Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Lili Kraus plays Mozart’s D Minor Fantasy, K. 397, in a rare kinescope of a 1957 TV performance:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“I began to really feel victory in defeat as there is defeat in the most radiant victory. The two are one and the interplay is man’s life until he is so free that he is not aiming at anything but the highest state: liberation in love.”
Lili Kraus, letter to Frans Schreuder (March 30, 1980)