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Romain Rolland. Musicians of To-Day
Musicians of To-Day
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
MUSICIANS OF TO-DAY
BERLIOZ
I
II
WAGNER
"SIEGFRIED"
"TRISTAN"
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
VINCENT D'INDY
RICHARD STRAUSS
HUGO WOLF
DON LORENZO PEROSI
FRENCH AND GERMAN MUSIC
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE
THE AWAKENING: A SKETCH OF THE MUSICAL MOVEMENT IN PARIS SINCE 1870
PARIS AND MUSIC
MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS BEFORE 1870
NEW MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS. 1. The Société Nationale
2. The Grand Symphony Concerts
3. The Schola Cantorum
4. The Chamber-Music Societies
5. Musical Learning and the University
6. Music and the People
THE PRESENT CONDITION OF FRENCH MUSIC
FOOTNOTES:
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Romain Rolland
Published by Good Press, 2019
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He presented himself three times at the Academy, and was beaten the first time by Onslow, the second time by Clapisson, and the third time he conquered by a majority of one vote against Panseron, Vogel, Leborne, and others, including, as always, Gounod. He died before the Damnation de Faust was appreciated in France, although it was the most remarkable musical composition France had produced. They hissed its performance? Not at all; "they were merely indifferent"—it is Berlioz who tells us this. It passed unnoticed. He died before he had seen Les Troyens played in its entirety, though it was one of the noblest works of the French lyric theatre that had been composed since the death of Gluck.[31] But there is no need to be astonished. To hear these works to-day one must go to Germany. And although the dramatic work of Berlioz has found its Bayreuth—thanks to Mottl, to Karlsruhe and Munich—and the marvellous Benvenuto Cellini has been played in twenty German towns,[32] and regarded as a masterpiece by Weingartner and Richard Strauss, what manager of a French theatre would think of producing such works?
But this is not all. What was the bitterness of failure compared with the great anguish of death? Berlioz saw all those he loved die one after the other: his father, his mother, Henrietta Smithson, Marie Recio. Then only his son Louis remained.
