GEMS OF MUSICAL CRITICISM
Musicians who come under the lash of music critics sometimes reply by questioning the value of critics and criticism. But they would do well to remember that the critic of the present day is an ex- | trcmely mild-mannered man by comparison with his predecessors of sixty or seventy years ago. TTiis is what was written of some of the best-loved music of »vaguer in 1855 in the pages of London's leading music journal: "Look at I 'Lohengrin.' It is poison, rank poison. This man Wagner was born to feed spiders with flies, not to make hap- • py the heart of man with beautiful melody and harmony. What is music to him or he to music?" And again: "We regard Herr Wagner a.s the arch-enemy of music. lie is incapable of writing a tune."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 31 July 1929, Page 6
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