Oswald Spengler wrote that the peak of achievement of Western music lay in the string quartets written at the end of the 18th century. Certainly. as am art form, the string quartets of Mozart and Haydn are uns. The combination of a perfect applied form, a perfect musical form and the almost complete balance of. timbre of the four instruments has given us the purest music we have. By a comparison with this standard the quality of all chamber music can be readily appraised.
This form has proved an irresist" able attraction for almost every composer, although few have been successful. For in addition to Grieg most composers like Cesar Franck, Verdi, Ravel, Strauss and Debussy have written only one each. In these cases it, would Seem that even the composer was not satisfied with his own work and that he decided in future to keep away from a form which, however perfect, demands a care and restraint foreign' to the nature of most composers of the last hundred years.
Shortcomings Revealed Religious Education:
Two Points of View To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dany News"
Sm—R. G. M/s letter seems to advocate in religious matters an atmosphere of fog, the kind of condition which would enable a Gallop Poll to record that 100 per cent. were undecided. His fourth paragraph brands ELUCIATOR and myself as narrow-minded: Exucmator because he is dissatisfied with a governmental decision on religious education, myself because I am satisfied.
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