Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original librettists but on their 19th-Century English translators. For many years Cambridge Professor Edward J. Dent; one of England's most eminent critics and musical biographers, has brooded over the problem of translating operatic texts into sensible, singable English. Published recently were his translations of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fidelio. Where a hitherto much-used 1850 translation of Don Giovanni reads...
...MOZART: DIVERTIMENTO No. 15 IN B FLAT MAJOR (Joseph Szigeti & chamber orchestra; Columbia: 8 parts). Violinist Szigeti, rated tops by connoisseurs, gets all there is out of Mozart's melodic delicacies. The accompaniment is spotty...
Great symphonies, like great novels, are usually written by men of mature years. Notable exceptions are the 39 symphonies of Mozart, who wrote his first when he was eight, and died at an age (34) when the average composer is just beginning to hit his stride. But the big symphonies of the German romantic period usually came comparatively late in their composers' lives. Great epic Symphonist Beethoven, who wrote nine, waited until 30 to write his first one; Symphonist Brahms waited until he was 43; Symphonist Bruckner until...
...stayed outside the club. In 1930 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him the first big U. S. exhibition. When Germany became inclement to modern art five years ago, stern-faced, gentle Fantasist Klee settled near his birthplace in Berne, Switzerland, to paint, play Mozart with his wife, study nature. Last week's show at Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery was the largest, most comprehensive he has ever...
...before midnight the Austrian Federal Radio capitulated by broadcasting the German Nazi Horst Wessel song. Horst Wessel, author of the song, was a Nazi who, before his death (in a 1930 brawl with Communists), incontestably earned his living soliciting customers for Berlin strumpets. The degradation of the Austria of Mozart, of Schubert and of Schuschnigg was thus total. Nazi Storm Troops shortly took Schuschnigg to an Austrian home where he was held in "protective custody...