excerpt from 'Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, 1870-1900' pp. 407-8 (178 words)
excerpt from 'Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, 1870-1900' pp. 407-8 (178 words)
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Siegfried Wagner came twice to London. In the autumn of 1894 he challenged criticism as a conductor only, and was “let off” pretty lightly. He wielded the baton with his left hand, but his beat was firm and distinct, and his readings, if colorless, were intelligent and clear. In the summer of 1895 he appeared as a composer, and presented to the world, for the first time, a symphonic poem written after Schiller's “Sehnsucht. "This work revealed promise, but it was “the promise of the child who tries to run before he can walk, the prematurely exposed talent of the artist who represents on canvas some great problem of human life before he has mastered the art of mixing his colors." At the same concert he gave a practical demonstration of his father's ideas concerning the interpretation of Beethoven's “little” symphony in F. On the other hand, his reading of the “Der Freischutz” overture was “simply remarkable for wilful eccentricity and a flagrant disregard for the obvious intentions of the composer." |
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