This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
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| 35601 | 2. Who was his first teacher? |
| 35601 | 3 JOSEPH HAYDN] Do you remember that once upon a time Joseph Haydn lived as court musician in the Esterhazy family? |
| 35601 | And does he not look kind? |
| 35601 | And the position of the left hand? |
| 35601 | But do you not think his face is a fine one? |
| 35601 | Do you see his baton and the score on the desk? |
| 35601 | Does he not have a round, good- natured face? |
| 35601 | Full of light and life and eagerness? |
| 35601 | In what Italian city did Liszt live? |
| 35601 | In what family did he live? |
| 35601 | Is it not wonderful to think of a man, so loved by the public, giving with such great generosity? |
| 35601 | What famous musician did he meet in Vienna? |
| 35601 | What great composer of opera did he assist? |
| 35601 | What great musician''s life was written by Franz Liszt? |
| 35601 | What was his father''s occupation? |
| 35601 | When and where did Franz Liszt die? |
| 35601 | When and where was Franz Liszt born? |
| 35601 | Where was his mother born? |
| 35601 | Whose songs did he arrange for piano? |
| 35601 | With whom did Franz study piano in Vienna? |
| 18138 | But what words am I to use in describing my happiness? |
| 18138 | Can you send me by bearer sixty thalers? 18138 Was I right in calling her a Musical fairy''?" |
| 18138 | And Therese? |
| 18138 | And why should she not love it? |
| 18138 | B."? |
| 18138 | Beethoven was a man of noble nature, yet what had he to offer her in return for her love? |
| 18138 | But how should he, an exile, secure its production? |
| 18138 | Decadence? |
| 18138 | Does it seem possible now that he had to struggle for twenty- five years before he could secure the production of his"Ring of the Nibelung"? |
| 18138 | For was it not the incomparable Delphine who was destined to"soothe the bitterness of sorrow"during his final hours on earth? |
| 18138 | How long did Delphine survive Chopin? |
| 18138 | If she was unable to discover his genius in these, how could she be expected to follow its loftier flights in his later works? |
| 18138 | In fact, has any woman, professional musician or not? |
| 18138 | Is it a wonder that but little more than a year after they met, the Princess decided to burn her bridges behind her and leave her husband? |
| 18138 | Is it not true-- those from the last year of his life are just as tender as those written during the first year of our marriage?" |
| 18138 | Realizing that his lame finger rendered him incapable of playing, he called out despairingly:"Who will lend me fingers?" |
| 18138 | Tell me if I could ask a better wife for myself?" |
| 18138 | Was it Fate-- or fatality-- that led him thither with Cosima? |
| 18138 | What did Wagner do? |
| 18138 | What drew him to Constance? |
| 18138 | What shall I do?" |
| 18138 | What would have become of them both, and of his genius with him?" |
| 18138 | When they finished singing, Minna asked Praeger:"Is it really as beautiful as you say? |
| 18138 | exclaimed the lady,"do you really love me so deeply?" |
| 39754 | ''Has he written for the piano, too?'' 39754 ''Now what is the second part of the first allegro like?'' |
| 39754 | ''What''s that? 39754 ''Where did you get such a ghastly idea?'' |
| 39754 | ''Where does Mr. Liszt live?'' 39754 Am I a piano teacher?" |
| 39754 | And Joseffy? |
| 39754 | And what soul thus cruelly bruised, when the tempest rolls away, seeks not to rest its memories in the pleasant calm of rural life? |
| 39754 | Before we had a chance to hint of one hope long deferred, that of hearing Liszt play, he asked,''Have you heard Bülow?'' 39754 Do we experience this exaltation nowadays? |
| 39754 | How is it, my esteemed and beloved friend, you have never forgiven? |
| 39754 | Is it possible, I ask, to make a more difficult avowal with more delicacy or greater frankness? 39754 Liszt smote his breast thrice, and continued:''I know a man( or is it indeed a human being?) |
| 39754 | The bit stuck in my mouth, and, trembling with indignation, I said sharply:''My prince, am I not your guest, too? |
| 39754 | What is life but a series of preludes to that unknown song whose initial solemn note is tolled by Death? 39754 What response did Liszt make to these rude words? |
