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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 230

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the world thatVerdis genius is inexhaustible. Xext to Verdi comes Wagner, theanarchist of music, who began in •■ Ri-en/.i and The Flying Dutchman byimitating the Italian forms of melody.In Tannhauser, portions are verybeautiful and melodious; in Lohen-grin. portions are fine; but Wagnersidea of… … EDWIN FORREST. 212 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY singers became secondary to the orchestra, which was persistently noisy.Wagners effort was to create a new school of opera, in which everythingshould be minutely descriptive. He went too far and opened the questionof failure. In opera the…

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