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Date: 1 May 2019
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Post No. 6331
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Mendelssohn ‘s friend Madame Frege sang to him a song with the words,
“Time marches on by night as well as day
And many march by night who fain would stay
Oh that has a dreary sound! The composer cried
with a shudder— but it is just what I feel “
He then suddenly rose, as pale as death, and
paced the room hurriedly, complaining that his hands were as cold as ice.
He died within a month.
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BRAHMS WONDERED!
Robert Fuchs, a reminiscent composer, was present one day when a highly Brahmsian composition of his was played to Brahms, and nearly fainted with embarrassment when the Master, assuming innocent bewilderment, asked him:
“But what piece of mine was that?”
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STOP THAT TERRIBLE MUSIC
Brahms attended a rehearsal of his clarinet
quintet, and was so touched that tears came to his eyes. To cover his emotion
he marched across the room, closed the first violin part and growled:
Stop the terrible music!
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MOZART
When Nietzsche one day observed to Wagner that
in Figaro, Mozart had invented the music of intrigue, Wagner replied:
“On the contrary! In Figaro Mozart dissolved the
intrigue in music.”
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FATHER’S INTERFERENCE
While George Gershwin was at work on the
Rhapsody in Blue, his father thrust his head into the room.
“Make it good, George”, he counselled, it might
be important.
So, indeed, it proved as Pa Gershwin was able to
demonstrate irrefutably to a doubting Thomas.
“Of course it is a great piece ! Doesn’t it take
fifteen minutes to play?”
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MEISTER, MEISTER
Brahms hates to be called Meister /Master or
Tonkunstler/ musical artist, for, he contented,
You might as well call me Cobblemaster or Maker
of Clay Stoves and have done with it.
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VAT IS DAT?
The first time the musical instrument called “the Serpent “ was used at a London concert over which the German composer Handel presided, he was so much surprised at the coarseness of its tones that he called out sharply:
“Vat a devil is dat?”
On being informed it was the Serpent, he
replied,
“It never can be de serpent vat seduced Eve”.
XXXX SUBHAM XXX
