Word: musik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silent, sunk in mental rehearsal of selections from the file of music stored in his memory. He is largely self-taught. The son of a Munich insurance director, he studied piano privately, had only three months' instruction in conducting in 1942 at the Munich Hochschule für Musik before he was called up for army service. He was taken prisoner by the British in 1945, released...
Soprano Schwarzkopf's U.S. debut had been delayed until she was 37, and her first visit was limited to a single recital. One reason went back to prewar Germany: in 1935, as a 19-year-old music student in Berlin's Hochschule fur Musik, she became a leader in the Nazi Studentenbund. Thereafter her career blossomed; throughout the war she was a favorite of German audiences. Eventually, after the blanket denazifications of 1946, she returned to the musical stage in Vienna...
...program, Lotte Lehmann gave them an encore, Schubert's tribute to music itself, An die Musik. Before the last note, her voice broke and she covered her face with her hands...