Revival Life Of Richard Wagner Vol V 1906 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... supplemental notes. "Famoses Blait" p. 373).--Ferdinand Praeger's Wagner-book p. 375).--Chorley on Lohengrin and Tannhduser 418).--Marschner and Wagner (p. 425).--Latter-day Impertinence (p. 429).--Davison's God-speed to Wagner (p. 437). Page 36. "famoses Blatt."--Both sides of this "curious sheet" are reproduced in that recent issue of the Musikalisches Wochenblatt mentioned in my text, and the two sides are indeed in curious contrast, as stated in vol. i; for the second presents the rough draft of a tripping vaudeville-chorus, to words such as "Allons, bons compagnons, danseurs et biberons, descendons gaiment la Courtille." Now if we turn to Wagner's Parisian Amusements (P. viii.)--a sprightly article contributed to the second quarterly number of Europa 1841, beginning "Since March the Paris winter is at end "--in its account of the Carnival of that February we find the following: "The weather was raw and forbidding, and everybody preferred to see the Descente de la Courtille at the Theatre des Varices, to joining in the actual fun outside." Gasperini, moreover, has told us Wagner did write music for a vaudeville of this name, and although the bulk of it was rejected after a rehearsal or two, the stage-company declaring it quite unsingable, yet one chorus "Allons a la Courtille" was positively performed. Here, then, we undoubtedly have the embryo of that unique humiliation, and together with it the date of one side at least of the Famoses Blatt, i.e. circa January 1841. What of the first page, the important side, which bears the pencilled superscription--naturally added a quarter of a century later--"Famoses Blatt"? This presents the whole sostenuto Introduction and the first fifteen bars of the Allegro, or "Molto agitato," of the...