Excerpt from Richard Wagner's Prose Works, Vol. 3 Of all the present contents, it was this Judaism that created the greatest stir, both its earlier and its later publication gaining Wagner more and bitterer foes than anything else that came from his pen. Of course it was attributed to personal envy, though in 1850 one of the two musicians discussed was dead, and in 1869 not only were they both dead, but even Meyerbeer's artistic reputation was decidedly on the wane in Germany. Further, if one looks at the matter calmly and ...
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Excerpt from Richard Wagner's Prose Works, Vol. 3 Of all the present contents, it was this Judaism that created the greatest stir, both its earlier and its later publication gaining Wagner more and bitterer foes than anything else that came from his pen. Of course it was attributed to personal envy, though in 1850 one of the two musicians discussed was dead, and in 1869 not only were they both dead, but even Meyerbeer's artistic reputation was decidedly on the wane in Germany. Further, if one looks at the matter calmly and dispassionately, there was nothing so way dreadful in Judaism in Music about Meyerbeer, whilst Mendelssohn is handled in almost an affectionate manner, so far as concerns his personality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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