#1854 - 1903)

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Две подруги, 1899г.

Карл Швенингер

Младший (1854-1903)

🔹️Австрийский художник   

     академического  

     направления.

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Red Chalk Drawings

Study for a Young Woman, 1890, Simeon Solomon

Head study of a Girl, 1903, Arthur Hughes

Louisa, wife of Murray Marks, 1868, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Portrait of a Woman, Alice Mary Chambers (b.1854/5)

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Jacek Malczewski (Polish, 1854-1929), Prawo. (Tryptyk Prawo, Ojczyzna, Sztuka) [Law. (Triptych Law, Country, Art)], 1903. Oil on panel, 69.5 x 98 cm. National Museum in Wrocław

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Royal Consorts (and almost-Consorts) of the House of Lorimer

1. Charlotte (1616-1667) - Philip I 2. Henrietta (1638-1729) - Charles III 3. Anne (1668-1690) - Philip II ✻ 4. Theodora (1675-1766) - Philip II (second wife) 5. Cosima (1701-1721) - Frederick I ✻ 6. Louise (1704-1782) - Edward IV 7. Patrick (1724-1796) - Augusta 8. Adelaide (1757-1833) - Arthur IV 9. Aveline (1780-1839) - Crown Prince Charles ✻ 10. Georgiana (1781-1866) - Frederick II 11. Joan (1805-1854) - Charles IV 12. Mary Josephine (1838-1916) - Philip III 13. Elizabeth (1865-1896) - Frederick III 14. Ernest (1887-1958) - Jane II ✻ 15. Catherine (1873-1975) - Richard V 16. Frances (1897-1924) - Arthur V ✻ 17. Alice (1903-1971) - Arthur V (second wife) 18. Rosamund (1927-) - Frederick IV 19. Laura (1956-) - Arthur VI 20. Natalie (1977-) - Crown Prince Richard ✻ 21. Carys (1995-) - Matilda II ✻

✻ indicates royal consorts that were never crowned

post inspired by @warwickroyals 💙

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Morgenstern ~ c.1903 ~ attributed to Carl Schweninger the Younger (Austrian painter, 1854-1912)

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Jenny Nystrom (1854-1946) 

Christmas Fairy tales, c.1903

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Footnotes

[1] I here gladly acknowledge my obligations to Victor Drury, {15} whose classification I adopt and follow.

{1} Actually Say may have gone farther.

{2} From Royal Commentaries of the Incas (1609) by El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (c. 1539-1616; not to be confused with the earlier Spanish writer of the same name); Lum quotes from the 1871 translation by Clements Markham.

{3} Principles of Sociology I.ii.10

{4} Probably American historian John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877).

{5} Swiss historian and economist Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773-1842).

{6} Jack Cade, leader of 1450 peasant rebellion; John Wycliffe, 14th-century Catholic dissident; Jacob van Artevelde and Philip van Artevelde, father and son, 14th-century Flemish nationalist leaders; Étienne Marcel, bourgeois leader involved in the 1358 French peasant rebellion known as the Jacquerie; rising of the Swiss cantons: a 14th-century confederacy that threw off Habsburg rule; Cola di Rienzi, 14th-century Italian revolutionary leader; Hanseatic League, Renaissance mercantile alliance of northern Europe.

{7} A reference to Auguste Comte’s (1798-1857) division of history into theological, metaphysical, and positive/industrial phases, though in his description of the details Lum seems closer to Spencer than to Comte.

{8} Barebone’s Parliament, form taken by the British Parliament in 1653, between the dissolution of the Rump Parliament and the rise of Cromwell’s Protectorate, taking its name from the involvement of religious dissenting leader Praise-God Barebones or Barebone or Barbon (c. 1598-1679); Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748-1836), French revolutionary leader who served in the national legislature known as the Convention.

{9} “Progress and Order” (or equally “Order and Progress”) was a popular slogan among followers of Comte; see the Brazilian flag.

{10} Pen name of American humorist Benjamin Drew (1812-1903).

{11} Bonds payable only upon the death of a third party, though here used metaphorically to mean payable only in the afterlife.

{12} “The voice of the people [is] the voice of God.”

