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His Friend Andre: "For ome time he had had the ambition to create a collection if all that which both in Paris and its surroundings was iristic and picturesque," wrote his friend Andre Cal-nettes.29 Photographe d'art, photographer of works of it, he called himself, and he hand lettered the sign "Doc-iments pour artistes" for the door of his fifth-floor apart-nent-darkroom at 31 rue Campagne Premiere. A great leal of his work was photographing the historic buildings if Paris in detail. He made a series of photographs of iron pill work, another of the fountains of Paris.
It is remarkable that the great classic poets, not usually inclined to have their words set to music, took a strong liking to this transitional music. Zumsteeg was a friend of Schiller and composed music for some of his poetry. Goethe befriended Andre and. Reichardt, for whom he wrote Singspiel texts, showed interest in the melodrama, and corresponded extensively with Zelter.
Beethoven.—The development of classical music—centering in Vienna—was well under way when young Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) left his native Bonn in the Rhineland in 1792, to study with Haydn in the Austrian capital. He remained there until his death. Beethoven's genius was the most momentous German contribution to the so-called Viennese school.
I Near the south end of the village a tablet ks the place where, in September 1780, dur-the American Revolution, Benedict Arnold : British Maj. John Andre to plot his treacherous surrender of the American stronghold at West Point, which Arnold commanded. Another marker indicates the site of the home of Joshua Hett Smith, where Andre lodged after the meeting. Haverstraw was settled about 1740. It was incorporated as a village in 1854. Government is l>y mayor and council. Population: 5,771.HAVILAND CHINA, hav'a-bnd, is porcelain made by the Haviland factories in France and the United States. |
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