Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . should be viewed his-torically. All acquisitions of our time,such as orchestration, harmony, etc.,have had their counterparts in Mozartstime. He, too, was once new—so newthat his boldness aroused a strong op-position among many contemporary mu-sicians ; and Wagner will some day beviewed at the same distance and judgedhistorically. Then it will be shown howmuch it means to stand firm like Mo-zart in spite of changing times. It isnot difficult to stand if one is surroundedby the complete sympathy, the full ap-preciation, of the whole young genera-tio
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . should be viewed his-torically. All acquisitions of our time,such as orchestration, harmony, etc.,have had their counterparts in Mozartstime. He, too, was once new—so newthat his boldness aroused a strong op-position among many contemporary mu-sicians ; and Wagner will some day beviewed at the same distance and judgedhistorically. Then it will be shown howmuch it means to stand firm like Mo-zart in spite of changing times. It isnot difficult to stand if one is surroundedby the complete sympathy, the full ap-preciation, of the whole young genera-tion — a generation, moreover, whichhas been educated to the task of mak-ing converts to the masters cause, andnot resting until his ideas have beenimpressed on all. Mozart had no pupils, and he had to leave his works to the accidentalcaprices of posterity. A new generation found new tasks in the sphere ofthe musical drama. Mozart was not merely neglected : we know, alas!how his operas were performed in the European opera-houses. The scan-. *T-~~~3-*- -. flAUOL* MASK ^f^^- SsT^-7-^- MOZARTS SPINET, 4,N THE MOZART MUSEUM. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 77 dalous production of The Magic Flute in Paris showed that Mozarthad no one to champion his cause and his ideals. Mozarts operas had a fatesimilar to that of the superb Catholic architectural works of the middleages, which after the Reformation were brutally plastered over by theProtestants. Posterity did all it could do to mar their beauty. But you may ask, whence comes this lack of reverence for Mozart inso many talented young musicians? Here is the heart of the matter.
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