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42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is perhaps the first Briton to write as a true man of the people on such a subject, that is to say, to take it quite seriously. His story is told with such passion that almost every particle of doctrinaire affectation or easy pattern work is consumed and refined away, and he ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose a missionary went among a savage tribe and tried to teach them what Justice is; told them he himself was a son of Justice, and that Justice was made manifest in him; lastly, that Justice is a spirit. Suppose he came back after an absence and found the people teaching tha...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "instead of" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the truth is Mr. Parson, a remnant of heathenism stirs in the blood of us all. It has persisted through all the centuries since ancient Germanic times, and, once a year, it blazes up with the fire of St. John's Eve. For that night the spooks of ancient heathenism are unchain...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The great scene of the play, in which Heimchen and George are left alone together, is managed with wonderful stagecraft. Till the last moment they seem to be adhering to 'good resolutions,' but a series of incidents, all absolutely natural, occur to distract attention and cause ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is now no one in this neighbourhood with whom I can _converse_. I find myself permanently in the journalistic attitude, regarding it as luck if I can say two per cent. of what I think about anything; so the meeting with Powell was an oasis at the end of some very sandy mon...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He disliked dons as a class; at Oxford and elsewhere they made him, of course wrongly, restive. He had not been through their mill, and they did not always care for or see his curious and original play of mind. Their committee-trained caution of phrase was alarmed by his emphasi...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "enabled him soon to get a working knowledge of modern Greek; he was fortunate too in finding a Greek gentleman, who, grateful for the attitude of the _Manchester Guardian_, acted as his interpreter and showed him about the city. The same friend was on intimate terms with the Roy...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our festival was born in 1891. From the first it was organised entirely apart from any pecuniary object; it brought us some delightful music, as we set our own test pieces, and its aim was essentially educational. Our special correspondent from the _Manchester Guardian_ did not ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "might have been used with a real meaning. The honeymoon was spent on the Riffel Alp: afterwards the travellers attended the Bayreuth festival, returning to Manchester at the end of August, where they went to live at Tarnhelm (named after the magic helmet of the" }, { "fr...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "has no application to the musical energies of Manchester. It is like one of the great German towns, Munich or Frankfurt, being wholly independent of the capital, of which it is not a colony. The mark made by Johnstone in this region was attested in a measure that he would never ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Adolph Brodsky, after praising in especial Johnstone's accounts of pianoforte performances, singled out his services in breaking down the popular prejudice in England against Bach. Others wrote of his musical erudition and his" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "He held a high view of his office, and would make a sacrifice of self rather than a sacrifice of truth. It is difficult to calculate the extent of your loss. Musicians succeed musicians; they being dead may yet speak. But the critic's words are ephemeral; they remain in the file...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Technique is three-fourths of musical performance." } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "); to show, if a classic, why it had attained its position, if modern, why it should command serious attention. He never assumed too much musical knowledge on the part of his readers, avoiding the use of technical expressions, still more of stereotyped phrases. Bad work and slov...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Passion according to St. Matthew stands to Handel's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Messiah in something like the same kind of contrast that Strasburg Cathedral presents to St. Peter's in Rome. On the other hand, in its course of development music has been quite diffe...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold thou my _fermate_ [pauses] long and terribly. Wagner was a most exacting critic, but we venture to think that he would have been fairly satisfied with last night's rendering of the first movement. The contrast of the masculine and feminine elements which are inherent in the...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faustus and Helena, where the sylphs, typifying simple, untroubled natural influences, are busied about the person of the sleeping" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faust, pitying the" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies ) when he calls it the most rhythmical of them all. Beyond question the rhythm is on the whole more strongly marked in the seventh than in any of the others. The slow movement is not called a march; yet it has a far more definite tramping rhythm...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eroica" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eroica Symphony is taken note for note from Mozart's youthful operetta," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bastien et Bastienne, is of no great importance. If an operetta contained something that could thus be caught up...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eroica --represents not merely a contribution of unparalleled brilliancy to the symphonic music of the period, but an immense enlargement of its previously known possibilities. Such a work naturally dwarfs all that has gone before in its own kind; but it is very desirable to avo...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dona nobis pacem section, where the composer seems to represent humanity as endeavouring to take the Kingdom of Heaven by violence, protesting against all the oppression that is done under the sun, and sending up to the throne of God so instant a clamour for the gift of peace as...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Symphonie Fantastique." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Symphonie Fantastique offers a more complete picture of the composer's musical personality than any other single work. As a specimen of youthful precocity it also stands alone. It was written at the age of twenty-...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faust." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faust, which was first performed at the Opéra Comique in Paris in 1846, the opinion was expressed that he ought to have been a chemist, not a musician--a remark that gives extraordinary point to a piece of advice that Berlioz onc...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Like Wagner, he perceived that after Beethoven symphonic music could do no more on the old lines, but that music might learn to characterise much more sharply than it had ever done before. His prodigious reform, enlargement, and enrichment of orchestration was entirely carried o...