Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pieces, he stretched and examined each phrase with all the intense care and concentration of a surgeon. In Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, an awesome challenge to pianists twice his age, he impetuously jiggered tempos and juggled rhythms without catching the full depth and breadth of the music. In Mozart's Sonata in F Major, he was all lucidity and logic, rippling through the trickiest passages with an almost playful ease. His interpretations were introspective and often compellingly original; his technique was dazzling, his involvement total...
There used to be a time when people cared and wrote about Sophocles, Mozart, and Picasso; when music, art, and philosophy were the subjects of private discourse and public lectures; when things of beauty that were joys forever could be lovingly appreciated and spoken of by civilized...
...behind when you go to a big house." Dutifully, Ludwig poured her heart into her art for nine years, finally graduated to the Vienna State Opera in 1955. It was a big house and she had big eyes for Berry, whom she met onstage during a 1957 performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Their own marriage took place seven months later...
...fraternity, and he is universally praised as the finest conductor to come out of Britain in 30 years. He began as a clarinet player with the Glyndebourne Orchestra, moved to the Sadler's Wells Opera as principal conductor in 1960 and distinguished himself with his command of the Mozart, Stravinsky and Berlioz repertory. Calm and controlled in action, Davis is respected by his musicians as "one of the few English conductors with real fire in his belly...
Cushioned by unprecedented affluence and the welfare state, he has a sense of economic security unmatched in history. Granted an ever-lengthening adolescence and lifespan, he no longer feels the cold pressures of hunger and mortality that drove Mozart to compose an entire canon before death at 35; yet he, too, can be creative...