Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-08-04 | Page 5 | German Critics Dislike "Unfinished Symphony" Offer

J GER CRITICS DISLIKE UN UNFINISHED UNFINISHED UN- UN UNFINIShED FINISHED SYMPHONY OFFER I BERLIN By The Associated Press The The offer by an American concern of a prize of for completing Schubert's Unfinished Symphony S docs does not meet with favor faor among a the German critics Paul 1 l lanot of the Deutsche one of the best known kno mu mu- musical musical writers in Germany brands the offer as a nuisance and as IS a busl- busl business ness fleas trick trick trick-a a typical t American go- go getter setter stunt To finish Schubert's minor B sym sym- symphony symphony phony we re need need need-a a Schubert ich comments But he no longer lives among amon us us and even the Amer Asner- American ican magic wand wont won't discover him Under the most favorable conditions there will be an imitation of Schubert's Schubert's berts bert's style tyle But it will differ from the real Schubert as false diamonds differ from genuine The critic of the Rund Rund- hau finds that is a sum which had Schubert had but a a. little part of it U would have hae saved him from Irom many an embarrassment We fear however that even en if this sum were to be increased tenfold it would not call to life a new Schubert