| Description |
vii, 335 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 20 cm |
| Note |
"Several of the foregoing essays have appeared in Scribner's magazine, the Musical courier, Criterion, Harper's bazar, Metropolitan, New York Sun, and elsewhere. They have been greatly altered and amplified for republication." |
| Contents |
I. Richard Strauss -- II. Parsifal---A Mystic Melodrama -- The Book -- The Music -- III. Nietzche The Rhapsodist -- IV. Literary Men who Loved Music -- The Musical Taste of Turgenieff -- Balzac as Music Critic -- Alphonse Daudet -- George Moore -- Evelyn Innes -- Sister Teresa -- V. Anarchs of Art -- VI. The Beethoven of French Prose -- Flaubert and his Art -- The Two Salammbos -- VII. Verdi and Boito -- Boltos Mefistofele -- VIII. The Eternal Feminine -- IX. After Wagener---What? -- The Caprice of the Musical Cat -- Wagner and the French -- Isolde and Tristan |
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Music.
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Music.
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