Word: teutonicisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Magic Flute (1791) has Vienna witnessed the premiere of a major opera by an Austrian composer, but under such directors as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Clemens Kraus, it provided a unique climate for performance, fusing Italian fire, Teutonic thunder and Slavic melancholy into a mellowness all its own. For years...
Ansbach's Bach. The eighth annual Bach Week at Ansbach, Germany, brought a personal triumph to Manhattan Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, 44. Facing a firm Teutonic conviction that only Germans can play Bach properly, Kirkpatrick made a bold decision. While he was playing his morning performance, word came that Guitarist...
Big Saxon. The Teutonic barbarians who crumpled the remains of the decaying Roman Empire were often reported to have been big men. Last week a group of British amateur diggers found the bones of a fifth-century Saxon who was big indeed, if not monstrous.
THE TWELVE PICTURES, by Edith Simon (367 pp.; Putnam; $3.95), is bathed in eerie, sth century Teutonic mists as British Novelist Simon (The Golden Hand) retells the dark, doom-laden Nibelungenlied. The events in it are drawn from somewhat different sources from the ones Wagner used in his familiar brooding...
Louis' chief handicaps were two: 1) his eyes were in the back of his head, i.e., he dreamed too much of his uncle's example; 2) he had hardly a vestige of his uncle's genius. Of all the Bonapartes, probably none looked so unlike the family...