Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . 6Y PERMISSION OF A. F. CZIHAKS SUCCESSORS VIENNA. THE GRAVES OF BEETHOVEN, MOZART, GLUCK, AND SCHUBERT IN CARL MARIA VON WEBER BY ERNEST NEWMAN IT is a comparatively rare thing now, in the experience of any amateurof music, to find a work of Weber set down for performance in theconcert-room or the theater. His Freischutz still keeps the stage, hismasses are occasionally heard in the churches, and now and then onemay hear the Concertstiick or one of the overtures; but, on the whole,it may be said that Weber has practically disappeared from
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . 6Y PERMISSION OF A. F. CZIHAKS SUCCESSORS VIENNA. THE GRAVES OF BEETHOVEN, MOZART, GLUCK, AND SCHUBERT IN CARL MARIA VON WEBER BY ERNEST NEWMAN IT is a comparatively rare thing now, in the experience of any amateurof music, to find a work of Weber set down for performance in theconcert-room or the theater. His Freischutz still keeps the stage, hismasses are occasionally heard in the churches, and now and then onemay hear the Concertstiick or one of the overtures; but, on the whole,it may be said that Weber has practically disappeared from our would seem to indicate that his music is now obsolete. Such, how-ever, is by no means the case. The intelligent amateur can still find avery real pleasure and a quite modern interest in it; while the studentwho looks at Webers historical relations to the music that preceded andthe music that came after his, discovers him to be, in fact, one of the per-manent seminal forces of the art. Like Tschaikowsky, he worked in al-most every musical form it is possible to mention, and did enduring workin them all. The most interesting feature of th
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