Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- JOHANNES BRAHMS
- MAX BRUCH
- KARL GOLDMARK
- JOSEF RHEINBERGER
- THEODOR KIRCHNER—CARL REINECKE—WOLDEMAR BARGIEL
- JOSEPH JOACHIM—CLARA SCHUMANN
- HEINRICH VON HERZOGENBERG—HEINRICH HOFMANN—ANTON BRUCKNER—FELIX DRAESEKE
- JEAN LOUIS NICODÉ—RICHARD STRAUSS—HANS SOMMER—CYRILL KISTLER
- Plate section
KARL GOLDMARK
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- JOHANNES BRAHMS
- MAX BRUCH
- KARL GOLDMARK
- JOSEF RHEINBERGER
- THEODOR KIRCHNER—CARL REINECKE—WOLDEMAR BARGIEL
- JOSEPH JOACHIM—CLARA SCHUMANN
- HEINRICH VON HERZOGENBERG—HEINRICH HOFMANN—ANTON BRUCKNER—FELIX DRAESEKE
- JEAN LOUIS NICODÉ—RICHARD STRAUSS—HANS SOMMER—CYRILL KISTLER
- Plate section
Summary
It has happened over and over again in the history of art that one personality of strong and dominating nature has repressed, instead of stimulating, the productivity of its contemporaries in the same sphere of production, and, instead of founding a school, has to all intents and purposes exhausted the stream of invention which, diverted into other channels, might have fertilised the talents of many perhaps inferior artists. Such a personality was Wagner's, and a marked result of his career and of the change gradually worked by his innovations on all the most important German stages, was that German opera, apart from his works, has been represented, since his influence began to be felt, by strangely few works that can be called “epoch-making.” Another inevitable result of such a revolution as came about by Wagner's means is that for a time every contribution to dramatic music, unless it proceeded on purely conventional lines, was considered as a mere reflection of the great master's influence. For the time being, opera seems almost to have quitted Germany for its old home; the long series of German masterpieces in this kind seems to have come to an end, just at the point of time when the Italian schools started into fresh vigour. It is beyond question that among living operatic composers of Germany, none holds or deserves a higher place than the writer whose name stands at the head of this chapter.
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- Masters of German Music , pp. 137 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009