Category: Biographies
The old world is very remote from us now, but it is worth while making a small attempt to realize how it stood to Wagner. When he was born, in 1813, Bach had been dead only a little over sixty years; Mozart had been dead about twenty years, and Haydn about ten; Beethoven was i...
The old world is very remote from us now, but it is worth while making a small attempt to realize how it stood to Wagner. When he was born, in 1813, Bach had been dead only a li...
5. Chapter 5The establishment of a festival theatre where, humanly speaking, ideal performances of all the great operas could be given--this was long a dream of Wagner's. He knew what could...
3. Chapter 3After _Lohengrin_ the composer wrote nothing more for some years, though we may be sure he was eternally planning. He was intensely interested in politics. Revolution was in the...
2. Chapter 2The _Dutchman_ must stand amongst Wagner's great works. More beautiful music for the theatre had been written, but never had such energy been put into it as we find in the Dutch...
4. Chapter 4What we do know is that standing there on the deck of the ship are two very tragic figures. They have drunk poison; they are consumed with passion one for the other; death is cl...
6. Chapter 6When Liszt read the score of _The Valkyrie_, he wrote to Wagner that he wanted to cry, like the chorus on the miraculous arrival of Lohengrin, "Wunderschön! wunderschön!" No man...