Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)
Jean‑Yves Daniel‑Lesur (1908-2002)
Géza Anda (1921-1976)
Maralin Niska (1926-2010)
David Lloyd-Jones (1934)
Agnes Baltsa (1944)
Ross Bauer (1951)
and
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Sharon Olds (1942)
and from The Writer's Almanac:
On this date in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address
at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania. It was four and a half months after the devastating
battle, and it was a foggy, cold morning. Lincoln arrived about 10 a.m.
Around noon, the sun came out as the crowds gathered on a hill
overlooking the battlefield. A military band played, a local preacher
offered a long prayer, and the headlining orator, Edward Everett, spoke
for more than two hours. Everett described the Battle of Gettysburg in
great detail, and he brought the audience to tears more than once. When
Everett finished, Lincoln spoke.
Now considered one of the greatest speeches in American history, the
Gettysburg Address ran for just over two minutes, fewer than 300 words,
and only 10 sentences. It was so brief, in fact, that many of the 15,000
people that attended the ceremony didn't even realize that the
president had spoken, because a photographer setting up his camera had
momentarily distracted them. The next day, Everett told Lincoln, "I wish
that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea
of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes."
There are several versions of the speech, and five different manuscript
copies; they're all slightly different, so there's some argument about
which is the "authentic" version. Lincoln gave copies to both of his
private secretaries, and the other three versions were re-written by the
president some time after he made the speech. The Bliss Copy, named for
Colonel Alexander Bliss, is the only copy that was signed and dated by
Lincoln, and it's generally accepted as the official version for that
reason.
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