Nr. 95 | Anonym [John Sullivan Dwight], „Musical Party Warfare“, in: Dwight’s Journal of Music, Bd. 9 (1856), Nr. 18 (2. August), S. 142f.

Zusammenfassung

On another page we copy some curious articles about the recent performance of Robert Schumann’s Paradise and the Peri, in London. Those from the Musical World, like the articles in the same journal last year about Richard Wagner, manifest a disposition to find nothing good in any music emanating from certain recent German composers, whom it is pleased to sweep together into one category, called sarcastically the “Music of the Future.” Mr. Chorley, of the Athenæum, is equally bitter and systematically opposed to whatsoever hails from that quarter. So is the musical critic of the Times, and so are most of the musical oracles of England; while at the same time they claim Mendelssohn to themselves, set him up as the model and ne plus ultra of a musician, and abuse the Germans for not publishing every MS. work or sketch he left behind him, good, bad, or indifferent.