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Title: Musical Portraits
Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers

Author: Paul Rosenfeld

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MUSICAL PORTRAITS

INTERPRETATIONS OF TWENTY
MODERN COMPOSERS

BY
PAUL ROSENFELD

NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC.

THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N. J.

To
ARTHUR MOORE WILLIAMSON

_Some of the material of this book was originally printed in the
form of articles in "The Dial," "The New Republic," and "The Seven
Arts." Thanks are due the editors of these periodicals for
permission to recast and reprint it._

CONTENTS

WAGNER, 3
STRAUSS, 27
MOUSSORGSKY, 57
LISZT, 73
BERLIOZ, 87
FRANCK, 101
DEBUSSY, 119
RAVEL, 133
BORODIN, 149
RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF, 159
RACHMANINOFF, 169
SCRIABINE, 177
STRAWINSKY, 191
MAHLER, 205
REGER, 223
SCHOENBERG, 233
SIBELIUS, 245
LOEFFLER, 257
ORNSTEIN, 267
BLOCH, 281
APPENDIX, 299

MUSICAL PORTRAITS

Wagner

Wagner's music, more than any other, is the sign and symbol of the
nineteenth century. The men to whom it was disclosed, and who first
sought to refuse, and then accepted it, passionately, without
reservations, found in it their truth. It came to their ears as the
sound of their own voices. It was the common, the universal tongue. Not
alone on Germany, not alone on Europe, but on every quarter of the globe
that had developed coal-power civilization, the music of Wagner
descended with the formative might of the perfect image. Men of every
race and continent knew it to be of themselves as much as was their
hereditary and racial music, and