University Musical Encyclopedia: Great composersLouis Charles Elson University society, 1912 "These volumes form a complete encyclopedia and history of music and musicians. They comprise a library covering the whole field of musical literature. The material has been written by more than forty of the greatest musicians, critics, and experts on musical subjects in this country and Europe." copyright 1914. |
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Side 344 - I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
Side 504 - I did not intend to write philosophical music or portray Nietzsche's great work musically. I meant to convey musically an idea of the development of the human race from its origin, through the various phases of development, religious as well as scientific, up to Nietzsche's idea of the Superman.
Side 619 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Side 353 - ... exceptional physiognomy, which, if we may venture so to speak, belonged to neither age nor sex. ... It was more like the ideal creations with which the poetry of the Middle Ages adorned the Christian temples. The delicacy of his constitution rendered him interesting in the eyes of women. The full yet graceful cultivation of his mind, the sweet and captivating originality of his conversation, gained for him the attention of the most enlightened men, whilst those less highly cultivated liked him...
Side 506 - Life not a single poetical or historical figure, but rather a more general and free ideal of great and manly heroism — not the heroism to which one can apply an everyday standard of valor, with its material and exterior rewards, but that heroism which describes the inward battle of life, and which aspires through effort and renouncement towards the elevation of the soul.
Side 408 - Tannhauser," and was astonished at recognizing my second self in his achievement. What I had felt in inventing this music he felt in performing it ; what I wanted to express in writing it down he proclaimed in making it sound.
Side 530 - has been called a dramatized Volkslied. With regard to Bo'ieldieu's work, this remark indicates at the same time a strong development of what has been described as the ' amalgamating force of French art and culture ' ; for it must be borne in mind that the subject treated is Scotch. The plot is a compound of two of Scott's novels : the ' Monastery ' and
Side 321 - One thing, however, I must tell you, because I know it will give you pleasure, which is, that I never had such brilliant success, and can never have any more unequivocal than at this festival. The applause and shouts at the least glimpse of me were incessant, and sometimes really made me laugh...
Side 313 - Up he went briskly to the drawing-room, where, finding his mother, he exclaimed, ' Here is a pupil of Weber's, who knows a great deal of his music of the new opera. Pray, mamma, ask him to play it for us.' And so, with an irresistible impetuosity, he pushed me to the pianoforte, and made me remain there until I had exhausted all the store of my recollections. When I then begged of him to let me hear some of his own compositions, he refused, but played from MEMORY such of Bach's fugues or Cramer's...
Side 546 - Sonnambula,' says an English critic, ' so full of pure melody and of emotional music of the most simple and touching kind, can be appreciated by every one ; by the most learned musician and the most untutored amateur — or rather, let us say, by any play-goer who not having been born deaf to the voice of music hears an opera for the first time in his life.