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Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat, Op. 127 (Budapest String Quartet; Columbia; 10 sides). The first of Beethoven's five great "last quartets" in a version less rugged than the Busch Quartet's (Victor), but superior in suavity and finish...
...this too simple concept, one man wrote an obituary last week. The man who carved the epitaph was a Leftist, who translated his hopes into the terms of international socialism. His right to bury the hope was as good as any Leftist's: Arthur Koestler, of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Haifa, Cairo, Moscow, Paris, Zurich, Seville, and now of London, is a veteran of many of Europe's military and ideological battlefields, concentration camps, hospitals, prisons, a journalist of repute, the author of one of the most brilliant and powerful novels of the present day (Darkness at Noon; TIME...
...nine, Bartok first composed some pieces for piano, and a year later made his public debut as pianist and composer. In 1893 he entered Pressburg, where he studied largely under Dohnanyi, and six years later he left for the Royal Hungarian Academy of Budapest. Throughout these years Bartok went through successive periods under the influence first of Brahms, then Lizt and Wagner, later Richard Strauss and Magyar folk music. With the failure of the new Hungarian Music Society in which he played a major role, Bartok, not yet appreciated by the musical world, retired in 1912 in order to make...
Hungary. An anti-Nazi national front including all the opposition parties was organized in Budapest to "rally ... to win independence." Its program: immediate cessation of hostilities and withdrawal of Hungarian troops from Russia; severance of relations with the Axis powers; establishment of freedom of speech, press, assembly; abolition of anti-Semitic laws; agrarian reforms. Berlin reported that 664 "Communists" had been arrested...
...most powerful countries-which seemed quite a lot to a nation the size of Maine. Hungarian armies were being cut to pieces a thousand miles away in Russia. Hungarian workers were herded into boxcars and shipped off to Germany. The people were war-weary and disillusioned. Berlin blackmailed Budapest into sending more troops to the eastern front by threatening to give Transylvania back to Rumania...