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"AT THE HOUSE OF THE FEROCIOUS CRITIC OF THE CHIEF NEWSPAPER OF ENGLAND": (Mrs. Francis Hueffer (Catherine Madox Brown), from pastel by Madox Brown)

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Title: Ancient lights and certain new reflections, being the memories of a young man;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939
Subjects: Pre-Raphaelitism
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall, Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ousies amongstexecutants, amongst composers, have diminished;and along with them have diminished the enthusiasmand the partisanships of the public. In the fiftiesand sixties there was an extraordinary outcry againstthe Pre-Raphaelite movement, in the seventies andeighties there was an outcry almost more extra-ordinary against what was called the Music of theFuture. As I have said elsewhere, Charles Dickensattempted to get the authorities to imprison thePre-Raphaelite painters because he considered thattheir works were blasphemous. And he was backedby a whole, great body of public opinion. In theseventies and eighties there were cries for theimprisonment alike of the critics who upheld andthe artistes who performed the Music of the Future.The compositions of Wagner were denounced as beingatheistic, sexually immoral, and tending to furthersocialism and the throwing of bombs. Wagneriteswere threatened with assassination, and assaultsbetween critics of the rival schools were things not 82
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AT THK IIDUSE OK 1111: I-lCltoiH US curili i>K THE CHIEFNEWSlAlEll OF ENOLAXn (Mrs. Friiwis Hurfer, from pastel by M(i(h,v Jirown.Ill Mrs. JTiic.ffcr.ijHisscssiiiii) \ToJarr p. S3 Music and Masters unknown in the foyer of the opera. I really believethat my father, as the chief exponent of Wagnerin these islands, did go in some personal danger.Extraordinary pressures were brought to bear uponthe more prominent critics of the day, the pressurecoming, as a rule, from the exponents of the schoolof Italian opera. Thus, at the openings of the operaseasons packing-cases of large dimensions and con-siderable in number would arrive at the house of theferocious critic of the chief newspaper of England.They would contain singular assortments of comes-tibles and of objects of art. Thus I remember half-a-dozen hams, the special product of some north Italiantown, six cases of Rhine wine, which were no doubtintended to propitiate the malignant Teuton; a re-production of the Medici Venus in marble

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