. Richard Wagner : his life and works . and thought to discover in theingenuous Eva, immaculate Poesy; and in the shoemakerHans Sachs, who protects Walther, the King Ludwig others, without stepping out of the musical world, haverecognized in Hans Sachs, Franz Liszt, whom Wagner hasoften hailed as his good genius, and in Beckmesser, the mostpedantic of clerks and the least inspired of men, the learnedFerdinand Hiller, a composer without genius, and who wasalways most bitter against Richard Wagner. Such commentsas these, which amuse lookers-on for the time being, andexcite public curios
. Richard Wagner : his life and works . and thought to discover in theingenuous Eva, immaculate Poesy; and in the shoemakerHans Sachs, who protects Walther, the King Ludwig others, without stepping out of the musical world, haverecognized in Hans Sachs, Franz Liszt, whom Wagner hasoften hailed as his good genius, and in Beckmesser, the mostpedantic of clerks and the least inspired of men, the learnedFerdinand Hiller, a composer without genius, and who wasalways most bitter against Richard Wagner. Such commentsas these, which amuse lookers-on for the time being, andexcite public curiosity, do not long endure. But the workitself holds its own against exhausted criticism, — and that isthe principal 1 This opera of the Meistersinger is the fourth, and, up to the present time,the last of Richard Wagners works which has been represented entirely in theFrench language. Very cleverly translated by M. Victor Wilder, who has under-taken the same task for Tristan, for the Trilogy, and for Parsifal, the Meistersinger. RICHARD WAGNER, ABOUT a Photograph. 222 RICHARD WAGNER The Meistersinger and Tristan form a pair, in the sensethat they are the two short operas — the one historic andcomic, the other legendary and heroic — in which RichardWagner, impatient to produce a work of art according to hisideal, without waiting for the completion of the Trilogy, hasrealized results which in every point, dramatic and musical,conform to the most rigorous laws which proceed from histheoretic affirmations. Musical drama drawn from the legend,or musical comedy borrowed from everyday life, it is all one ;it is always the work of art, as it has been gradually formed inthis superior intellect, which cut loose from all previouslyadopted forms, in order to obtain these essential conditions;— a perfect fusion of song and sentiment, a rigorous con-sistency between word and note, equal and mutual penetra-tion of music and poetry. And what the author says of Tris-tan
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