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The general esteem in which Beethoven was held by the Viennese led to a demand for another hearing of Fidelio, which had been out of sight and mind for eight years. The revised form seems to have pleased him at once, although very important changes were made which imposed on him a herculean task.
It is an important-looking device in a polished mahogany case, and I recall in the advertisement I saw it was surrounded by a numerous enthralled-looking family in a costly drawing-room, while the ghost of Beethoven simpered above it in ineffable benignancy. Something now told me the worst, even as Lew Wee adjusted the needle to the revolving disk.
"Oh, I think Mozart rather than Beethoven," suggested Hélène. "He's not stern enough for Beethoven." Again Von Barwig bowed. Beverly Cruger shook his head. "Beethoven," he said, looking at Von Barwig critically. "Still well I'm not sure, perhaps " "Mozart," insisted Hélène. "Are you sure you don't mean Liszt? We really do look alike!" Von Barwig said, with a twinkle in his eye.
And then, all at once, he awoke with a start, for Beethoven was barking towards the door, with pricked-up ears and rigid tail. "Sh! You little beggar," he murmured, becoming conscious that the hour was late, and that he himself had been noisy at unbeseeming hours. "What's the matter with you?" And, with a sudden thought, he threw open the door. It was merely Mary Ann.
"What is the fundamental of a perfected violin technic?" was a natural question at this point. "Absolute pitch, first of all," replied Elman promptly. "Many a violinist plays a difficult passage, sounding every note; and yet it sounds out of tune. The first and second movements of the Beethoven concerto have no double-stops; yet they are extremely difficult to play. Why?
He looks like Beethoven, doesn't he? I think he knows that, perhaps and enjoys it a little. I hope so." "Yes," said Bibbs, as they reached the church steps. "I think Beethoven would like it, too. It must be pleasant to look like other people." "I haven't kept you?" Mary said to the organist. "No, no," he answered, heartily. "I would not mind so only you should shooer come!" "This is Mr.
God before all," he wrote in 1818, when beginning the Mass in D. All sorts of circumstances and influences were required to isolate him from the world to enable him the better to do his appointed work. Probably no other musician ever made so complete a surrender of all impedimenta for the sake of his art as did Beethoven.
"Yes, there are other Russian concertos besides the Tschaikovsky. There is the Glazounov concerto and others. I understand that Zimbalist was the first to introduce it in this country, and I expect to play it here next season. "Of course one cannot always play concertos, and one cannot always play Bach and Beethoven. And that makes it hard to select programs.
Beethoven could not have composed the Ninth Symphony without a mastery of harmony and counterpoint; but there are thousands of masters of harmony and counterpoint who could not compose the Ninth Symphony. The art of theatrical story-telling is necessarily relative to the audience to whom the story is to be told.
Should you expect him to turn out a Mozart or a Beethoven? Now, I think I recognize the poetical instinct in Number Seven, however imperfect may be its expression, and however he may be run away with at times by fantastic notions that come into his head.
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