Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . and Wagner, was in the nature of the case, and thus scarcelyto be avoided. These masters stand in a peculiar relation of reciprocityto one another. Each has, as above shown, either sought to be influenced ROBERT SCHUMANN 217 by the other, or purposely sought to avoid being influenced. Like mightyplanets in the firmament, each either attracted or repelled the owes the other much, both positively and negatively. As regardsSchumann, he failed, perhaps, of the full achievement which his raregifts entitle us to expect, because his openness to
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . and Wagner, was in the nature of the case, and thus scarcelyto be avoided. These masters stand in a peculiar relation of reciprocityto one another. Each has, as above shown, either sought to be influenced ROBERT SCHUMANN 217 by the other, or purposely sought to avoid being influenced. Like mightyplanets in the firmament, each either attracted or repelled the owes the other much, both positively and negatively. As regardsSchumann, he failed, perhaps, of the full achievement which his raregifts entitle us to expect, because his openness to influences is inti-mately connected with that germ of early decay which prevented himfrom consistently pressing on to his goal. But whatever his imperfec-tions, he is yet one of the princes of art, a real German spirit to whomHeines profound words concerning Luther may well apply : In him all the virtues and all the faults of the Germans are in the grandestway united; so that one may say that he personally represents the wonderfulGerman BY PERMISSION OF STENGEL A CO., DRESDEN. THE SCHUMANN MONUMENT AT BONN.
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