. The life of Richard Wagner . Those last two and a half bars (repeated twice) proclaim thisdouble-facing theme a memory of ecstatic Yearning, and all wewant to know is whether they existed in the early version of thework. Until documentary comparison of the original and revisedFaust overtures shall have been instituted, it will be impossibleto speak with absolute certainty; but I think we need littlehesitation to answer that question in the affirmative, not onlyowing to the family likeness between these bars and motive i, butsince Wagner distinctly says he had been unable to introduce * A fat
. The life of Richard Wagner . Those last two and a half bars (repeated twice) proclaim thisdouble-facing theme a memory of ecstatic Yearning, and all wewant to know is whether they existed in the early version of thework. Until documentary comparison of the original and revisedFaust overtures shall have been instituted, it will be impossibleto speak with absolute certainty; but I think we need littlehesitation to answer that question in the affirmative, not onlyowing to the family likeness between these bars and motive i, butsince Wagner distinctly says he had been unable to introduce * A fathomless enraptured yearning Drove me to roam neath openskies—And midst a thousand tear-drops burning I felt a world for mearise, the quatrain continues. Wagner had quoted it in full for his 1846 pro-gramme of the Ninth Symphony, interpreting the yearning as that forlove. It is the adolescents vague expansion toward a bliss as yet unrealised,the besoin daimer. 32 LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER. any new motive. Moreover, not to drag i
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