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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
[St. Thomas Church] is almost as it was about a generation ago, when, up at the organ that he had outfitted by his own means, Karl Straube performed during the night hours for a small host of delighted and musically enthusiastic students, playing the great organ works of the venerable Johann Sebastian and putting forth, virginally so to speak, the newest thing that Max Reger had just written. Then, only the quivering strips of the streetlamps scampered over the windows, and the only light glowed overwhelmingly from the organ console, amplified by the white pages of the score. But in the darkness of the nave's high arches, all the good spirits were awake.
—Franz Adam Beyerlein, “Verdunkelte Motette,” ca. 1940; StAL Thomasschule 21, undated memoir appended to Marie Luise Fischer, “Singet dem Herrn. Annalen und Chronik von St. Thomae nach vorhandenen Urkunden bearbeitet” (typescript, October 1935), 278To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
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