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faust" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faust Symphony fell flat on its first performance in Manchester. There seems to be something in our national temperament which makes it peculiarly difficult for us to penetrate the secret of Liszt and learn to understand his tone-...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faust in Solitude." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "must, in the course of three fruitless years, have felt something worse than misgiving. That Wagner did so feel is a matter not of speculation but of history. He has described how, when meditating the subject of the" ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Die Walküre and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Siegfried were long ago taken up into the ordinary Covent Garden repertory. There can be little doubt that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rhinegold is in all important respects the most difficult part of th...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho-yo-to-ho, the doubt might be raised whether it is rugged enough. But on the whole this artist seems to present a case of almost providential adaptation to the task of impersonating Wagner's greatest heroine. From whatever point of view her impersonation be regarded, it seems ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Siegfried is a revelation of sensuous life in its natural and joyous fulness. No historical dress obscures his form, nor are his movements obstructed by any force external to himself. The error and confusion arising from the wild play of passion rage around him and involve him i...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Siegfried, the play of the sunlight through the moving branches that so terrifies the dwarf accustomed to a subterranean environment, the highly realistic smith's work--all these accessories in the picture of the godlike youth were well done, and the peculiar early morning exhil...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Residenzstadt, with an" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Castle of the fifteenth century, a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "New Castle of the eighteenth, and other not very carefully preserved relics of the Court which Franconian Margraves long kept her...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Parsifal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Parsifal was given for the 122nd time in Bayreuth, where, since the original production in 1882, it has formed the principal feature of every festival except that of 1896. Any attempt to describe impressions of the performance...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Parsifal" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ring." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ring tetralogy, of which the first began on Monday. It seems to be generally admitted here that the performance of the Prologue (" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Rheingold ) given on that day was the best that has...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ring here in 1896 the impersonation of Loge by the late Vogel of Munich was a brilliant feature. Vogel was at the time recognised as the best Loge, and his mantle has now fallen on Dr. Otto Briesemeister, who, with a much less effective costume than his predecessor's, dances ver...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ring." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ring here, is enormous, and from the mighty trilogy as now presented that old sense of awkward, cumbrous, and unmanageable material has to a great extent disappeared--not, indeed, to the same extent in all the four parts (prol...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Walküre and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Siegfried, which have long been in the repertory of London, Paris, and other capitals, the superiority of Bayreuth is very much less certain--that is to say, of Bayreuth as represented by this year's performances. There was ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Götterdämmerung. The final drama of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ring series remains a terrible monster among the dramatic works of mankind, with a dreary first and second act, in which little seems to occur besides the heaping up of gloomy storm-clouds. The fi...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pathetic symphony has been carried over the country during the past two years should have had the result of bringing other works by the same composer to the fore. That result is in no way to be regretted. Tchaïkovsky is a thoroughly interesting composer. His power and originalit...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pathetic symphony. Composed some fifteen years earlier than the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pathetic, the fourth symphony represents the composer in a very different mood, though with nearly the same technical powers. It is perhaps natural that the earlier work sh...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Romeo and Juliet" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Romeo and Juliet overture, played yesterday, is probably Tchaïkovsky's best early composition, and it is certainly that which suggests the great last symphony in the most unmistakable manner. The poetic basis of the ton...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pathétique --appeals more strongly to the emotions, No. 5 is constructively the finer work. On the other hand, we have the opinion of the Russian critic Berezovsky--quoted together with the same writer's detailed account of the work in a recent English book on Tchaïkovsky--that ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "King Olaf." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Froissart was produced at the Worcester Festival. Three years later a choral work--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Black Knight --was brought to a hearing in the same city, apparently with advantageous resul...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Enigma Variations." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Variations is a striking example of a primitive form that has proved imperishable. Sir Hubert Parry has pointed out that the fundamental idea of variations in instrumental music is co-ordinate with the _canto fermo_ a...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cockaigne music had there been no programmes? The answer is, Probably not. But the beauty of an artistic design illustrating a certain subject may often be perceived when one cannot make out what the subject is. In such a case the subject is not" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cockaigne occurs in some form in old English, French, Italian, and Spanish literature, meaning" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fancied connection with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cockney is of much later date. Henry S. Leigh's" }, { "from"...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Praise to the Holiest in the Height, recurring before the departure to Purgatory. But the whole work sings" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Praise to the Holiest in the Height _and in the Depth_. A powerfully contrasting note is heard in the death-agony of Gerontius an...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gerontius yesterday evening had a good many features of special interest. Full justice was done to the instrumental part of the work by the magnificent Festival orchestra of a hundred and twenty-seven performers. Those peculiar qualities of the imagination which make of Dr. Wüll...