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The Devil in a Nunnery: Devil Stories
Paperback
Series: Classic Horror Stories
ISBN13: 9781976251047
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 10 2017
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.08
Height: 0.05 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
The Devil in a Nunnery by Francis Oscar Mann
According to a German legend, the devil is master of all arts, and certainly he has given sufficient proof of his musical talent. Certain Church Fathers ascribed, not without good reason, the origin of music to Satan. The Devil, says Mr. Huneker in his diabolical story The Supreme Sin (1920), is the greatest of all musicians, and Rowland Hill long ago admitted the fact that the devil has all the good tunes. Perhaps his greatest composition is the Sonata del Diavolo, which Tartini wrote down in 1713. This diabolical master-piece is the subject of Gérard de Nerval's story La Sonate du Diable (1830). While the devil plays all instruments equally well, he seems to prefer the violin. Satan appears as fiddler in the poem Der Teufel mit der Geige, which has been ascribed to the Swiss anti-Papist Pamphilus Gengenbach of the sixteenth century. In Leanu's Faust (1836) Mephistopheles takes the violin out of the hands of one of the musicians at a peasant-wedding and plays a diabolical czardas, which fills the hearts of all who hear it with voluptuousness. An opera Un Violon du Diable was played in Paris in 1849. The Devil's Violin, an extravaganza in verse by Benjamin Webster, was performed the same year in London. In his story Les Tentations ou Eros, Plutus et la Gloire Baudelaire presents the Demon of Love as holding in his left hand a violin which without doubt served to sing his pleasures and pains.
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