Word: mottl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Four dances from Frederick Jacobi's The Prodigal Son (first broadcast), Haydn's Symphony No. 93 in D Major, the Gretry-Mottl ballet suite, Richard Strauss's Don Quixote...
...late Felix Weingartner was the last of a generation of European super-conductors, and his recent death means the end of a musical era, as well as a great loss to Columbia. He, and his contemporaries, Seidl, Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell...
Gluck: Ballet Suite No. 1 (arranged by Felix Mottl) (Boston "Pops" Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). Stately dances by periwigged Composer Gluck, in a recording as cool and sparkling as jellied soup...