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When Alfred Einstein began studying the violin, at nine, he soon realized he was no prodigy-"I only made a lot of noise." Later, as a student at the University of Munich, he tried his hand at composing the usual sonatas and fugues, soon found "I was not a Beethoven." But young Alfred, who had a distant, science-minded cousin named Albert Einstein, made music his career anyway...
Mozart & Museums. Einstein's taste was an arduously cultivated and exacting one. After getting his doctorate at the University of Munich in 1903, he had begun prowling through Europe's museums and libraries ferreting out and copying old music manuscripts, digging up little-known facts about music and musicians. Gradually building up his store of musical knowledge, he gained a reputation first as an independent scholar, then as one of Europe's ranking music critics. Writing in the Munich Post and the Berlin Tageblatt, he was on hand to give encouragement and advice to his friends, including...
...plane from Moravska Ostrava the pilot, pistol in hand, ordered the flight engineer's hands bound, barked: "Stay behind and shut up!" Then, he, too, headed for Munich...
...Prague." On the field below were U.S. military planes. In a hubbub of surprise and alarm, the liner rolled out, taxied up to the line. U.S. officers yanked open the hatch, yelled: "Get out, get out! No one is going to be hurt. You are in Munich. One of your pilots doesn't like Czechoslovakia...
...questioned the 85 closely. Two pilots said that the flight had been planned at an airport lunch the day before it occurred-they were "tired of Communist lies" and yearned for "freedom," no matter where. Only 16 were in on the plot; 10 others took the chance in Munich to claim sanctuary as political refugees...