{13} Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), whose description of economics as “the dismal science” has often been thought (as probably here by Lum) to refer to its conservative aspects (e.g., Malthus’s alleged proof that improvements in the lot of the working class were unattainable), though in fact Carlyle meant to be condemning its liberal aspects (specifically its opposition to slavery).

{14} plural sic.

{15} Victor Drury (1825-1918), French-born American anarchist active in the Knights of Labor.

{16} William Godwin (1756-1836), English anarchist philosopher who advocated voluntary equality of property.

{17} American economist Henry George (1839-1897), who though generally a free-market advocate regarded society as the legitimate owner of all land, and consequently favoured replacing all taxation with a single tax on land; American state-socialist writer Edward Bellamy (1850-1898); Lum’s line “looking backward to Sparta and Peru” is a sarcastic reference to Bellamy’s utopian 1888 novel Looking Backward.

{18} A reference to an example in Henry George’s 1881 book The Land Question.

{19} German economist Wilhelm Roscher (1817-1894), an important influence (perhaps surprisingly) on both the German Historical School and the French Liberal School. The passage quoted is from Joseph Lalor’s 1878 translation of Roscher’s 1854 Principles of Political Economy.

{20} A frequent misquotation from Shakespeare’s Tempest IV.1.151-57, eliding “the baseless fabric of this vision” with “we are such stuff as dreams are made on” a few lines later.

{21} English economist David Ricardo (1772-1823) had argued in his 1817 Principles of Political Economy and Taxation that there was a natural tendency for wages to approach the cost of production of labour, which he held to be the bare cost of keeping the labourer alive and able and willing to work; however, he also held a) that wages may be kept above this natural rate indefinitely in an improving economy, and that b) willingness to work depends in any case on cultural factors (including prevailing standards of comfort and decency). Dropping these qualifications, Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864) and other socialist thinkers developed Ricardo’s theory into an Iron Law of Wages according to which wages are doomed to stand forever at bare physical subsistence so long as the wage system survives.

{22} Classical liberal English statesman John Bright (1811-1889), free-trade and anti-imperialist activist; the quotation is from Bright’s Glasgow University installation speech in March 1883.

{23} Whatever source Lum is quoting (presumably by Henry George) is evidently to be found reprinted in the 1901 Sunset Club.

{24} In Greek mythology Cerberus was the three-headed dog who guarded the entrance to the underworld.

{25} A standard Spencerian concern, taking the line of progress to run toward greater differentiation. By “to greater differentiation” Lum presumably means “in preference to greater differentiation.”

{26} The quotation is from Spencer’s 1876 Principles of Sociology V.18 §570.

{27} This phrase often means “piecework,” but in the present context seems to mean labour done on one’s own without cooperation.

{28} The English phrase “to go without saying” derives from the French aller sans dire, although aller de soi, “to go of itself,” may be the more common French idiom.

{29} Lum had had an acrimonious falling-out with the Greenback Party ten years earlier.

{30} Change of antecedent sic.

{31} Presumably there should also be a hyphen between “from” and the first “day.”

{32} An agrarian association friendly to the urban labour movement, formed in Michigan in 1889; a similar movement of the same name was formed in Ontario the following year.

{33} The passage that follows is drawn from the article “‘Greatest Happiness’ Principle” (Westminster Review XI, no 21 (July 1829), which is apparently but not explicitly by Bentham; see Macaulay’s discussion.

{34} The quotation which follows is from Herbert’s “A Politican in Sight of Haven.”

{35} Principles of Sociology V.xviii.563.

{36} Probably a reference to the title of Henry George’s 1879 Progress and Poverty.

{37} Either American economist Amasa Walker (1799-1875) or his son Francis Amasa Walker (1840-1897).

{38} American anarchist and currency reformer William Batchelder Greene (1819-1878).

{39} Hebrews 11:1.

{40} This makes no sense, and is an error for “will not go bankrupt at the same tine” in the original.

{41} Should be “since it is subscribed.”

{42} From Proudhon’s Organisation of Credit and Circulation (1848).

{43} Science of Wealth (1866), ch. 5.

{44} Another quotation from Roscher.

{45} “The great thinker is the secretary of his age”: from English philosopher George Henry Lewes (1817-1878), Problems of Life and Mind (1874).

{46} The Land Question (1881), ch. 16.

{47} Bavarian-American anarcho-communist Johann Most (1846-1906).

