. Richard Wagner : his life and works . d guests, proud and happy to join himin celebrating his victory. On this occasion France wasrepresented by one lady, Mme. Judith Gautier, and severalgentlemen, the most distinguished of whom was CamilleSaint-Saens. Wagner was in great spirits, and danced aboutlike one possessed ; he sung the Walhalla song at the top ofhis voice ; he climbed on a chair in order to reach to theear of the six-foot Russian admirer who had so warmlytoasted him on the previous evening; he was even heardto extenuate the injurious effects produced by certain Frenchcriticisms, an
. Richard Wagner : his life and works . d guests, proud and happy to join himin celebrating his victory. On this occasion France wasrepresented by one lady, Mme. Judith Gautier, and severalgentlemen, the most distinguished of whom was CamilleSaint-Saens. Wagner was in great spirits, and danced aboutlike one possessed ; he sung the Walhalla song at the top ofhis voice ; he climbed on a chair in order to reach to theear of the six-foot Russian admirer who had so warmlytoasted him on the previous evening; he was even heardto extenuate the injurious effects produced by certain Frenchcriticisms, and to exclaim in an excess of open-heartedness :Ah! great Heavens, yes ! We Germans, we are dull! M. Saint-Saens, being entreated to make himself heard,responded by improvising for nearly quarter of an hour onsome fragments from the Trilogy, beginning with the Gotter-ddnimerung; and ending with the RJieijigold; then he playedhis Danse macabre. Up to this time people had circulatedabout the rooms, chatting with friends and acquaintances,. 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 For a whole hourhe held the people spell-bound, while he played several ofhis unpublished works, and some impromptu waltzes ; nomore music was possible after he had finished.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
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