Word: salzburger
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Mozart Festivals which were long an annual August feature at Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, will hereafter be held at Baden-Baden earlier in the Summer. The reasons are practical. Salzburg was exquisitely appropriate, a quaint, ancient city in beautiful hill country. But it was awkward to get down to that section of Austria by rail, and Salzburg offered only mediocre accommodations for assembled tourists...
...annual music festival at Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, promises to be as fine an affair this year as it was last. The elite of musical Europe and America journey in large numbers to the little old city to attend or participate in festive productions of the works of the finest and most beautiful of all composers...
...interest to Americans is the announcement that various works by American composers have been recommended by the American Board of the International Society to be submitted to the International Jury in Zurich in May, and performed, if accepted, the second week of August in Salzburg at the International Festival. Among the works submitted is a string quartette by Charles Martin Loeffler, an American composer whose fame is international. Mr. Loeffler has won high praise from such a well-known critic as Lawrence Gilman, recently appointed to The New York Tribune as music critic after the death of Mr. Kriebbiel...
...Symphony Orchestra exhibited in its concerts of last Thursday afternoon and Friday evening, a new guest conductor. He was Bruno Walter, of much reputation in Germany, where he conducts the Munich Opera. Walter is especially renowned as a conductor of Mozart. He directed the symphony in D of the Salzburg composer. It would not be too rash to state outright that it was the finest Mozart conducting to be heard in the world today. Walter very sensibly cut down the orchestra to eighteenth century propositions. He achieved an exquisite balance of tone. It was no case of the huge mass...