Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . GRAVE OF BERLIOZAt Montmartre. PAGAXLNT, THE TORCH OF ROMANTICISM BY VICTOK HERBERT THE readers of the preceding articles in Modern Music & Musicianscannot have advanced thus far without becoming conscious that aseries of biographical sketches of the master spirits of the music of thenineteenth century, and of that part of the eighteenth most in sympathywith it, must be virtually a history of Romanticism. From Berlioz toPaderewski, the instincts of mystery and mysticism have been seen atwork on every page. Romanticism, however, is not an ep
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . GRAVE OF BERLIOZAt Montmartre. PAGAXLNT, THE TORCH OF ROMANTICISM BY VICTOK HERBERT THE readers of the preceding articles in Modern Music & Musicianscannot have advanced thus far without becoming conscious that aseries of biographical sketches of the master spirits of the music of thenineteenth century, and of that part of the eighteenth most in sympathywith it, must be virtually a history of Romanticism. From Berlioz toPaderewski, the instincts of mystery and mysticism have been seen atwork on every page. Romanticism, however, is not an epidemic which broke out early inthe centurv and ultimately infected the entire artistic world. It is theresult of a complete change in the dominant and ruling temper and moodof Christendom. A deeper religious conviction; a flood of new ideas ofliberty and of human rights poured out by the French Revolution; thesuccess and enlargement of human hope and comfort made by America asa republic — were undoubtedly the forces working beneath the became once more mys
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