Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the patriots had almost guillotined him. He was the 24th son of an Austrian schoolmaster. His name was Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, composer of 29 symphonies, friend and pupil of Haydn. For a while he ran a music shop, published the first complete edition of Haydn's quartets. Mozart wrote of him: "How fortunate music would be if Pleyel could replace Haydn," but Composer Pleyel also turned to the manufacture of pianos. He played his pianos at the great courts of Europe, turned to farming in later life, died in 1831, the year of Sebastian Erard's death...
...good way for sons of musicians to occupy their time and bring the family kudos is to be prodigious. Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a harpsichordist at three, a composer at four. Ludwig van Beethoven fiddled at five; Johann Sebas tian Bach permitted himself, a small moppet, to be discovered poring over music at night in the garret. But Bob and Ted Maier, five-and six-year-old sons of Guy Maier, who was Lee Pattison's two-piano partner until last March (TIME, March 2), are no altruistic prodigies. They compose and write lyrics only when bribed...
...Basle. A Mozart Festival, May 9-17, under Conductor Felix Weingartner...
...Mozart Festival at the Residence Theatre, July...
...hero. The name stuck and young Schlesinger formally adopted it, perhaps because he guessed that the more obviously Jewish name would be a handicap. Anti-Semitic feeling did drive him out of Munich once but it could not dim his reputation as a great interpreter of Haydn, Mozart and the French composers. He has since had big successes all over Europe, in London, at the Hollywood Bowl in 1929, after his Manhattan experience had taught him something of the U. S. public...