. Richard Wagner : his life and works . of the Grail. He immediately baptizes the unfortu-nate Kundry, whose fountain of tears is opened at last;afterwards he heals the wound of Amfortas, and takes posses-sion of the kingdom of the Grail. Kundry dies, her eyesfixed upon the sacred relic, and the assembled knights, fol-lowing Amfortas, render homage to their redeemer and theirnew leader, Parsifal. In this work Wagner has uniformly followed the preceptsof his system; not a single aria or duet is to be found in it, noth-ing but recitatives and choruses and the orchestral has he so
. Richard Wagner : his life and works . of the Grail. He immediately baptizes the unfortu-nate Kundry, whose fountain of tears is opened at last;afterwards he heals the wound of Amfortas, and takes posses-sion of the kingdom of the Grail. Kundry dies, her eyesfixed upon the sacred relic, and the assembled knights, fol-lowing Amfortas, render homage to their redeemer and theirnew leader, Parsifal. In this work Wagner has uniformly followed the preceptsof his system; not a single aria or duet is to be found in it, noth-ing but recitatives and choruses and the orchestral has he so completely subordinated the music to thedrama, since the tenor is not given a note to sing during theentire last scene of the first act, and in the third, after two oror three words, the prima donna is required to dumbly act therest of her part, with all the pathetic power of which she iscapable, without uttering a sound. But on the other hand, never has he given so much im-portance to the mission of the Liet motif, and to the weaving. o 3 c >-C c«-2 oao £ <<! m H < wzc< o 05< u 05 a-s ■a .Si « • i: .Si o S !44 RICHARD WAGNER together of those motives which outline and characterize allthe evolutions of the drama, — the interior action which isunfolded in the hearts of the personages, as well as theexterior action which one follows with the eyes; for such isthe double aim of this genius, as mindful of incentives as ofactions, as attentive to causes, as to effects. Aside from thechoruses which give to some of the leading motives their full ^^r-^r^^.
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