Identifier: modernmusicmusic02elso (find matches)
Title: Modern music and musicians : (Encyclopedic)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920
Subjects: Piano Musicians Composers
Publisher: New York : The University Society Inc.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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A GOTHIC CATHEDRAL.THE VAULTED ROOF DIM AND HIGH. JOHANNES BRAHMS 275 piping shepherds are turning away from each other and at the same timeplaying their pipes as they go (Jean Ingelow has the same conceptionin Divided): nature and death—a landscape which makes a mostintense and poetic impression.
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A NIXIES LEGEND. Opus 119 is equally interesting from the point of view of what may becalled its literary contents. In the intermezzo in E minor, Brahmsoffers us reminiscences of his youth. He thinks once more upon themagnificent vista of his rich inner life and love. But it was long ago!Sad mists must vanish, many furrows of time must first smooth out; longmust he ponder the secret of his resigned heart before the picture of the 27G JOHANNES BRAHMS poet shows itself fully. Then it appears to him in all the vigor of hisfirst youth, Goethe has told the same story in another way: And grasps me now a long, unwonted yearningFor that serene and solemn spirit land ; My song, to faint seolian murmurs turning, Sways like a harp-string by the breezes fanned,And the stern heart is utterly unmanned. What I possess I see far distant lying, And what I lost grows real and undying.1 As the dreamer will wake from sadness into cheer, so the next inter-mezzo (in C major) shows itself absolutely psychol

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