Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . exquisite poetry of thissong. Of the intermezzi belong-ing to Opus 118, the firstsets forth the question and re-proach of fate, bitter but won-derfully appealing. The sec-ond is a Schubert-like lyricof Beethovens depth, Schu-manns romance, and Chopinsmelancholy—all are full torunning over. The ballad inthis opus is a Nixies stream rushes on, theNixies appear in the Rhine,they send me sweet glances,and yet I am without hopeand alone with my suffer-ing. In the fourth num-ber deep, gloomy, mourn-ful thoughts rush throughmy mind in the night
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . exquisite poetry of thissong. Of the intermezzi belong-ing to Opus 118, the firstsets forth the question and re-proach of fate, bitter but won-derfully appealing. The sec-ond is a Schubert-like lyricof Beethovens depth, Schu-manns romance, and Chopinsmelancholy—all are full torunning over. The ballad inthis opus is a Nixies stream rushes on, theNixies appear in the Rhine,they send me sweet glances,and yet I am without hopeand alone with my suffer-ing. In the fourth num-ber deep, gloomy, mourn-ful thoughts rush throughmy mind in the , love, and painrush by like shadows. I struggle with imaginings, but in vain. Pow-erless, I sleep again. In the romance the scene is laid at bells sound; it is a festival evening. Fays dance in the moon-light. All is at rest and dreaming in a wonderful peace. The last number,an intermezzo, is a painting by Boecklin—a scene at the entrance ofeternity. On one side the sea; on the other green meadows where two. A GOTHIC VAULTED ROOF DIM AND HIGH. JOHANNES BRAHMS 275 piping shepherds are turning away from each other and at the same timeplaying their pipes as they go (Jean Ingelow has the same conceptionin Divided): nature and death—a landscape which makes a mostintense and poetic impression.
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