lemberg to Vienna to study piano. At 14, he was made court pianist by Rumania's Prince Carol I. He became Liszt's star pupil, and practiced six hours a day to master the nuances of technique, played command performances all over Europe, exchanged ideas and mutual congratulations with Brahms and Johann Strauss in Vienna cafes...
Last week in Manhattan, his adopted home since Hitler occupied his beloved Vienna, death came at 83 to Moriz Rosenthal, last of the famous pupils of Liszt...
...Died. Moriz Rosenthal, 83, famed Polish concert pianist who played for kings and emperors in the glittering days of the Strauss waltz, was the last of the famous pupils of prodigious Pianist Franz Liszt; in Manhattan (see Music...
...When Moriz Rosenthal made his U.S. debut in 1888 the audience reached such a frenzy it had to be forcibly calmed by the police. Swooned the critic of the New York Sun: "A giant of ability, a hero, a demigod, a perfect pianist." Echoed the New York Post: "His powers are so extraordinary that it is difficult to speak of them in measured language...
Last fortnight Critic Olin Downes paid Moriz Rosenthal homage in a nostalgic vein with the purplest passage in the modern, if not the entire, history of the New York Times. Wrote Critic Downes...