Mountain and Mouse.

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  • Author(s): Flint, R. W.
  • Source:
    Nation. 6/4/1949, Vol. 168 Issue 23, p642-642. 1/4p.
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    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on two books "Wagner," by W.J. Turner and "Beethoven," by Alan Pryce-Jones. Musical biography, one gathers from these two new additions to the A.A. Wyn series, is finally catching up to the spirit of the "higher" Biblical criticism. The culprit is now assumed guilty unless proved innocent. In Alan Pryce-Jones's prosecution of Beethoven the game is about as interesting as the old defensive operations and about as relevant. Beethoven, to be frank, takes a terrific beating, both in the chapters devoted intensively to finding him a repulsive human misfit and the Enal chapter devoted to perpetuating the latest collection of fashionable superstitions about his music.