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Page 562
... Wagner's stupidity . He takes the most pathetic pains to prove , by instance after instance , that Wagner saw and felt and interpreted the world quite differently from ordinary people , as if that were the most surprising and ...
... Wagner's stupidity . He takes the most pathetic pains to prove , by instance after instance , that Wagner saw and felt and interpreted the world quite differently from ordinary people , as if that were the most surprising and ...
Page 571
... Wagner . Now I declare without reserve that there is no evidence in any bar of Aïda or the two later operas that Verdi ever heard a note of Wagner's music . There is evidence that he had heard Boïto's music , Mendelssohn's music , and ...
... Wagner . Now I declare without reserve that there is no evidence in any bar of Aïda or the two later operas that Verdi ever heard a note of Wagner's music . There is evidence that he had heard Boïto's music , Mendelssohn's music , and ...
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... Wagner , Siegfried : II 557 , III 321 , 334–8 , 348 , 352 Wagner Festival : I 111-12 , 126–7 , 208 " Wagner on Orchestral Conducting " ( Shaw ) : I 496-9 Wagner Society : I 535 , 740 , 791 , 924–5 , 947 , II 115 , 272–3 , 279 , 361 , 832 ...
... Wagner , Siegfried : II 557 , III 321 , 334–8 , 348 , 352 Wagner Festival : I 111-12 , 126–7 , 208 " Wagner on Orchestral Conducting " ( Shaw ) : I 496-9 Wagner Society : I 535 , 740 , 791 , 924–5 , 947 , II 115 , 272–3 , 279 , 361 , 832 ...
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