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Two Immortals
Mendel, Arthur | July 8, 1931 issue

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The article presents information about the book "Goethe and Beethoven," by Romain Rolland and translated by G. A. Pfister and E. S. Kemp. Described as a magnificent dual portrait of two poets, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ludwig van Beethoven and the woman who loved them both," this book is in fact a hastily thrown together and careless assortment of the material for half a dozen magazine articles, badly prepared, badly translated, and pretentiously issued. There are some interesting anecdotes and quotations from letters, hidden away in the appendix, and several handsome illustrations, but the body of the book is dull, sentimental, and unimportant.

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GOETHE & Beethoven (Book); ROLLAND, Romain, 1866-1944; POETS; VON Goethe, Johann Wolfgang; BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; ANECDOTES
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