Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . arize the modernworld with the musical expression of fiercer,tenderer, more palpitating emotions than hadever been expeiieuced in music before. Itwas his misfortune that partly from the dis-orderly violence of his epoch, partly from hisown peculiar deficiencies, the actual work hedid frequently failed to achieve complete,unquestionable beauty; and so it has cometo pass that on many lines his work has beensupplanted by the men who came after, who profited by the best of him and steered clearof his mistakes. But it is safe to say thathad he not lived
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . arize the modernworld with the musical expression of fiercer,tenderer, more palpitating emotions than hadever been expeiieuced in music before. Itwas his misfortune that partly from the dis-orderly violence of his epoch, partly from hisown peculiar deficiencies, the actual work hedid frequently failed to achieve complete,unquestionable beauty; and so it has cometo pass that on many lines his work has beensupplanted by the men who came after, who profited by the best of him and steered clearof his mistakes. But it is safe to say thathad he not lived, had he not done for musicwhat Delacroix did for painting, what Gan-tier and Hugo did for prose and poetry, ourmodern music would have found its develop-ment arrested along half a dozen paths. Itis no small merit for a man to have injectednew life into the veins of the opera, of thesymphony, of the mass, of the song, of theoratorio, even if his actual work has beensurpassed in each department by men whonevertheless took their lead from GRAVE OF BERLIOZAt Montmartre. Paris.
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