| 39754 | You ask how he played? 39754 You would like to hear something about Liszt? |
| 39754 | _ Wer aber wird nun Liszt helfen?_This half humorous, half pathetic cry of his had its tragic significance. |
| 39754 | ''Well, what did you think of him?'' |
| 39754 | ''What are you doing, my dear friend?'' |
| 39754 | ''Will you play?'' |
| 39754 | ( Query: What is the symphonic archetype?) |
| 39754 | ( Which should you prefer hearing, the Norma of Thalberg or the Lucia of Liszt? |
| 39754 | ("O Lord, how long? |
| 39754 | A LISZT SON? |
| 39754 | A grim smile passed over the face of the great composer as he replied:"O Herr, wie lang?" |
| 39754 | Aloud, and in a tone of astonishment, Liszt repeated the words,''Received for my playing?'' |
| 39754 | Already on the way to Kalkbrenner( who plays a note of his now? |
| 39754 | Am I dreaming, or under a spell? |
| 39754 | And can not Weimar lay claim to a Tannhäuser performance as early as 1849, the Lohengrin production in 1850, and the Flying Dutchman in 1853? |
| 39754 | And do not I play in Ratibor, and with a Nachtigall? |
| 39754 | And how many more? |
| 39754 | And the public? |
| 39754 | And the third Mephisto Waltz for piano? |
| 39754 | And then were there not Liszt and his Princess Wittgenstein at Weimar, and the crew of pupils, courtiers and bohemians who collected at the Altenburg? |
| 39754 | And what soul thus cruelly bruised, when the tempest rolls away, seeks not to rest its memories in the calm of rural life? |
| 39754 | And when was there ever such a friend? |
| 39754 | Angelo consented willingly to pose for the piper, but all questions as to his family extraction were answered with a laconic Chi lo sa? |
| 39754 | Architecture is nearest allied to music in its fundamental principles-- can a formless house or church or any other building be imagined? |
| 39754 | Are there no more enchanters like Liszt? |
| 39754 | As a man or as an artist? |
| 39754 | At last she asked him in a cool and off- hand manner:"''Did you do a good stroke of business at the concert you gave in Italy?'' |
| 39754 | Brahms or Reger? |
| 39754 | But an apostate? |
| 39754 | But could she have foreseen that Richard Strauss, Parsifal- like, had caught the whizzing lance of the Klingsor of Weimar, what would she have said? |
| 39754 | But for what instrument were the sonatas of Beethoven composed? |
| 39754 | But seeing that Chopin evolved so much, why should he not also have evolved this? |
| 39754 | But what boots leading motives-- as old as the hills and Johann Sebastian Bach-- or symphonic poems nowadays? |
| 39754 | But what was it that happened? |
| 39754 | But what was to be done? |
| 39754 | But why did you talk about Kalkbrenner, and a sonata by him for the left hand? |
| 39754 | But, my dear friend, how was it two months ago at the Conservatory that with the same piece you produced such a wonderful effect? |
| 39754 | Did Liszt ever love? |
| 39754 | Did Wagner mean it all? |
| 39754 | Do his hands only attend to the office of a double winch on a street organ? |
| 39754 | Do we know many of the great artists capable of writing''the defective side of my talent''? |
| 39754 | Do you know the Polonaise, by Tschaïkowsky, transcribed by him? |
| 39754 | Do you not hear the croaking of Poe''s raven? |
| 39754 | Does not invention belong to such characteristic variation? |
| 39754 | Had she not been nicknamed"Fürstin Hinter- Liszt"because of the way she followed him from town to town when he was giving concerts? |
| 39754 | Has he to dispense with his brain and with his feelings in his mechanical execution of the prescribed performance? |
| 39754 | Has he to supply the ear only with a photograph of the object before him? |
| 39754 | Has n''t some one said,"See Naples and die-- of its smells?" |
| 39754 | Have I indeed heard Liszt? |
| 39754 | Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven had never written anything else; who would have dared to do other than they? |
| 39754 | He asks, is he never to be taken more seriously than as a pianist, is he not worthy of recognition as a musician, a composer? |
| 39754 | How can any one_ recite_ upon the pianoforte?" |
| 39754 | How did Liszt bear the disappointment? |
| 39754 | How does he accomplish this? |