{48} French novelist Edmond François Valentin About (1828-1885).

{49} First quotation from Rights of Man (1792), II.1; next three from First Principles of Government (1795).

{50} Reference to a quotation from Malthus.

{51} Science of Wealth, XI.6.

{52} American abolitionist, businessman, liberal economist, and antiwar activist Edward Atkinson (1827-1905).

{53} German-American anarchist August Spies (1855-1877), one of the Haymarket martyrs.

{54} Isaiah 58:1.

{55} American abolitionist poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), in “Stanzas for the Times.”

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, September 18, in 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone of the United States Capitol Building. He was aided by eight Freemasons dressed in full masonic regalia marking the beginning of a period of construction that lasted seven years and the dawning of the growth of the nation. In 1792, Thomas Jefferson put out a call for architectural design submissions for the Capitol Building and was won over by a late entry from amateur architect William Thornton. Thornton’s design was officially approved in April of 1793, with the caveat that French architect Stephen Hallet would review and modify his plans as needed.

Architect Glenn Brown (1854-1932) explored the history and design of the Capitol Building in his book History of the United States Capitol, published in two volumes by the Government Publishing Office from 1900-1903. For a decade, Brown worked with numerous institutions and organizations to gather plans, illustrations, and the history of the building through architecture and interior design. He highlights that the importance of the building’s merit is not just in its construction and completeness, but its aspirations. Historian Charles Moore, secretary to Michigan Senator James McMillan, writes in the introduction, “[T]he Capitol is not a creation, but a growth, and its highest value lies in the fact that it never was, and it never will be, finished.”

View other Milestone Monday posts.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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irl bsd authors

i haven't found a list of irl bsd authors listed from oldest to most recent so i decided to do that. multiple lists for date of birth, death, and publication of the work their ability is based on (if applicable) + fun stuff at the end

birth dates (oldest to most recent)

alexander pushkin - 6 Jun 1799

nathaniel hawthorne - 4 Jul 1804

edgar allan poe - 19 Jan 1809

nikolai gogol - 1 Apr 1809

ivan gonchorav - 18 Jun 1812

herman melville - 1 Aug 1819

fyodor dostoevsky - 11 Nov 1821

jules verne - 8 Feb 1828

saigiku jōno - 24 Sep 1832

louisa may alcott - 29 Nov 1832

yukichi fukuzawa - 10 Jan 1835

mark twain - 30 Nov 1835

ōchi fukuchi - 13 May 1841

paul verlaine - 30 Mar 1844

bram stoker - 8 Nov 1847

tetchō suehiro - 15 Mar 1849

arthur rimbaud - 20 Oct 1854

ryūrō hirotsu - 15 Jul 1861

ōgai mori - 17 Feb 1862

h. g. wells - 21 Sep 1866

natsume sōseki - 9 Feb 1867

kōyō ozaki - 10 Jan 1868

andré gide - 22 Nov 1869

doppo kunikida - 30 Aug 1871

katai tayama - 22 Jan 1872

ichiyō higuchi - 2 May 1872

kyōka izumi - 4 Nov 1873

lucy maud montgomery - 30 Nov 1874

akiko yosano - 7 Dec 1878

santōka taneda - 3 Dec 1882

teruko ōkura - 12 Apr 1886

jun'ichirō tanizaki - 24 Jul 1886

yumeno kyūsaku - 4 Jan 1889

h. p. lovecraft - 20 Aug 1890

agatha christie - 15 Sep 1890

ryūnosuke akutagawa - 1 Mar 1892

ranpo edogawa - 21 Oct 1894

kenji miyazawa - 27 Aug 1896

f. scott fitzgerald - 24 Sep 1896

margaret mitchell - 8 Nov 1900

motojirō kajii - 17 Feb 1901

mushitarō oguri - 14 Mar 1901

john steinbeck - 27 Feb 1902

aya kōda - 1 Sep 1904

ango sakaguchi - 20 Oct 1906

chūya nakahara - 29 Apr 1907

atsushi nakajima - 5 May 1909

osamu dazai - 19 Jun 1909

sakunosuke oda - 26 Oct 1913

michizō tachihara - 30 Jul 1914

tatsuhiko shibusawa - 8 May 1928

(ace) alan bennett - 9 May 1934

yukito ayatsuji - 23 Dec 1960

mizuki tsujimura - 29 Feb 1980

death dates (oldest to most recent)

