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Friends in need.(Letter to the editor)
I must respectfully disagree with one of the historical examples in David Pryce-Jones's otherwise excellent "'Ancestral Voices Prophesying War'" (Dec. 19). In his overview of intellectuals who've supported radical causes, he sandwiches the Greek war of independence between the French revolution and the Spanish civil war. He characterizes Europeans who aided the Greeks as the usual "deceivers and dupes" who appear throughout history, but there's a critical difference here.
Lord Byron would have had to be currying favor with the Turkish sultans, not the Greek resistance, in 1821, to qualify as an intellectual dupe. The Greeks were fighting to rid themselves of an ...
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Ferdinand III, Emperor of Austria ( b Graz, 1608; d Vienna, 1657). Reigned from 1637. Est. It. opera in Vienna. Comp. Drama musicum (1649), Mass, motets, and other church mus. Monteverdi's 8th Book of Madrigals (1638) is dedicated to him.
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...to have been as hereditary in the Hapsburg family as a prominent chin. Several of the emperors were composers-notably Ferdinand III, Leopold I and Joseph I, who reigned consecutively from 1637 through 1711. Charles VI, who reigned after Joseph I to...
Source: HighBeam Research, Friends in need.(Letter to the editor)