Word: iris
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...bowing, murmuring, "Your Highness! Your Highness!" When Beethoven played and Goethe's eyes filled with tears, Beethoven "lectured him sharply on his sentimentality." Afterwards Goethe seldom mentioned Beethoven, but sometimes he had his music played. But the music scared him, he never really liked it. He would sit iri a corner and growl: "It is stupendous, absolutely mad. It makes me almost fear that the house will collapse. And supposing the whole of mankind played it at once...