Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 - The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by John Lord
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"Siegfried" and "Tristan and Isolde". Finds a patron in Ludwig II. of Bavaria. Nibelung Festival at Bayreuth. "Parsifal" appears; death of Wagner at Vienna (1882). Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin. Other eminent composers and pianists. Liszt as a contributor to current of modern music. Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Strauss, and Weber. "The Music of the Future" the music of the present. JOHN RUSKIN. MODERN ART. BY G. MERCER ADAM. Passionate and luminous exponent of Nature's beauties. His high if somewhat quixotic ideal of life. |
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