. Richard Wagner : his life and works . REPRESENTATION OF THE NIBELUNGEN RING, AT BAYREUTH, IN 1876. Funeral procession of Siegfried; third act of the Gotterdammerung. After a drawing by M. Knut Ekwall. ;oS RICHARD WAGNER since there was no fixed programme for the evening ; butwhat silence and what attention fell upon the assembly asLiszt now took his turn at the piano ! For a whole hourhe held the people spell-bound, while he played several ofhis unpublished works, and some impromptu waltzes ; nomore music was possible after he had finished. He wasthe lion of the evening, and the French piani
. Richard Wagner : his life and works . REPRESENTATION OF THE NIBELUNGEN RING, AT BAYREUTH, IN 1876. Funeral procession of Siegfried; third act of the Gotterdammerung. After a drawing by M. Knut Ekwall. ;oS RICHARD WAGNER since there was no fixed programme for the evening ; butwhat silence and what attention fell upon the assembly asLiszt now took his turn at the piano ! For a whole hourhe held the people spell-bound, while he played several ofhis unpublished works, and some impromptu waltzes ; nomore music was possible after he had finished. He wasthe lion of the evening, and the French pianist, annoyed that. COMPOSITION OF THE PAINTER the facade of Wagners house at Bayreuth. he had seemed to wish to put himself on a line with theold master, was the first to render him homage. He dis-courages all pianists, said he to a Iriend who was present,and without false modesty, he took his place among thosewho knew not the art. The princely home which Wagner had built accordingto his own taste and fancy, was situated at the extremityof the town opposite the theatre, at the end of the Rennweg(Reindeer Road), which bears to-day the name of Richard RICHARD WAGNER 309 After passing the gate, a little avenue leads to araised circular bed of flowers, crowned by a large bronze bustof the king. Facing the avenue is the house, built of reddishgrey stone, nearly square, its only exterior ornament being asgraffito, a sort of fresco in black and white, which formerlyadorned the fronts of houses in Italy, and which may still befound in many cities of the peninsula. This allegorical com-posit
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