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  • To John, Willie and so many of my favorite bartenders, Phil Dussek and all my fellow “Tavernites” who watched me dance and have good clean fun letting off steam: God Bless You All.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • To John, Willie and so many of my favorite bartenders, Phil Dussek and all my fellow “Tavernites” who watched me dance and have good clean fun letting off steam: God Bless You All.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • He also flattered his pupils by giving them music that was beyond their powers of execution: those, for instance, who had worked long and with feeble interest at Czerny, Dussek and

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • From the far side of the house through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages — twenty times repeated — of a sonata by Dussek.

    War and Peace 2003

  • She came of a musical family, for she was one of the sisters of Dussek, whose wife and daughter have already been mentioned in connection with

    Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

  • Then Dussek entered and made away with the lot, leaving but the bones!

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • Dussek was a famous eater, and it is said that his ruling passion eventually killed him.

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • Here, throwing off his critic's black gown, his lays about him right and left, knocking the reigning idols off their perches; resurrecting the old, old dead and trying to pump the breath into them; lambasting on one page and lauding on the next; lampooning his fellow critics and burlesquing their rubber stamp fustian; extolling Dussek and damning Wagner; swearing mighty oaths by Mozart, and after him, Strauss -- not Richard, but Johann!

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • Herr Dreckendorf gave me some studies by Dussek, Cramer, the

    Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917

  • Salomon followed on the 21st of April with a performance at the King's Theatre, Mara and Dussek taking the principal parts.

    Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902

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