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" He was the first to condense the vague feelings which were all that music had hitherto expressed into more distinctly intelligible ideas. He even brings the song of birds, the thunder, and the murmuring brook before the ear, not as a portrait of nature,... "
Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future: History and Æstetics - Page 45
by Francis Hueffer - 1874 - 333 pages
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The Academy, Volume 2

1871 - 590 pages
...originate " the poetry of music." He was the first who attempted to condense the vague feelings which were all that music had hitherto expressed into more...the song of birds, the thunder, and the murmuring of the brook before the ear, less as a portrait of the face of nature, than as at once a suggestion...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 17

1872 - 752 pages
...in the works of his last and grandest period. He was the first to condense the vague feelings which were all that music had hitherto expressed into more...birds, the thunder, and the murmuring brook before the oar, not as a portrait of nature, but as at once a suggestion and embodiment of the feelings which...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 143

1876 - 606 pages
...feelings which were all that music had hitherto expressed into more distinct!}' iirtelligible ideas. lIe even brings the song of birds, the thunder, and the...the feelings which would be called up by them; Mehr Ausdiuck der Empfindung als Malerei, as he wrote at the head of his Pastoral Symphony. . . . Indeed,...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 60

1880 - 974 pages
...listener's imagination-. Beethoven was the first, as Huelfer says, "to condense the vague feelings, which were all that music had hitherto expressed, into more distinctly intelligible ideas." The cheerful days of early art were passed ; it was no longer an Arcadian piping — not as when "Music,...
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Richard Wagner

Francis Hueffer - 1881 - 128 pages
...in the works of his last and grandest period. He was the first to condense the vague feelings which were all that music had hitherto expressed into more...feelings which would be called up by them : ' Mehr Ausdruck der Empfindung als Malerei,' as he wrote himself at the bead of his ' Pastoral Symphony.'...
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Richard Wagner

Francis Hueffer - 1881 - 130 pages
...in the works of his last and grandest period. He was the first to condense the vague feelings which were all that music had hitherto expressed into more...embodiment of the feelings which would be called up by them : ' Mvhr Aiisdnick dcr Empfimlung ah MakrcI,' as he wrote himself at the head of his 'Pastoral Symphony.'...
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Wagnerism: A Protest

Henry William Lovett Hime - 1882 - 144 pages
...as Beethoven's continuer. Beethoven, it appears, was ' the first to condense the vague feelings that were all that music had hitherto expressed into more distinctly intelligible ideas, and betrayed a longing for something of which he himself was scarcely aware.' We should have said '...
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Spiritual Consciousness

Frank Headley Sprague - 1898 - 248 pages
...subordinate to the creative. Francis Hueffer writes of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony: "He brings the songs of birds, the thunder, and the murmuring brook before...of the feelings which would be called up by them." One should not try, in that sense, to understand music. The profoundest harmonies cannot be translated...
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