A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
CHAPTER XXXIV--GERMAN OPERA--WEBER, MEYERBEER, WAGNER 404-427
Tendency of German opera--Weber--"Der Freischütz"--romanticism--innovations in piano playing--Meyerbeer--early life--master works--place in art; Wagner--early life--early operas--"Lohengrin"--Zurich--Schröder-Devrient, "Nibelung's Ring"--peculiarities.