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His score reading was marvelous. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, all seemed to flow naturally from under his fingers. The post in Detmold only required Brahms' presence a part of the year, but he was engaged for a term of years. The other half of the year was spent in Hamburg, where he resumed his activities of composing and teaching.
"A good scheme," said the Frenchman. "We would better avoid the highways as much as possible also." In almost a straight line, the direction in which the companions were now headed eventually would put them into Holland a few miles north of the Belgian frontier. Following the highways, their way would lead through Prenzlau, Brunswick, and Detmold.
A year went by and we did not get free; then another year began.... Four of us set out for the south. Two died. My brother and I were left " Lawless exclaimed. He now remembered how general sympathy went out to a well-known county family when it was announced that two of its members were lost in the Arctic regions. Detmold continued: "I was the stronger. He grew weaker and weaker.
The summer after his first winter in Detmold was spent in Göttingen with warm friends. Clara Schumann was there with her children, and Johann was always one of the family as a son to her. He was a famous playfellow for the children, too. About this time he wrote a book of charming Children's Folk Songs, dedicated to the children of Robert and Clara Schumann.
In 1841, C.E. Detmold adapted the consumption of the gases produced by the smelting to the use of anthracite; and since then it has become quite general, and has caused an almost incalculable saving to the community in the price of iron. The view of the engines which pump the blast will give an idea of the immense power which the Phoenix company has at command.
At the door he turned and said to Lawless, "My name to you is Detmold." The greeting between Jacques and his sombre host was notable for its extreme brevity; with Shon McGann for its hesitation Shon's impressionable Irish nature was awed by the look of the man, though he had seen some strange things in the north.
Even in a pitched battle, fought at Detmold, in which Wittekind led the Saxons against the superior forces of Charlemagne, they held their own against all his strength and generalship, and the victory remained undecided. But they were again brought to battle upon the Hase, and now the superior skill and more numerous army of the great conqueror prevailed.
In the autumn of this year, Johann paid his third visit to Detmold, and found himself socially as well as musically the fashion. It was the correct thing to have lessons from him and his presence gave distinction to any assemblage.
And he was glad afterwards that it was so; for when he looked again at this woful relic of humanity before him he felt a strange pity. "God's hand is on me to punish," said the man. "It will never be lifted. Death were easy: I bear the infamy of living." Lawless reached out and caught him gently by the shoulders. "Poor fellow! poor Detmold!" he said.
A year went by and we did not get free; then another year began. . . . Four of us set out for the south. Two died. My brother and I were left " Lawless exclaimed. He now remembered how general sympathy went out to a well-known county family when it was announced that two of its members were lost in the Arctic regions. Detmold continued: "I was the stronger. He grew weaker and weaker.
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