alexander pushkin - 10 Feb 1837

edgar allan poe - 7 Oct 1849

nikolai gogol - 4 Mar 1852

nathaniel hawthorne - 19 May 1864

fyodor dostoevsky - 9 Feb 1881

louisa may alcott - 6 Mar 1888

ivan goncharov - 27 Sep 1891

herman melville - 28 Sep 1891

arthur rimbaud - 10 Nov 1891

paul verlaine - 8 Jan 1896

tetchō suehiro -  5 Feb 1896

ichiyō higuchi - 23 Nov 1896

yukichi fukuzawa - 3 Feb 1901

saigiku jōno - 24 Jan 1904

jules verne - 24 Mar 1905

kōyō ozaki - 30 Oct 1903

ōchi fukuchi - 4 Jan 1906

doppo kunikida - 23 Jun 1908

mark twain - 21 Apr 1910

bram stoker - 20 Apr 1912

natsume sōseki - 9 Dec 1916

ōgai mori - 8 Jul 1922

ryūrō hirotsu - 25 Oct 1928

ryūnosuke akutagawa - 24 Jul 1927

katai tayama - 13 May 1930

motojirō kajii - 24 Mar 1932

kenji miyazawa - 21 Sep 1933

yumeno kyūsaku - 11 Mar 1936

h. p. lovecraft - 15 Mar 1937

chūya nakahara - 22 Oct 1937

michizō tachihara - 29 Mar 1939

kyōka izumi - 7 Sep 1939

santōka taneda - 11 Oct 1940

f. scott fitzgerald - 21 Dec 1940

lucy maud montgomery - 24 Apr 1942

mushitarō oguri - 10 Feb 1946

h. g. wells - 13 Aug 1946

akiko yosano - 29 May 1942

atsushi nakajima - 4 Dec 1942

sakunosuke oda - 10 Jan 1947

osamu dazai - 13 Jun 1948

margaret mitchell - 16 Aug 1949

andré gide - 19 Feb 1951

ango sakaguchi - 17 Feb 1955

teruko ōkura - 18 Jul 1960

ranpo edogawa - 28 Jul 1965

jun'ichirō tanizaki - 30 Jul 1965

john steinbeck - 20 Dec 1968

agatha christie - 12 Jan 1976

tatsuhiko shibusawa - 5 Aug 1987

aya kōda - 31 Oct 1990

(ace) allan bennett - still alive

yukito ayatsuji - still alive

mizuki tsujimura - still alive

work (oldest to most recent)

alexander pushkin - A Feast in Time of Plague, 1830

edgar allan poe - The Murders in Rue Morgue, 1841

nikolai gogol - The Overcoat, 1842

edgar allan poe - The Black Cat, 19 Aug 1843

nathaniel hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter, 1850

herman melville - Moby-Dick, 1851

louisa may alcott - Little Women, 1858

fyodor dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment, 1866

ivan goncharov - The Precipice, 1869

yukichi fukuzawa - An Encouragement of Learning, 1872-76

jules verne - The Mysterious Island, 1875

mark twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876

mark twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

tetchō suehiro - Plum Blossoms in the Snow, 1886

arthur rimbaud - Illuminations, 1886

saigiku jōno - Priceless Tears, 1889

ōchi fukuchi - The Mirror Lion, A Spring Diversion, Mar 1893

ryūrō hirotsu - Falling Camellia, 1894

h. g. wells - The Time Machine, 1895

kōyō ozaki - The Golden Demon, 1897

bram stoker - Dracula, 1897 (his ability has not been named, but c’mon, vampires)

