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For the one nearest you and for detailed literature: HIGH FIDELITY MAGAZINE www.americanradiohistory.com IHiyh 3idelity T H E AI A G A Z. I . fE F O R M U S I C L I S T E N E R S This Issue. Obstetrics and pediatrics were Volume 6 Number I January 1956 medical arts not well understood in the eighteenth century. In consequence, of six children born to Johann Georg Leopold Roland Gelatt served as special editor of this Mozart memorial issue. Mozart and his wife Anna Maria, only two lived. One sixth of this pathetic vital statistic is what music lovers the world AUTHORitatively Speaking 4 over are celebrating in 1956. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born January 27, The Listener's Bookshelf, by R. D. Darrell xo 1756, and managed to survive through 24 thirty-five years of exciting but certainly not Noted With Interest very happy existence, in the course of which Letters ... .... 33 he contributed to scores of millions of people yet unborn the moments of greatest Swap -a- Record 46 pure beauty in their lives. When Mozart was five years old, the Emperor Francis I At the Thought of Mozart, by Aaron Copland 53 called him "der kleine Hexenmeister" - A Guest Editorial the little magician - which may have been the most penetrating remark the Emperor The Miracle of Mozart, by Sacheverell Sitwell 54 ever made. The Little Magician grew to An appreciation across two centuries. be a Great Magician, as is evidenced in the 56 potency of his magic. The spells he cast Would Mozart Have Been a Hi -Fi Fan ?, by R. D. Darrell have not waned in two centuries: this year A question not so silly as - the author admits - it sounds they will cause many thousands of people to cross oceans, many millions of money Mozart's Beecham in Action, by Robert Charles Marsh 58 to change hands, many a troubled human What makes an interpreter great? mind to shed its pettiness for a space of 61 minutes or hours. This latter success, at On First Hearing Mozart, by Gerald Abraham least, Mozart would have wanted; the want Only now are some smaller- scaled masterpieces being made to our ears. is written in his music. available It would be pretentious for this or any The Tapes are Twirling, by Simon Bourgin .. 63 other twentieth -century magazine to set All across the Old World, microphones are soaking up Mozart. out to honor Mozart. The intent of the staff of HIGH FIDELITY, in assembling this Twenty Analysts in Search of a Soul, by Nathan Broder 65 Mozart memorial issue, has been simply to The temptation to evaluate and explain a genius is irresistible. express a devotion. Portraits of a Genius, by Otto Erich Deutsch 67 The problem: what did the man really look like? CHARLES FOWLER, Publisher W. A. Mozart - A Pictorial Essay 69 -84 JOHN M. CONLY, Editor Edited by Roland Gelatt, with the assistance of Simon Bourgin, ROY H. HOOPES, JR., Managing Editor O. E. Deutsch and Roy Lindstrom. J. GORDON HOLT, Assistant Editor Europe's Mozart Festival Year, by Simon Bourgin 85 ROY F. ALLISON, Associate Editor Music Makers, by Roland Gelatt 89 ROY LINDSTROM, Art Director Editorial Assistants Record Section ._ 93-137 MIRIAM D. MANNING; JOAN GRIFFITHS Records in Review; Dialing Your Disks; Building Your Record library; Mozart on Records, A Selective Discography, by ROLAND GELATT, New York Editor C. G. Burke. Contributing Editors 158 C. G. BURKE Trader's Marketplace JAMES HINTON, JR. Professional Directory 16o CORA R. HOOPES ROBERT CHARLES MARSH FM Directory 161 WARREN B. SYER, Business Manager SEAVER B. BUCK, JR., Circulation Advertising Index 163 Director High Fidelity Magazine is published monthly by Audiocom, Inc.. at Great Barrington, Mass. Telephone: Great Barrington 1300. Editorial publication. and circulation offices at: The Publishing House, Great Branch Offices (Advertising only): New York: Barrington. Mass. Subscriptions: $6.00 per year in the United States and Canada. Single copies: 60 rents Room 600, 6 East 39th Street. Telephone: each. Editorial contributions will he welcomed by the editor. Payment for articles accepted will he arranged Murray Hill 5 -6332. Fred C. Michalove, Eastern prior to publication. Unsolicited manuscripts should he accompanied by return postage. Entered as Manager.-Chicago: John R. 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