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| Sep-12-06 | | guitar2001: McCool: <pawntificator: Max was a ballet dancer by profession!! > Really? I would have thought he was a harmonist.(someone who creates harmonies) You're a McLoser.
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| Feb-10-08 | | brankat: Mr.Harmonist had a talent for the game, but never saw it as a profession. He did beat Gunsberg, Blackburne, Tarrasch, Mieses, Paulsen, drew a game against A.Burn. No small feat for an amateur. |
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| Feb-10-09 | | whiteshark: Player of the Day
Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ha...
http://www.berlinerschachverband.de... ! The game:Gunsberg vs Harmonist, 1887 |
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| Feb-10-09 | | brankat: Thanks Sharky. A beautiful game indeed. |
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| Feb-10-09 | | ILikeFruits: players wanna play...
ballers wanna ball...
rollers wanna roll... |
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| Feb-10-09 | | brankat: Fruits are good for all of them! |
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| Feb-10-09 | | ILikeFruits: indeed...
brankat... |
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| Feb-10-09 | | whiteshark: I have been looking for a second picture from M. Harmonist but so far no success. The photograph above was published on page 356 of Kagans Neueste Schachnachrichten, 1926 --> CN 3885 |
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| Feb-10-09 | | WhiteRook48: let's have him play music |
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| Apr-13-09 | | Dredge Rivers: Ballet? Fooey! |
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Feb-10-12
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| Feb-10-12 | | Llawdogg: Cool name! |
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Feb-10-12
 | | Chessical: From the Berlinerschachverband item, it appears that although he was a professional ballet dancer at the Royal Opera, "he suffered from the lingering illness of Cerebal Palsy" |
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| Sep-16-12 | | Karpova: He won the Jubilee Tournament of the Berlin Chess Society which began on August 15, 1887. The other participants were Caro, Cordel, Kirdorf, Dr. Lasker (Berthold or Emanuel?), Rothländer, Schallopp and von Scheve. 2nd place went to von Scheve (200 Mark) and 3rd to Schallopp (150 Mark). Max received 300 Mark. From page 16 of the September 1887 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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Sep-16-12
 | | alexmagnus: <From the Berlinerschachverband item, it appears that although he was a professional ballet dancer at the Royal Opera, "he suffered from the lingering illness of Cerebal Palsy"> I wonder which symptoms of CP he showed if he could professionally dance. I know there are some "mild" forms of CP, but mild enough to dance?! |
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Jun-02-14
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Jun-02-14
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| Feb-10-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Max Harmonist. |
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| May-03-16 | | zanzibar: From the intro...
<...but he won the brilliancy prize at Frankfurt 1887 for his game with Isidor Gunsberg.> I think this statement is wrong.
Although his game with Gunsberg may have been brilliant, I don't think it won the Brilliancy Prize. Does anybody have a ref that it did? <whiteshark> posted a link to a German writeup on Harmonist, which does mention the game, but it only offers this: <One of his finest games was brought on the occasion of its centenary the chess friends in memory. It was played in 1887 in Frankfurt Master Tournament.> The original link is stale, here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/2007100... * * * * *
The game which did win the Brilliancy Prize did indeed involve Harmonist, but on the losing side of the board: <Schiffers--Harmonist (1887)> See Reinfeld's <Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters>, p17 Also, several mentions in BCM, e.g. v25 (1905) p57-8: https://books.google.com/books?id=V... where it says:
<The Deutsche Schachzeitung, from which the notes to this game are taken, remarks: "For this game, which the 'Chess Monthly' calls the pearl of the tourney, Herr Schiffers received the special brilliancy prize of 100 marks, given by Mr. Lewis, of London.> Batgirl mentions the Schiffers--Harmonist game as well, citing an earlier BCM ref which got the tournaments confused: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... |
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| Oct-31-16 | | Marcelo Bruno: <Karpova> I admit almost certain that the Dr. Lasker was Berthold, Emanuel's brother. |
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| Mar-07-18 | | zanzibar: Tarrasch talks extensively about Harmonist here: http://quienesjugaronajedrez.blogsp...
Yes, Tarrasch confirms he died from CP:
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After a prolonged illness, cerebral palsy, Max Harmonist died at the age of 42 years. Those of us who were his friends always remember his creative personality. > |
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| Feb-10-19 | | JimNorCal: He died relatively young |
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| May-01-21 | | login:
'Yes, Tarrasch confirms he died from CP'
Hell, no.
References to death notes (in German):
https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/...
https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/... There is an obvious translation error by lack of sufficient medical knowledge. Without further ado we rule out 'cerebral palsy' right off the bat, certainly this cannot be the condition (let alone the cause of death) as it would never have allowed Harmonist to develop the required skill for a profession so dependent on precise motor control and muscular strengh for many years straight (https://collegelearners.com/how-lon...). Let's refrain from going into details here, instead claim young joyful Max simply 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 around the Kaiserreich and further through bohemian Berlin while he catched at least one STD namely Syphilis somewhere along the way from one body cavity to the next. Synopsis, the cause of death (considering Tarrasch was quoted correctly) was known then as 'Neurosyphilis/Dementia paralytica' (Treponema pallidum pallidum infection, tertiary stage). Ever since the German vocabulary was enlarged by the pretty useful term 'Hirnerweichung'. Possible differential diagnose was severe poisoning/intoxination/substance abuse resulting in irreversible Polyneuropathy or something entirely different.
(Unrelated) records ordinary Berlin madhouse
http://www.content.landesarchiv-ber...
'Franzosenkrankheit'
https://online.medunigraz.at/mug_on...
https://www.zhb.uni-luebeck.de/epub... (further reading in German)
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| May-01-21 | | login:
Now the fun part:
Max Harmonist dancer at
'Königliche Oper Berlin'
'Königlichen Opernhauses unter den Linden'
'Hofoper in Berlin'
'Ballett der Berliner Staatsoper'
'Königliche Schauspiele in Berlin'
'Lindenoper in Berlin'
Different names for this fat beauty
https://artsandculture.google.com/e...
History of Ballett in Berlin
https://www.staatsballett-berlin.de...
There he is quoted reaching the ranks of
'königlicher Tänzer'
e.g. from 'Bayreuther Blätter', Allg. Richard Wagner Verein, 1891 respectively
'Figurant'
residing in 'Fischerbrücke 14',
from 'Neuer Theater-Almanach Theatergeschichtliches Jahr- und Adressen-Buch', Druck und Kommissionsverlag von F. A. Günther & Sohn, 1893
see 'Historical addresses of Mitte'
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste...
Symbolic picture
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...
Donate
https://www.staatsballett-berlin.de...
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| Oct-20-21 | | Marcelo Bruno: I thought the possibility that his family name can be someone that plays the harmonica or harmonium. |
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