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...funds as usual, the composer sent a note to his friend Franz Hofdemel, imploring the loan of 100 gulden (about $500 in today's money). As an added persuasion, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hinted that as a Freemason, he might be helpful in backing Hofdemel's candidacy for the same order. History does not record whether Mozart repaid the loan. But last week the letter, written in 1789, just two years before the composer's death, brought $5,738 at an auction in Cologne-more than ten times the asking price...
Liszt soon rounded up a staggering assortment of creative but deathless friends, among them Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and J.S. Bach. They all seemed to have learned English and appeared eager to use Mrs. Brown to make up for lost composition time. Rosemary laid in a supply of music paper and set to work copying down the carefully considered musical thoughts of history's greatest composers. "Liszt controls my hands for a few bars at a time, and then I write the music down," explains Mrs. Brown. "Chopin tells me the notes at the piano and pushes my hands onto...
...kind of pop music had ever been heard at the Met. The historic program had been arranged by Rock Promoters Nathan Weiss and Bill Graham, who made the deal with Met General Manager Rudolf Bing. "Perhaps," said Bing, "some of these young people will come back when we do Mozart and Verdi...
Walter Gieseking: Mozart's Complete Music for Piano Solo (11 disks, 3 volumes; $32.78; Seraphim). Gieseking's Mozartian style has slid out of fashion somewhat since these recordings were made in the early 1950s; nowadays he is considered just a bit slick and overrefined. But concert pianists, more conscious of quality than fashion, still justly envy the high gloss and exquisite workmanship of Gieseking. Seraphim's low price and lucid reproduction of the mono-only sound make the release a prize for the economy-minded...
Karl Böhm: Mozart's Complete Symphonies (7 disks; Vol. II, Symphonies 25-41; $31.50; Deutsche Grammophon). Sleek and occasionally lacking in subtlety, Böhm's second half of the complete Mozart symphonies (the rest are scheduled for release in May) can be bettered on individual recordings by conductors like Szell, Davis or Walter. But apart from Böhm, the only first-rank conductor to produce a marathon Mozart is Erich Leinsdorf, whose performance of the symphonies (Westminster, 1967) is badly handicapped by a brassy, unresonant recording. By contrast DGG's sound is sumptuous...