Written by William American music critic and scholar James Henderson (1855 – 1937), this well-written work presents a critical analysis of the music of the 1800s and is considered a significant piece of literature on music. Henderson displays his rational views on the famous music personalities of that time, including Richard Wanger, Richard Strauss, and many more renowned music composers. Contents include: Parsifalia A Pure Fool In The New World Ethics And Æsthetics The National Religious Drama Der Ring Des Nibelungen A Futile God And A Potent Devil The Woman And The Serpent Back-worlds Gods And Over-woman Isolde's Serving-woman Richard Strauss The Historical Survey The Æsthetic View What Does It All Mean? Strauss And The Song Writers Aux Italiens Italian Opera Of To-day The Classic Of The Unprogressive The Oratorio Of To-day Note

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Excerpt from Modern Musical Drift The hero of the story, young Parsifal, comes before us looking like young Siegfried and wearing a musical tag of similar style. In the last act he is bearded and armored, again like Siegfried. And his theme is exfoliated in an umbrageous harmony of trumpets and trom bones. But what a tenuous echo he is, after all! Siegfried blazes with all the glory of manhood: he has hot blood in his veins; and he carves his way through fire and the wrath of a god to the mountain of his heart's desire. Parsifal loves no woman. He cannot, for he is the embodiment of ascetic, or at least monastic, denial. The one emotion which he submits for our hearts is pity, a most excellent emotion and admitted to be akin to love. A highly respected sister-in-law of love it may be; but love is love, and Spins the big round world down the grooves of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.