Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franz Peter Schubert came of prolific peasant stock. His father, Franz Schubert, parish schoolmaster of Lichtenthal, now a suburb of Vienna, had 14 children by his first wife, five by his second. Brother Ferdinand himself had 17 children. This family fecundity, denied natural expression in Composer Franz Peter, found its outlet in an extraordinary musical fertility. Schubert, who died at the age of 31, was the most prolific first-rate composer who ever lived. Besides symphonies, choral works, masses, vocal duos, songs with instrumental accompaniment and a huge stack of miscellaneous chamber music, he wrote an average of nearly...
...gentle, snow-haired lady of 82 living in London, Franz Peter Schubert's grandniece talks easily of how, when a student, she heard Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt play in Budapest in 1870, heard Composer Richard Wagner conduct in Vienna in 1876. Fellow students with her were Conductor Artur Nikisch and Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler (TIME, Feb. 7). She heard Russian Pianist Anton Rubinstein (Melody in F), Spanish Violinist Pablo de Sarasate (Zigeunerweisen), took piano lessons from Clara Schumann, gifted wife of Composer Robert Schumann...
First runner to cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon last week was 85-year-old Peter Foley. Loping along Commonwealth Avenue, his arms hanging loosely at his sides, his pink-striped trunks ballooning in the April breeze, gnome-like...
...Peter Foley was only moderately flushed by his 26-mile jog. Skeptics along the sidelines suspected that the grinning oldster was guilty of some capricious prank. But they were mistaken. White-whiskered, toothless Peter Foley, who weighs only 119 pounds but has a blacksmith's handshake, had actually run the full marathon distance. But he had started two hours ahead of the field...
...Oldster Foley was unquestionably the hero of the day. The oldest marathoner in the world, he is probably the most durable as well. A onetime diamond setter, Peter Foley has been running in almost every Boston Marathon since the turn of the century. When he reached his 55th birthday, the Boston Athletic Association refused to accept his entry blank. Undaunted, Peter Foley began to run his own individual marathon. For years he used to start just one minute after the official field, but gave up that practice when he found that his friends couldn't find him among...