Identifier: modernmusicmusic02elso (find matches)
Title: Modern music and musicians : (Encyclopedic)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920
Subjects: Piano Musicians Composers
Publisher: New York : The University Society Inc.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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BEETHOVEN'S MOTHER. After a painting by Caspar Benedict Beckenkamp. Engraved by E. Heinemann.
... with new material. He had thought of a „Romulus“. There is a letter written to the singer Milder Hauptmann, January 6, 1816: „You would do a great service to me and the German theater if you would beg Baron de la Motte Fouqué in my name to find a subject for an opera which would be suitable for yourself. I should like to write something of this kind for the Berlin theater; for, with our niggardly management, I shall never be able to bring out a new opera here.“ What splendid pictures the thought of a second opera by Beethoven conjures before us! German art possesses great treasures among its works, but Fidelio will always be the greatest. A comprehensive review of the condition of our modern dramatic stage does not reveal any recent advance, and in one respect — singing — it has ...
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
... obviously retrograded. We have no singers in the real meaning of the word, for which we must ...

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