Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during his short lifetime of 35 years, more music than most great composers who lived twice as long...
...Because Mozart was one of music's most fastidious craftsmen, the deep human and emotional qualities of his music have often been overlooked. This week the noted English Critic Walter James Turner publishes a critical biography of him.* With a hitherto untranslated collection of letters to draw upon, Author Turner shows Mozart to be a lusty, even ribald character, with a stout heart, a lively sympathy for his fellow man-and woman. Reminding his readers that Mozart's generation was also Goethe's and William Blake's, that its spirit was in fact romantic and revolutionary...
...MOZART: THE MAN AND His WORKS-W. J. Turner -Knopf ($4).
...MOZART : PARIS OVERTURE, K. 31 la (Sinfonietta conducted by Alfred Wallenstein; Columbia). A rising young U. S. conductor proves his mettle in an excellent performance of Mozart's "lost" overture...
...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...