One Hundred Songs by Ten Masters, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from One Hundred Songs by Ten Masters, Vol. 2: Brahms (1833-1897), Tchaïkovsky (1840-1893), Grieg (1843-1907), Wolf (1860-1903), Strauss (1864-for High Voice At that time he had violent opponents, who, when that work was produced in Vienna, actually hissed it. These hisses were an echo of similar demonstrations made some years previously, in Leipzig, against the same master's first piano concerto, a demonstration which angered Brahms very much, and subsequently he signed a public protest against Wagnerian tendencies in music. Some have thought that it was a foolish thing to do, for vvagnerism was destined to prevail. Yet Brahms did not suffer from such partisanship, on the contrary, his being pitted at so early adate against Wagner as the champion of the conser vative party gave him a prominence which he would not otherwise have enjoyed at that time. It may be added that while Wagner never cared for Brahms's music, Brahms liked some of Wag ner's, echoes of which may be heard in several of his works. There was really no reason why the respective admirers of these composers should have come to hisses and blows, for there was no competition between their idols. Brahms wrote no operas, while Wagner wrote hardly anything but operas. 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.