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gerontius," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gerontius the originality is strong and unmistakeable, and the performers find their technical skill severely taxed. But fortunately the composer has a clear head; he knows the technique of each instrument and he never miscal...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "My work is done, is a most lovely song, to which the haunting" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alleluia phrase forms a kind of refrain. But even this--one of the very few detachable things in the oratorio--is not the best of the Angel's music. It is surpassed by the ot...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "has sometimes to be used in a sense different from" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thus the two great Passions by Bach--the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "St. Matthew and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "St. John --both have a dramatic elem...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Apostles," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Apostles was first publicly performed, was a sufficiently striking contrast with the corresponding day in the Festival of three years ago that witnessed the production of the same composer's" }, { "from": "huma...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Apostles Elgar adheres completely to those principles which were exemplified by" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gerontius first among works of British origin. That is to say, the music is continuous, as in Wagnerian musical drama. There is no such thing in the wor...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Apostles as a work of art. It will possibly be found to stand to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gerontius" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Apostles," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Apostles, which will be heard by the Manchester public for the first time this evening, stands in much the same relation to recent works in oratorio form by other composers as one of the later musical dramas by Wagner ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Apostles, which make up the oratorio in its present form. This deals with the calling of the Apostles and with some of the most important incidents in the life of the Redeemer during His ministry. Everyone intending to hear the work should read the short and clear account gi...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gerontius as the more perfect work of art, though the individual beauties of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Apostles are greater and more wonderful. Nearly everything in the later oratorio is stronger. The symbols of the Church show an advance upon the correspond...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Coronation Ode." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pomp and Circumstance. It is popular music of a kind that has not been made for a long time in this country--scarcely at all since Dibdin's time. At least one may say that of the best parts, such as the bass solo and...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don Quixote," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zarathustra, but in nearly all his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Symphonic Poems. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heldenleben might quite well be labelled with the Nietzschian expression" }, ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don Juan," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don Juan, though much less eccentric than most of the other" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Symphonic Poems by Richard Strauss, is a typical example of his overwhelmingly rich and effective orchestration. It also ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don Juan," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don Juan Fantasia was received yesterday with much applause. But there is room for doubt whether the excitement that thus found expression was not due rather to the bold and highly picturesque orchestration than to the essenti...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Till Eulenspiegel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Till Eulenspiegel was the great mediæval _farceur_. His name is well known to students of folk-lore. In Flemish books it figures as Thyl Uylenspiegel, in English as Till Owlglass. Like other heroes of popular story, T...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Till is its mediævalism. Listen to those triplets, in four-part chromatic harmony for five solo violins with _sordini_, expressing the agony of terror into which Till is thrown by his own wicked mockery of religion. By such devices the composer conjures up the atmosphere of the ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sehnsucht." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sehnsucht, raises a good many interesting questions, such as whether it is not, after all, on harmony rather than on tone-colouring that the essential quality of Strauss's music depends; whether the eminent South German compo...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faust Symphonie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faust Symphonie on Monday evening, and they are not likely to forget it. Strauss does not belong to the small group of international conductors who can travel from place to place, commanding success everywhere and in mu...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tod und Verklärung." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tod und Verklärung we find him in a mood of absolute seriousness. The theme is a death-bed scene, the phantasmagoria of a sick brain during the last moments of earthly consciousness, the final struggle with death, an...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ein Heldenleben," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Heldenleben we have to remember that Strauss is a reformer and the recognised leader of a party which, whether we like it or not, has played and is playing a great part in the world of music. The central principle of th...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zarathustra, --and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seelenmalerei in the love music and afterwards in the renunciation music is all very finely done. Even the drastic musical satire of the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Adversaries" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dumka, which, we believe, was first used as the name of a musical movement by Dvoràk, or at any rate first became familiar to the world in general through his works. It is derived from a Slavonic root meaning" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and may be taken as somethi...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "From the New World as the Symphony. Whether it was written during the composer's stay in America we do not know, but it is certainly an outcome of his American experiences no less than the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "New World" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Memoriam pieces as Tchaïkovsky's noble Trio, written in honour of Nicolas Rubinstein--brother of the more famous Anton and a pianist of nearly equal eminence. The psychological basis of this Trio is of exceptional clearness; it is probably clearer than in any other compositio...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Carnaval not a point was missed, and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Paganini intermezzo, occurring in the middle of the slow waltz, gave a foretaste of the quite extraordinary technical powers which were more fully displayed later on. The" }, { "from": "h...