Word: ngler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tasks of The Magic Flute and Fidelio were really accomplished by the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. The Flute was given first, before a sellout audience in the 300-year-old riding arena, carved out of the Monchsberg by the archbishops of Salzburg. "It is Mozart's turn," explained old Baron Heinrich Puthon, the festival's president. "Next year we will open with Fidelio so Beethoven will not be mad at us." For the Flute, the State Opera had no single great voice to offer, but its ensemble singing...
Pain & Pleasure. Both Furtwängler and his fellow essayist, Swiss Conductor Ertiest Ansermet (who called his 34-page opus Musical Experience and the Modern World), had played their share of contemporary music, Furtwängler dutifully, Ansermet enthusiastically. Yet both found that conducting it, like listening to it, had sometimes been more pain than pleasure...
Furtwängler hit harder: "Each great work of tonal music radiates deep, unshakable peace, like the majesty of God. This peace is lacking in atonal music [which] has grown restless. There is a lot of intellect and combination, there is plenty of intelligence, but ängler, listening to atonal music is like "walking through a dense forest; strange flowers are lining the path; you don't know whence you come and you don't know whither...
Concluded 63-year-old Wilhelm Furtwängler: "Tonality is the last, sweetest flower of European culture ... As a musician, I remain a partisan of tonality...
...During the winter two world-famed musicians, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Walter Gieseking...