akiko yosano - Thou Shall Not Die, 1903

natsume sōseki - I Am a Cat, 1905-06

katai tayama - Futon, 1907

lucy maud montgomery - Anne of Green Gables, 1908

ōgai mori - Vita Sexualis, 1909

andré gide - Strait is the Gate, 1909

kyōka izumi - Demon Pond, 1913

ryūnosuke akutagawa - Rashomon, 1915

motojirō kajii - Lemon, 1924

f. scott fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, 1925

kenji miyazawa - Be not Defeated by the Rain, 3 Nov 1931

santōka taneda - Self-Derision, 8 Jan 1932

mushitarō oguri - Perfect Crime, 1933

chūya nakahara - This Tainted Sorrow, 1934

yumeno kyūsaku - Dogra Magra, 1935

margaret mitchell - Gone With the Wind, 1936

john steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath, 1939

agatha christie - And Then There Were None, 6 Nov 1939

atsushi nakajima - The Moon Over the Mountain, Feb 1942

jun'ichirō tanizaki - The Makioka Sisters, 1943-48

ango sakaguchi - Discourse on Decadence, 1946

teruko ōkura - Gasp of the Soul, 1947

osamu dazai - No Longer Human, 1948

(ace) alan bennett - The Madness of King George III, 1995

yukito ayatsuji - Another, 2005

mizuki tsujimura - Yesterday’s Shadow Tag, 2015

can’t find dates:

michizō tachihara - Midwinter Memento 

sakunosuke oda - Flawless

n/a: doppo kunikida, ranpo edogawa, ichiyō higuchi, h. p. lovecraft “Great Old Ones” (fictional ancient dieties eg. cthulhu), aya koda, paul verlaine, tatsuhiko shibusawa “Draconia” (umbrella term for shibusawa’s works/style) 

bonus:

elise - The Dancing Girl (1890) by ōgai mori

shōsaku katsura - An Uncommon Common Man by doppo kunikida

Nobuko Sasaki (20 Jul 1878 - 22 Sep 1949) - doppo kunikida’s first wife

gin akutagawa - O-gin (1922) by ryūnosuke akutagawa

naomi tanizaki + kirako haruno - Naomi (1925) by jun'ichirō tanizaki

t. j. eckelburg + tom buchanan - The Great Gatsby (1925) by f. scott fitzgerald

the black lizard - Back Lizard (1895) by ryūrō hirotsu (+ The Black Lizard (1934) by ranpo edogawa)

some fun facts:

the oldest: aya koda 86, andré gide 81, h. g. wells 79, jun'ichirō tanizaki 79, ivan goncharov 79 (alan bennett is 89 but still alive)

the youngest: ichiyō higuchi 24, michizō tachihara 24, chūya nakahara 30

yukito ayatsuji’s Another is also an anime, released in 2012

both edgar allan poe and mark twain’s ability consist of two of the author’s work

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"Сорока"

Карл Швенингер-младший (Германия, 1854 - 1903)

[venustapolis]

A Doe with Fawn (Carl Schweninger, Jr, 1854 - 1903)

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Esoterica

I° esposizione internazionale d'arte decorativa, Torino, 1902 (Collezione Soleri, Torino) | Leonardo Bistolfi (1859-1933, Italia) |

La Superbia (Mira qui come va senza ritegno la cecitade humana al cieco regno), 1679 (British Museum) | Giovanni Maria Mitelli (1634-1718, Italia)

Pornocratès - La dame au cochon, 1896 (Musée Félicien Rops, Namur, Belgium) | Félicien Rops (1833-1898, Belgium) et Albert Bertrand (1852-1912, France)

Los Proverbios, 1817-23 | Francisco Goya (1746-1828, España)

Surreal nude with candle - occult photo, 1950's |cph., Zoltán Glass (1903-1982, Hungary)

Jacobs Dream, 1805 | William Blake (1757-1827, England)

Carnevale | Italico Brass (1870-1943, Italia)

The joyous festival, 1906 ca. | Gaston La Touche (1854-1913, France)

Clouds, Lauterbrunnen Valley, 1901 | Charles Giron (1850-1914, Switzerland)

I cavalieri della nebbia (the knights of the fog), 1896 | Albert Welti

Fairies dances in the woods with faun on gramophone, 1925

Idolo nero (idole noire), 1903 | Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957, Czechia)

The path of silence, 1903 | Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957, Czechia)

Nymphs dancing to Pan's flute | Joseph Tomanek (1889-1974, Czechia - USA)

Oberon, Titania and Puck with fairies dancing, 1786 | William Blake (1757-1827, England)

s/t (w/t), 1975 (Sanok Museum, Poland) |  Zdzisław Beksinki (1929-2005, Poland)

AA72, 1972 |  Zdzisław Beksinki (1929-2005, Poland)

