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Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 74 (Budapest String Quartet; Victor: 8 sides). Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 10 sides), and Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 11 sides). When gloomy Philosopher Oswald Spengler was casting about for the top artistic achievement of Western Civilization he included the string quartets (not the symphonies) of Beethoven. These three top achievements are given carefully tooled performances by two of the finest contemporary ensembles...
...written for string quartet (two violins, viola, cello), a combination of instruments supposed to be unequaled for balance and flexibility. Most of the great symphonists have written chamber music as well as symphonies, and sometimes connoisseurs have rated their chamber music higher than the rest. When German Historian Oswald Spengler was casting gloomily about for the No. 1 artistic achievement of Western civilization, his slightly decayed palm was finally bestowed on the string quartets, not the symphonies, of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven...
Neither an exotic nor a professional prophet, 42-year-old Professor Lips does not go off the deep end with his late eminent countryman, Oswald Spengler, who prophesied an onslaught on Europe by a black horde led by white adventurers. But he does not present savages as the pitiably naive creatures they are in most white imaginations. In fact, Professor Lips points out, North America and Australia have been the only continents actually wrested from savages by the white race, which in South America has been mostly absorbed and in India and China repelled from all but a few footholds...
...CULTURAL DYNAMICS (3 Vols.)-Pitirim A. Sorokin - American Book ($15). Herculean survey of world cultural changes in the last 2,500 years. An attempt by a Harvard sociologist, supported by data of 20 U. S. and European researchers, to invalidate and replace the revolutionary theories of Karl Marx, Spengler's gloomy outlook for Western civilization...
Died. Oswald Spengler, 55, famed German philosopher; of a heart attack; in Munich. His monumental, two-volume The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), predicting the extinction of Western civilization by the yellow race within 300 years, was written in an unheated Berlin flat. Published just after the War, it brought him wealth and an international reputation. A onetime National Socialist hero because of his distrust of Communism and non-Aryan races, Spengler soon alienated party leaders by his strong independence of spirit, his refusal to turn his talents to Jew-baiting...