THE argument of the late Herr Wagner was that grand opera-the music drama, as he called it-included, and therefore did away with the necessity for-all other arts. Music in all its branches, of course, it provides: so much I will concede to the late Herr Wagner. There are times, I confess, when my musical yearnings might shock the late Herr Wagner-times when I feel unequal to following three distinct themes at one and the same instant.
"Listen," whispers the Wagnerian enthusiast to me, "the cornet has now the Brunnhilda motive. " It seems to me, in my then state of depravity, as if the cornet had even more than this the matter with him.
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