Dance on the beach, 1900-02 | Edvard Munch (1863.1944, Swedev)

Summer, 1890's | Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938, USA)

Summer evening, 1947 | Edward Hopper (1882-1967, USA)

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Birthdays 6.18

Beer Birthdays

William Lassell (1799)

Thomas M. Dukehart (1835)

Sigmund O. Mitler (1850)

Brad Klipner (1976)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Paul Eddington; English actor (1927)

James Montgomery Flagg; illustrator, artist (1877)

James Mallory; English mountaineer, explorer (1886)

Paul McCartney; rock bassist, songwriter (1942)

Chris Van Allsburg; writer, illustrator (1949)

Famous Birthdays

Brian Bebben; actor (1956)

Richard Boone; actor (1917)

Barbara Broccoli; film producer (1960)

Lou Brock; St. Louis Cardinals LF (1939)

Sammy Cahn; songwriter, lyricist (1913)

Roger Ebert; film critic (1942)

Henry Clay Folger; philanthropist (1857)

Gail Godwin; writer (1937)

Carol Kane; actor (1952)

Kay Kyser; bandleader (1897)

Edouard Le Roy; French philosopher, mathematician (1870)

Jeanette MacDonald; actor, singer (1903)

E.G. Marshall; actor (1914)

Ray McKinley; jazz drummer (1910)

Robert Mondavi; winemaker (1913)

Alison Moyet; pop singer (1961)

Sylvia Field Porter; economist, journalist (1913)

Isabella Rossellini; actor (1952)

Frithjof Schuon; Swiss metaphysician, poet, artist (1907)

E.W. Scripps; journalist, publisher (1854)

Blake Shelton; country singer (1976)

Joseph-Marie Vien; French artist (1716)

Alexander Wetmore; ornithologist (1886)

[noneofthisisreal]

A nonce word tantrum meant penis. In Slang and its Analogues Past and Present (1904), John Stephen Farmer (1854-1916) and William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) mention its occurrence in Burlesque upon Burlesque: or, The Scoffer Scoft. Being some of Lucians Dialogues, newly put into English fustian for the Consolation of those who had rather Laugh and be Merry, then be Merry and Wise (London, 1675), a translation by the English author Charles Cotton (1630-87) of dialogues written in Greek by the satirist Lucian of Samosata (circa 125-180); here, Bacchus tells Apollo that Priapus has sodomised him (nock means bum):

the disputed origin of ‘tantrum’ – word histories

[the-clay-quarters]

hey gang today on looking up random shit for flondon reasons: from 1854 to 1903 it took 1.5 hours to cross the british channel via steam boat ferry

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Composer-pianist Moritz Moszkowski (1854 – 1925) dies in Paris. As a young man, Moszkowski studied piano in Dresden and Berlin, where he also gave his first public concert in 1873. His two books of “Spanische Tänze” (“Spanish Dances,” Opus 12) were published in 1876, and they proved to be an immediate hit; they have remained enduringly popular examples of “nationalist” music written in a lighter vein. Moszkowski proved to be a prolific composer, albeit one who generally focused on “salon” music; he ultimately penned over two hundred small-scale piano pieces which brought him much popularity in his own day. Today, however, Moszkowski is probably best known for his fifteen “Études de Virtuosité” (“Virtuosic Etudes,” Op. 72), as well as a handful of small and brilliant piano pieces which continue to delight audiences across the world as glittering encores in solo piano recitals. One particularly famous example of the latter group of works is “Étincelles” (“Sparks”) -- a particular favorite of legendary 20th Century super-virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz (1903 - 1989). A highly gifted virtuoso pianist himself, Moszkowski’s own concert career was unfortunately cut short after he began suffering from a neurological problem in his arm in the mid-1880s which forced him to re-focus his energies on composing and teaching. Luckily, he proved to have substantial gifts in the latter field, as well -- his diverse array of students included famed British conductor Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961), who took private lessons in orchestration with him; Josef Hofmann (1876 - 1957), of whom he claimed once that there was nothing anyone could teach him; and Wanda Landowska (1879 - 1959). PICTURED: A c. 1890s cabinet photo showing the middle-aged Moszkowski, which he signed and inscribed to a fan in Paris in 1898 -- also including a short autograph musical quotation from an unknown work.