. Richard Wagner : his life and works . he conscien-tious hisses of the desperate opponents who considered it asacred duty to hiss everything connected with Wagner. One must know that the most furious of these writerswere those already committed by former articles apropos ofTannhauser, and who, being unable to pardon Wagner forhaving disproved their verdict, were quite upset at seeingtheir decision totally disregarded by the musical world, andwere beginning to despair of setting up their opinions, evenin France. In this juncture what was left them but to pro- RICHARD WAGNER 321 scribe the man
. Richard Wagner : his life and works . he conscien-tious hisses of the desperate opponents who considered it asacred duty to hiss everything connected with Wagner. One must know that the most furious of these writerswere those already committed by former articles apropos ofTannhauser, and who, being unable to pardon Wagner forhaving disproved their verdict, were quite upset at seeingtheir decision totally disregarded by the musical world, andwere beginning to despair of setting up their opinions, evenin France. In this juncture what was left them but to pro- RICHARD WAGNER 321 scribe the man in place of the musician, by reason not ofhis works, but of his nationality? The fact is patent; thedisturbance organized on Oct. 29 was not for the purposeof preventing Wagners reappearance on the programs ofthe popular concerts, since he had been generously repre-sented there for at least two years ; it was simply anotherattempt to crush the musician without hearing him, as hadformerly been done at the Tannhduser representations, and. *» fvO L THE BAYREUTH THEATRE WITH THE RECTANGULAR ADDITION BUILT IN THE SPRING OF 1882. because his ancient detractors were enraged at seeing himrecover lost ground so quickly in spite of their systematicattacks. He recovered it so well that this noisy fray did him no 11 may be permitted to quote here the letter which M. Pasdeloup addressed tome on this occasion : Thanks for assisting me in my work. Your vigorous articlein the Franqais (Nov. 6) gives me hope that we shall be able to surmount the ob-stacle. If we should remain strangers to the movement imparted to music byWagner, in thirty years our young composers might well be little old men. Oncemore I thank you. 322 RICHARD WAGNER harm, and, moreover, it was the last violent incident of thecampaign which for more than twenty years had been pur-sued in France against the author of Tannhduscr. Therehad been such senseless prejudice at the bottom of this out-burst, that all the auditors of cal
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