Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . is too apparent,and this extremely talented young man lacks much in originality andforce and misses his mark. The German music-theater is forever in a ferment; it lacks clearnessand well-understood aims. Wagner did not create real men. His figureswere all superhuman. The highest aim would be reached in the endeavorto place the truly human upon the musical stage. Beethoven felt thistruth deeply. He chose a creative scheme closely related to human life,and made music for it which penetrates all hearts. It is entirely practi-cable to return to Beethov
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . is too apparent,and this extremely talented young man lacks much in originality andforce and misses his mark. The German music-theater is forever in a ferment; it lacks clearnessand well-understood aims. Wagner did not create real men. His figureswere all superhuman. The highest aim would be reached in the endeavorto place the truly human upon the musical stage. Beethoven felt thistruth deeply. He chose a creative scheme closely related to human life,and made music for it which penetrates all hearts. It is entirely practi-cable to return to Beethovens conceptions of the music-drama, whileretaining both our enlarged modern means of expression and the dra-matic form which Wagner discovered with the authority of genius. Beethovens greatest concert works are to be found in the domain ofsymphony. What he accomplished here js so splendid, so sublime, thathe seems to have fully exhausted the vein; symphonies since his day aresuperfluous. There is nothing new to be created; not Schumann, not. BEETHOVEN IN HIS THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. Engraved by T. Johnson, after a copy of the portrait by W. F. Mahler in thepossession of Mrs. Jabez Fox, Cambridge. Massachusetts. even Brahms, has contributed anything new in this direction. The NinthSymphony called a halt to further development. Our North Germans feelthis instinctively, and endeavor to bring their labors to fruitage in theform of the symphonic poem created by Liszt. The most active andsuccessful in this genre is undoubtedly Richard Strauss, but this is notthe place to investigate his art and his achievements. It is concededthat the form of the symphonic poem authorizes and is highly favorableto the development of fancy. Its danger lies in the road, all too wide,which program music opens, and the consequent degradation of music toa role possibly hurtful to the art. 112 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 113 The Lorenzetti, especially Ambrogio, show to what unholy resultsleads the new effort to make p
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