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Anwhile, there is a steady _crescendo_, ending after three minutes of
truly tremendous music with ten sharp blasts of the double chord. A
moment of silence and a single trombone gives out a theme hitherto not
heard. It is the theme of tenderness, or, as the German commentators
call it, the _Biermad'l Motiv_: Thus: [Illustration: Musical Score]
Again silence. Then a single piccolo plays the closing cadence of the
composition: [Illustration: Musical Score] _Ruhm und Ewigkeit_ presents
enormous difficulties to the performers, and taxes the generalship of
the most skillful conductor. When it was in preparation at the
Gewandhaus the first performance was postponed twelve times in order to
extend the rehearsals. It was reported in the German papers at the time
that ten members of the orchestra, including the first flutist, Ewald
Loewenhals, resigned during the rehearsals, and tha