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "French Revolution, the first work showing the author to be a genuine and original man of genius. It shows him deliberately rejecting all that was traditionally connected with the idea of a work in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "affording to the soloist none of the co...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Henselt's Concerto, hackneyed in Germany but almost unknown in England, was his accompanied piece yesterday. It is the most considerable work of that curious composer, who made a great reputation as a pianist though he scarcely ever played in public, and some reputation as a com...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Legend for orchestra left an impression of sweetness and picturesque charm, but also of a talent scarcely equal to the conception and laying out of extended orchestral works. As painters sometimes say, the interest of the picture was literary rather than artistic. It was nice to...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don Juan fantasia, for pianoforte alone, gave Mr. Rosenthal an opportunity of exhibiting his technical powers in one of the most audacious _bravura_ compositions that exist. In many persons the fine frenzy that rages through the middle and latter parts of this piece awakens no s...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "in England and America is not a mere matter of fashion and folly, but is shared by experts and brethren of the craft, many of whom are irresistibly fascinated by Mr. Paderewski's playing, even while they disapprove of much that he does. Why will he insist on using a pianoforte w...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tannhäuser Overture was used for the display piece that audiences expect at the end of a recital. It is characteristic of Mr. Godowsky that his favourite amusement is making rearrangements of Chopin's Etudes--the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Godowsky Bedevilments,"...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is rather surprising that neither of his recent performances in Manchester should have included any example of Beethoven, of whose greater Sonatas Mr. Lamond is now probably the best living interpreter, with the possible exception of Mr. Busoni. He was of course quite right t...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ave Maria and in an unpublished Serenade by the performer's friend and compatriot Drdla--both played as extra pieces at the end of the recital. Virtuoso music, in the rendering of which Mr. Kubelik is well known to be a great expert, was represented in yesterday's recital by the...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It never rains but it pours. At one period we have a long string of pianistic infant prodigies. Hoffmann, Hegner, Hambourg--they come rapidly to the front, one after another, growing ever younger and younger, and nearly always beginning with" }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "has absolutely no aptness whatever. These worthy dons are creative artists of the highest possible order, to be classed with Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, and it thus appears that about the middle of the century British music arose like the lark, soaring at once to the topmost ai...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "King Saul, he appeals; at his best, _e.g._, in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Soldier's Tent (song with orchestral accompaniment), he almost persuades. But the horrors of the empty tone masses hurled at one's head in the" }, { "from": "human", "value"...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "than, for example, the modern Russians, and this brings us back to the point of the reproach conveyed in the epithet" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To musicians bent on the holding of official posts and on success in a worldly career it is of the first importance to"...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seems to me that his compositions on Irish subjects require to be considered quite apart from all the rest. However deplorable may be that Brahmsian vein running through a great mass of his non-Irish music, he really does in his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Phau...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "of Italy. He gives the young man to understand that it is unbecoming in a gentleman to take part in such things, though he may pay a fiddler to play to him. Elsewhere, too, Lord Chesterfield is even more crushing. He lays stress on the inevitable connection between music and low...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "A taste of sculpture and painting is in my mind as becoming, as a taste of fiddling and piping is unbecoming, a man of fashion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Death of Nelson" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fidelio, together with the third" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leonora overture, and many other works of towering genius. As yet, however, the real significance of Beethoven was undreamed-of in the philosophy of mankind in general, if dimly suspected by a few enligh...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oberon" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Antient Concerts, which had come to grief through depending too much on aristocratic patronage. The Sacred Harmonic Society did good work by performing Handel's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Israel in Egypt," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dettingen Te ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "The real champion of the Wagnerian art in this country was Dr. Richter, who, by the performance of extracts at his orchestral concerts, gradually opened the ears of the public and brought home the music to their hearts. In that task he was well supported by Mr. Manns at the Crys...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Golden Legend. Dr. Cowen's Scandinavian and Professor Stanford's Irish Symphonies have done something to win esteem for English music in other countries. But the great achievement of British music during the past fifty years has been the Gilbertian operas, in which Sir Arthur Su...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pig-tails" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pig-tails. In 1869 appeared Wagner's pamphlet" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On Conducting," } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meistersinger" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meistersinger score was carried out to the composer's complete satisfaction. Those who examined the fair copy of Richter's handwriting which was on view at the Musical and Theatrical Exhibition of 1892 in Vienna can testify to the marvellous neatness as well as to the technical ...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meistersinger" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Meistersinger" } ]
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nibelung trilogy performed was the cause of a premature attempt to present" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rheingold before the extraordinary _mise-en-scène_ required by that work was ready. Rather than take part in an unworthy rendering, Richter tendered his resignat...
42097	Unknown Title	Unknown Author	[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pig-tails" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Richter Concerts" } ]

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