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 | | The most famous conductors are Herr Jahn, manager of the Imperial Court Opera; Herr Hans Richter, conductor of the orchestra at the Opera; the Helmesbergers, father and son; and, for light music, both as composers and conductors, Messrs. |
 | | He said that the airs or melodies of a race, exquisite as they often were, especially among the Slavonic nations, could never be considered as forming the basis of its future music, indeed they were hardly ever to be found in the text, unless some composer had taken the trouble to note them down. |
 | | Professor Mandyczewski thought his musical compatriot, Professor Dvorak, was influenced greatly by his surroundings, for in no German or Slavonic musical literature (though he admitted that there might be in English musical literature) was any passage referring to negro melodies as forming a basis for a country's future music to be found. |
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