. Tannhäuser : a dramatic poem by Richard Wagner. FOREWORD |ROFESSOR Albert Lavignac of theConservatoire at Paris asks the ques-tion, Which was greater in Wag-ner, — the poet or the musician, themusical composer or the dramatist? He an-swers it by saying that Wagner was a geniuswhose thought assumed with equal facility thepoetic or the musical form. He combined themin one art, and carried them to their utmostpower. There may be dissentients from this view. Ne-vertheless, with the growing appreciation ofWagners music, it must be acknowledged thatthere is also an increasing interest in his poeti
. Tannhäuser : a dramatic poem by Richard Wagner. FOREWORD |ROFESSOR Albert Lavignac of theConservatoire at Paris asks the ques-tion, Which was greater in Wag-ner, — the poet or the musician, themusical composer or the dramatist? He an-swers it by saying that Wagner was a geniuswhose thought assumed with equal facility thepoetic or the musical form. He combined themin one art, and carried them to their utmostpower. There may be dissentients from this view. Ne-vertheless, with the growing appreciation ofWagners music, it must be acknowledged thatthere is also an increasing interest in his poeticand dramatic work. He is unique among com-posers in writing both the words and the musicof his great works. He is a splendid poet-mu-sician, remarkable in both wrote his poems for music. They are notordinary librettos. They are dramatic poems ofnoble conception and composition. Perhapsthishas been sometimes forgotten under the spelland genius of the music. In this volume thepoem itself claims our first attention. Wagneroften felttannhuserdramati00wagn
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