Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . re, at the very out-set, the flamboyant young revolutionist stoodat an immense disadvantage. And what wasthere, in himself or in his training, that wouldbe likely to smooth his path for him, to clarifyhis ideas, to make easier the thorny pathfrom conception to impression? Unfortu-nately, his musical education really began very late, and he was plunged into the atmos-phere of the biggest German music of thetime, his excitable brain seething with allkinds of half-inchoate emotions, before hehad the proper artistic grip of his ideas, be-fore he had le
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . re, at the very out-set, the flamboyant young revolutionist stoodat an immense disadvantage. And what wasthere, in himself or in his training, that wouldbe likely to smooth his path for him, to clarifyhis ideas, to make easier the thorny pathfrom conception to impression? Unfortu-nately, his musical education really began very late, and he was plunged into the atmos-phere of the biggest German music of thetime, his excitable brain seething with allkinds of half-inchoate emotions, before hehad the proper artistic grip of his ideas, be-fore he had learned to speak easily and flu-ently in the new language. With a passionfor color and movement equal to that ofDelacroix, he was dreaming of monstrousorchestral works at a time when he shouldhave been patiently and modestly cultivatingthe garden of his imagination, uprooting thetoo many vicious weeds that were growingthere. He knew very little of the piano, atthe very time when to have worked out histumultous ideas in terms of the piano would. A HEAD OF at the time of the unveiling of the statue in 1893. have been an invaluable education to him inmusical logic. He knew, indeed, practicallynothing of the piano works of Beethoven,although he knew the symphonies by heart;and Hiller tells us that his knowledge ofmusic, apart from that of his idols, Beethoven,Gluck, Weber, and one or two others, wasnever very extensive ; Bach was always anabomination to him. On the musical side, then, his imaginationwas from his youth up over-stimulated by thecolossal works he devoured so the intellectual side he received a full Qjusi tH^A^y
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