Programme . les. Wagner, on theother hand, made up his mind at a very early age. Even The Art-work of the Future (1849) seems to be less the outcome of his strug-gles over Der Fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, and Lohengrinthan a series of ideas arrived at by an imaginative temperament aftera study of artistic history. Though the ideas had a very tangibleeffect upon his practical work as an artist, the result was somethingquite different from anything predicted in the prose works; he elicitedendless experiences from the standards set up in the prose works, butTristan and Die Meistersinger no mo
Programme . les. Wagner, on theother hand, made up his mind at a very early age. Even The Art-work of the Future (1849) seems to be less the outcome of his strug-gles over Der Fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, and Lohengrinthan a series of ideas arrived at by an imaginative temperament aftera study of artistic history. Though the ideas had a very tangibleeffect upon his practical work as an artist, the result was somethingquite different from anything predicted in the prose works; he elicitedendless experiences from the standards set up in the prose works, butTristan and Die Meistersinger no more conform to those stand-ards than Glucks early works do to the standards of the preface toAlceste. But once Gluck had arrived at that work and had provided himself JUST ACROSS THE STREET HUBBELL & McGGWANS Back Bays Busiest Drug Store Everything that is fore-most in drug store merchan-dise at prices that meetthe lowest competition. Copies of History of SymphonyOrchestra on sale at our newsstand, $ 480 Boyxston StreetBoston: Block of Brunswick Hotel MILLINERY SALE Many of her Models have been placed in her$ Department $ 1245 with a charter, he neither went back from it nor onwards beyondit. In spite of all the distractions of his famous competition with Pic-cinni, he devoted the years of his Paris campaign to illustrating in prac-tice the principles he had arrived at in the revised versions of Orfeoand Alceste and in the composition of Iphigenie en Aulide,Armide, and Iphigenie en Tauride. So he was able to givea logical conclusion to a career which had apparently begun illogically;because the principles upon which he had come to act, being the out-come of experience, were of an eminently sane and moderate kind. Thataccounts very largely for the position of his operas to-day. It is oneof esteem, rising at times to admiration, rather than the glowing affec-tion which both Wagner and Mozart engender. Glucks dramaticform in these works sometimes reminds one of the Ps
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