This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...individuals who listen to music with indifference, or even with dislike: those I can only call diseased. Would there were hospitals for treating and curing them! There will be some day, perhaps. Before that happy day dawns, humanity has anyhow a load of other fish to fry. I have not time in extenso to treat so ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...individuals who listen to music with indifference, or even with dislike: those I can only call diseased. Would there were hospitals for treating and curing them! There will be some day, perhaps. Before that happy day dawns, humanity has anyhow a load of other fish to fry. I have not time in extenso to treat so interesting a subject. So far as I am myself concerned, I can only congratulate myself when I see how England has received my works; and I know how English people stick to their friendship as well as to their hatred!' Why are the words ' to their hatred' underlined? Does he still grumble about his ' Faust'? He surely has no reason to speak of English hatred; and if you take this letter to pieces, you will see the beau parleur at once who simply parte pour rien dire. What does he mean? Did he answer the question: Are the English musical or not musical? I defy anybody to find an answer to the question in that letter. Is he not very kind to say that his time does not permit of his treating so interesting a subject in extenso, as if he had treated it at all? Evidently he does not wish to say yes or no, and he gets over the difficulty by simply getting out of it! I remember meeting him once in the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, arm in arm with Victor Masse--poor man! since dead, in comparative youth. It was just after Gounod's ' Faust' had been given at the Theatre Lyrique, and, to my amazement, had met with rather doubtful success. There was the Soldiers' Chorus, the waltz especially, very much applauded, praised, and bought, but what is really grand in the opera people seemed very slow to appreciate; and so I said to him: 'Is it not curious that people should take so to that Soldiers' Chorus, which, you must really agree with me, is not exactly...
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