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...little Austrian Tyrolean town of Salzburg started the summer music festivals in honor of its illustrious son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These festivals were attended by the good, pipe-smoking Bürger of Salzburg, by a few hardy music-lovers from nearby Vienna and Munich, by an occasional tourist or student from the great world beyond the Alps. Their programs were simple and unimportant. In 1918. however, a group of Viennese musicians, headed by Composer Richard Strauss, Conductor Franz Schalk, Stage Director Max Reinhardt and Playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. decided to give Salzburg a bigger place on the musical...
...thing, the X-particle was given a name instead of a cryptic designation. The name is barytron, which means "heavy particle" and was suggested by Dr. Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim of Duke University. The name has already found official favor, seems likely to stick...
Professor Wolfgang Denk, 55, University & General Hospital chief surgeon, author of the textbook on surgery most widely used in Austria...
More members of labor unions throughout the world are affiliated with the Second (Socialist) International than with any other group. Its secretary is Dr. Friedrich Wolfgang Adler, an Austrian who in 1917 was convicted of assassinating the then Austrian Imperial Chancellor, Count Stürgkh, but was amnestied. Socialist workers throughout the world have long known that Dr. Adler always carries an extra forged passport in the name of "Al Frey" in addition to his own, but Rotterdam police have not. They know Dr. Adler well and one day last August, when he handed them his forged passport by mistake...
...When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made his first visit to Italy, at 14, he heard a soprano called La Bastardella sing an "unbelievable" C in altissimo, an octave above the C in alt (high C) which is the difficult top of many a soprano's reach. Later in his Magic Flute, Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night-one of the most difficult coloratura soprano roles sung today-nothing higher than F in alt, or three and one-half tones below C in altissimo. Less than a century after Mozart's death, Jenny Lind produced effortless...