Word: wolfgang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the legend which appealed most strongly to Poet Lorenzo da Ponte when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart asked him for an operatic subject.* Da Ponte was busy at the time with commissions from Emperor Joseph II, but working furiously, inspired by snuff, Tokay and his landlady's 16-year-old daughter, he wrote the libretto for which Mozart, writing notes with the same prodigality, composed the music of the opera known as Don Giovanni...
...When Soprano Maria Jeritza made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Tote Stadt, Manhattan was scoured for a "property" lute called for in the book. No lute could be found; a guitar was used instead...
...third of the series of lectures by Professor Wolfgang Liepe, visiting lecturer on German Literature from the University of Kiel, will be held this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Old Fogg Art Museum. His subject will be "Das Drama der Gegenwart...
Also not to be missed are the lectures by four visiting professors: President Henri Guy of the University of Grenoble, Professor H. W. Garrod of Oxford, Professor Wolfgang Liepe of the University of Kiel, and Professor Marcel Aubert of the Ecole des Chartes, Paris. The special lectures follow...
This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum, Professor Wolfgang Liepe of the University of Kiel, Germany, will open a series of six lectures in German. Professor Liepe, who is Visiting Lecturer on German Literature during the first half-year, will speak on "The Theatre in Germany" in the first four of his lectures, and will discuss certain personalities in the last...