Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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Busoni , Letter to his wife ( Sodwand Arnold V rllon , horson 1938 ) translator > ( Addressed to Stockholm ) BERLIN , 17 July 1902 . The end of my concerto has now turned out just as I wished . I have almost finished the slow movement . Both the gay ” ones are sketched out too . If only it will go on like this .... It is raining horribly now ... The pieces which Reiny brought are just like the weather to - day . He -- Remy has the defect common to all Frenchmen , of being patriotic . He likes to find fault with what is German and to praise what is French , although he tries to be just . But in this respect he is 57 not altogether successful , for his Latin superficiality and im petuosity stand in his way . His judgment is always formed too quickly , and is clever at the expense of truth .... . Butni . Litters this Wale Partly from good nature , and partly from the pleasure I took in doing it , I wrote a Scenario for Maudi .. The story of a girl is told in pictures , with the very good title of “ The Dance of Life and Death . " A music - hall is seen on the stage with a scene in the style of a Beardsley picture ; a dancing hall in Paris ; a dance with barrel - organs in the streets of London ; and the end ( in my manner ) is mystical ; in a church , in front of a remarkable altar ; on it is a group of figures with the cross in the middle ; right and left , the figures of Death and the Angel of the Resurrection . There is a dance of Death , and much else . It could be very good , lovely , and true ; at the same time , it is made of the stuff which lasts . But-- ( All kinds of dances take place ; beginning with a sort of game of tennis , which is danced ; a gypsy dance , pantomime , Grande Valse , and cancan , street dance ( on the parapet of a bridge ) , religious dance , and the dance of death ) . I have written nothing for the church part of it yet , for that means oratorios . ( It's English , you know ) We went by car to Cambridge , in order to be able to get back , for there is no train so late . On the drive there it rained quite biblically , and we lost the way . It was quite amusing really ( doing it once ) and I arrived a quarter of an hour later than the concert was advertised to begin . ( Geo . Albert ) Backhaus was waiting in the rain in front of the concert hall , to the glori fication of his top - hat . He wanted to play the Chromatic Fan tasia himself , so that the audience should not be kept waiting !! I have the feeling that everything will go well now ; new spring , new buds . e P.220 Andove .