German Thoroughness 1
Wieland Wagner had the blood of the line,
And therefore was treated as semi-divine.
He staged new productions so spare and alarming
That nobody ever considered them charming.
He replaced the old trappings of sagas and myths
With plinths and planks and monoliths.
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Friedrich Blume (5 January 1893 – 22 November 1975) was an influential German musicologist.
German Thoroughness 2
Friedrich Blume, the musical scholar
Who edited the MGG,
Could have worked on something smaller,
But such a dogged man as he
Would have rather died in squalor
Than stop before the letter Z.
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