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...every Viennese was willing to die in a Nazi delaying action. The Russians reported risings of anti-Nazis within the city. Transport workers refused to unload trains. There were reports that assassins had killed Vienna's defender, tough SS General Sepp Dietrich, trusted commander of Hitler's elite bodyguard troops...
...doubtful whether Joseph Sepp Froelich, sharp-eyed as he was, had ever noticed the quiet, unremarkable man who lived in one of the cottages, spent his time hanging around Sun Valley Lodge, watching the skaters during the indigo-shadowed afternoons, sitting in the café through the starlit evenings...
Other things happen to Sepp. He has argued now & again with his intelligent, stodgy, Communist son; by his neglect he has brought his wife to suicide. Without at all realizing how, he has brought himself free of the reverential, abstract chilliness which inhibited his music. At book's end he sits hearing (over the radio), the first performance of the first great music he has written, the Waiting-Room Symphony...
During one of their talks Sepp tells his son: "The old world isn't dead yet and the new world isn't born yet, and this is a horrible age of transition; it's really nothing but a horrible waiting-room. I've put it all into my music...
Though he falls short of Sepp's symphony in inspiration, Feuchtwanger has crowded an excellent plenty of that suspended world into his book...