Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . teenth Century - - - Fanny Morris Smith 279 Brahms, the Musicians Poet—Brahms and Browning—The Unique Position of Brahms AmongModern Composers—Classic or Romantic?—A Master of the Orchestra—A Philosophical Poetin Music. Richard Wagner Char Saerchinger 285 Richard Wagners Position in Musical History—Early Life—First Creative Period: Rienzi;The Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin—Second Creative Period: Tristan and Meistersinger—The Ring of the Nibelung; Parsifal—Later Life and Death. What Did Wagner Do? . Fanny Morrh Smlth 299 Political Wagnerism—Wagners Lit
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . teenth Century - - - Fanny Morris Smith 279 Brahms, the Musicians Poet—Brahms and Browning—The Unique Position of Brahms AmongModern Composers—Classic or Romantic?—A Master of the Orchestra—A Philosophical Poetin Music. Richard Wagner Char Saerchinger 285 Richard Wagners Position in Musical History—Early Life—First Creative Period: Rienzi;The Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin—Second Creative Period: Tristan and Meistersinger—The Ring of the Nibelung; Parsifal—Later Life and Death. What Did Wagner Do? . Fanny Morrh Smlth 299 Political Wagnerism—Wagners Literary Relationship—Wagner as a Reformer of Opera. After Wagner-What? . Arthur Friedheim 303 The Wagnerian Ascendency—Inadequate Performances of Wagner Operas—Wagner in the Con-cert Hall—Wagner as the Barrier between the Old and the New—Wagner and Brahms-Wagner and Liszt—Followers of Wagner; Richard Strauss; Max Schillings—Wagners Relationto Others—Attacks on Wagners Character—Liszts Noble CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OFTHE EPOCH-MAKERS OF MUSIC THE MUSIC OF THE PRE-CLASSICAL PERIOD A BOOK of monographs on the worldssignificant composers of music takesup Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina () to begin the series, because Pales-trina may be considered the first to attainrelative perfection in culmination of somecenturies of musical evolution. Since hisworks are among the oldest that still carrycharm to modern ears, and because theyrepresent the beauty, the polish and thespirit usually associated with classic art,Palestrina is seen to stand on a fine vantageground connecting the two or three cen-tmnes which preceded, and the nearly fourcenturies which have elapsed since his is not the rule in world history thatgreat events stand entirely isolated, eitheras to time or as to conditions prevailingabout the earth. The succession of musicalinfluences which could finally produce aPalestrina had been certainly at
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