| 39754 | How far will the pursuit of technic go, and what will be the effect upon the mechanical future of the instrument? |
| 39754 | How he treated the clarinet solo in the trio of the menuetto, and the winding of the rondo? |
| 39754 | How many to- day know the name of Anton Rubinstein''s master? |
| 39754 | How shall I describe what Liszt made of these genial movements on a first acquaintance? |
| 39754 | How shall I say it? |
| 39754 | I wonder what the mothers of these young Lisztians thought of their sons''tact and delicacy? |
| 39754 | I''ll be no longer a play actor; henceforth I''ll be a tragic poet''?" |
| 39754 | Is any man ever a hero to his biographer? |
| 39754 | Is he really a mere spiritless machine? |
| 39754 | Is it not a remarkable effort for an old gentleman of seventy- two? |
| 39754 | Is it not related that Pio Nono bestowed upon the great pianist the honour of hearing his confession at the time he became an abbé? |
| 39754 | Is not the shape exact?'' |
| 39754 | Is the latter not exquisitely idyllic? |
| 39754 | Is the music, in itself, good or bad? |
| 39754 | Is there a composer who paints the infernal, the macabre, with more suggestive realism than Liszt? |
| 39754 | Is this the art of a hypnotiser? |
| 39754 | It was merely a friendly recognition tempered by humility, as if he meant to ask:--"Why do you need my blessing, friend?" |
| 39754 | LISZT''S CONVERSION"Have you read the story of Liszt''s conversion as told by Emile Bergerat in Le Livre de Caliban?" |
| 39754 | Liszt wrote to Wagner, June 2, 1855:"Then you are reading Dante? |
| 39754 | Now, would not one do it better_ pp._ and staccato? |
| 39754 | Of what use indeed would such information be to you? |
| 39754 | Of whom? |
| 39754 | Otherwise how explain that yawning chasm between Lohengrin and Tristan? |
| 39754 | Rubinstein, who happened to be there, said to her:''You are not going to be so crazy as to play this concerto? |
| 39754 | Shall I often meet him? |
| 39754 | Stumble and trip like a vulgar pianist, or pretend to be stopped by a defective memory? |
| 39754 | Suddenly turning to the young Bizet, whose fine memory and ability he well knew, he said:"''Did you notice that passage?'' |
| 39754 | The fact is that out of the known 1,300 compositions, only 400 are original and of these latter how many are worth remembering? |
| 39754 | There is inspiration in it, but it does not reach(?!). |
| 39754 | This is C. A. Barry''s answer to the question, Why was Liszt obliged to invent the term symphonic poem? |
| 39754 | This now commonly accepted term had never previously been used, and people asked,"What does he mean? |
| 39754 | To him the Psalmist''s words,''How long shall they that hate me, be exalted against me?'' |
| 39754 | Was I wrong to say my_ Anch''io_ in this land of improvisation?'' |
| 39754 | Was the Church after all a disappointment to him? |
| 39754 | Wear evening dress? |
| 39754 | Were the piano to be abolished how could you have the exquisite joy of hearing Faure in your own chamber? |
| 39754 | What could he do in such a perplexing cause? |
| 39754 | What is it that brings into our dwellings an echo of the Conservatory concerts? |
| 39754 | What is it that gives us the opera at our own firesides? |
| 39754 | What is that? |
| 39754 | What was the matter? |
| 39754 | What wonder? |
| 39754 | Whenever did they present an Englishman with a_ silver breakfast service_ for gratuitous performances?'' |
| 39754 | Where am I? |
| 39754 | Wherefore two servants before the cell of a monk; or if attendant spirits, why were they not, according to monastic rules, simply lay brothers? |
| 39754 | Who remembers the Warsaw of 1831 except Chopin lovers? |
| 39754 | Who was the lady in the case? |
| 39754 | Who, before Franz Liszt, would have dreamed of employing cymbal- effects in legitimate piano playing? |
| 39754 | Why did not Scheffer paint him thus, instead of representing him as one of the three Magi? |
| 39754 | Why, then, the inevitable wail from the Lisztians that the Liszt music is not heard? |
| 39754 | Would n''t his Holiness dissolve the original chains so that she could marry the man of her election? |
| 39754 | and why this half failure? |
| 39754 | and, rising with that peculiar aristocratic grace, he says in a mild, condescending tone:''For my playing-- am I to sign this document? |