Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many early prints are to be found in the room. Four colored wood-cuts from the 1483 "Nuremberg Bible" are the oldest objects present. There is an impression in its second state of Rembrandt's etching "St. Peter and St. John at the Gate of the Temple". The seventeenth century French portrait engravers are represented by Edelinck and Pierre Drevet in their "Jean Andre" and "Andre Rercules" respectively. Prints from the studies of Hogarth, Barlom, and Oadry are also on display...
Harmonic drama in all of its trappings will be furnished in the playing of Wagner's prelude to "The Master-singers of Nuremberg". In this opus a march theme is ingeniously woven into the theme which suggests the love of Walther and Eva. The score holds many surprises and, in all, is intensely stimulating...
...Nuremberg, Communists and Fascists (National Socialist Workers party) met for a debate which terminated in a free-for-all. Spectators amused themselves by pitching beer mugs and stones into the throng, injuring 70 contestants, among them three Fascist aldermen. Police charged and dispersed the rioters with truncheons and fire hose...
...Nuremberg. In July and August Wagner's Meistersinger given in its original setting...