| Show 3 5 THE TIlE LIFE Lift OF LISZT THE j 2 u u n hi JA nB lm who MU M Is writing ft a C life of ot Liszt which Is to appear In aboUt two years ealS In two volumes has hus recently gone over tho th principal works of oC that composer carefully and mill has hns como come to 10 tho the conclusion that he lie Is a n melodic genius of ot the tho first rank amid ami that ho has hns moro more natural melody than even oven In reviewing a recent performance of ot the tho Dante Danto th tIme London World remarked that Liszt the was Vas always more agreeable A to the tho ear eal than Liszt tho iconoclast This may maybo maybo maybe bo be true truc but Liszt seems much less of ot an all Iconoclast that ho used to 10 In inthe tho the days day when few tew understood him and he will with ere cro long lon bo be looked on ns as nn an or orthodox orthodox classic On this point makes some som Interesting re remarks remarks marks In the tho Holt elt Discussing 1 I n a recent performance in Vienna of or LUt s Pro choruses ho out ft a I most important distinction between thu works of ot Liszt of ot most moat of ot his bin hl contemporaries While their productions have havO suffered from tho tilt o ot or tune time amul have havo aged perceptibly Ills lIs on time the contrary have been benefited the tho public Imbue has grown up tip to them as ns a It Il gradually grew up to tho the works of ot and and Schubert lIen continues What hn I seemed at nt the tho first perform performance I alice ance of ot Prometheus 44 H years ago IIO Incomprehensible and cx Is no longer strange to time tho modern musical consciousness We Wo Weha have ha Ve long Ions since Inco accustomed our ears carH to the free freo entrance of ot stub stubborn stubborn born suspensions anti and delayed humus have hll 1 almost become a 1 necessity to us and we wo do not object In tho the least to the composers occasionally giving us UK it Il hard halll nut to crack Our Jur endur endurance alice ance also has Immis grown The public which in tho the days lIas of yore yoro oro was wall brought up on Oil tho tIme entertaining music of ot tho time Italian It II 11 opera had not tho time patience to 10 sympathize with the deep agony of ot Promo Prometheus theus thou s In till 1111 ni 1 Its i is musical iu phases and af after a f fter ter the had endured of ot feces lilt tho ho threefold exhortations of ot tIm tho mIll auhl Subterranean It lacked the tho buoyancy necessary for Cor forthe Corthe the time appreciation of their blessing All hUB hits changed Prometheus has become leAH ie wild willi In his hin lament wo we lint fInd tho time most soulful melodies his hI deliver unco appeals to 10 us un ns liS nn an bar many mony which resolves nil all dissonances of ot tho timo poem Into heavenly euphony |
