FORGOTTEN MELODIES
STRAUSS MANUSCRIPTS
COMPOSER'S LUCKY FIND
LONDON, October 16.
Two hundred manuscripts of forgotten melodies by Johann Strauss were* rescued from a dnst-heap in Vienna, when Dr. Wilhekn Grosz, composer of the popular dance "Isle of Capri," happened to be passing a refuse lorry clearing debris from an old house. He paid the equivalent of half a crown for a bundle of manuscripts!, utterly unaware of their real value. Oa examining them at home he found many in tho handwriting of Strauss.
A selection will be broadcast from London on November 1, with words specially written by Captain Harry Graham.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1934, Page 13
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101FORGOTTEN MELODIES Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 94, 18 October 1934, Page 13
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