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...death in 1791 at age 35 is a rich source of drama and speculation. The man whom Joseph Haydn unhesitatingly acknowledged as his superior struggles against a fatal fever to complete his last composition. The D Minor Requiem is written for Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach, who wormed a place in history by secretly commissioning the work in order to pass it off as his own. Several bars of the Lacrymosa are probably the last notes Mozart ever wrote. The requiem was completed by his student Franz Süssmayr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waiting for Amadeus | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan's annulment from the Countess Marie Anne Wurmbrand-Stuppach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Education of Clendenin | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...from this country take the trouble to visit Colmar in Alsace for a sight of the Isenheim Altar. Few go to Karlsruhe to look at the "Cruifixion" and the "Christ Bearing the Cross." Unless they have been warned, they are likely to pass by the Basel "Crucifixion", or the Stuppach Madonna, or even the two important works at Munich--"St. Erasmus and St. Mauritius", and "The Mocking of Christ". Yet, taken together with the thirty-odd drawings extant, and a few other paintings, these constitute the complete works of one of Germany's three greatest artists--Gruenewald, the most German...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

Freed by order of a New York Supreme Court from his marriage with Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, 20, was Clendenin Ryan Jr., 28, grandson of the late great Thomas Fortune Ryan (TIME, May 14, 1934 et ante). The annulment confirmed the referee's recommendation made after secret hearings on the grounds that the Countess had 1) misrepresented her social position, wealth, upbringing; 2) been bought off in two previous engagements; 3) married Socialite Ryan intending shortly to dissolve the marriage, obtain a settlement enabling her to return to a previous love. With obvious reference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 29, 1935 | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

Separated. Mrs. Clendenin J. Ryan Jr. (former Countess Marie-Anne-Paule-Ferdinandine-von-Wurmbrand-Stuppach of Austria); from Clendenin J. Ryan Jr., grandson of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan; after a two-month marriage; in Manhattan. Reasons: undisclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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