Word: mozarteum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played on it everything from Bach to Rimski-Korsakov and Ravel. He included the Manhattan première of a Sonata by Paul Hindemith, now visiting the U. S. for the first time (TIME, April 19). Nobody wondered that Callimahos should have been appointed the youngest teacher at the Mozarteum Summer-Academy in Salzburg. Even in Debussy's The Little Shepherd and Paganini's Caprice he was perfectly at home. But critics smitten with his precision admitted that Callimahos sometimes played monotonously and often with so little volume as to be almost inaudible...
...Salzach. sees its morning and evening suns at the rims of the Alps. In 1842 Salzburg held its first memorial in honor of its most famed native son. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-a requiem mass for the soth anniversary of his death. A Mozart Theatre for his operas and a Mozarteum for his concerts were built later. After the War, a group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include the works of other composers, converted the old Winter Riding School into the Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. From its opening month ago with Bruno Walter conducting the Eroica...