Richard Wagner's letters to August Roeckel

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> IT is curious to observe how much > deeper the French go in their interest > for Richard Wagner than the English. > The English flock to Bayreuth, that is > true, and they flock to Richter's > concerts and to the wretched parodies > of Wagner's operas with which the > metropolis is occasionally gratified; > but even among enthusiasts, hardly one > in a thousand knows anything about > Wagner, the man, nor of the stubborn > battle waged by him during fifty years > against a demoralised and demoralising > stage, and against the perversion of > music — or of what he calls "the > Christian Art" — into a mere > accomplishment, a mere trade and > handicraft. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://www.hschamberlain.net/roeckel/wagner_roeckel.html

subjects: letters,  music,  roeckel,  wagner,  Correspondence,  Composers

People: August Roeckel (1814-1876),  Richard Wagner (1813-1883),  Siegfried

Places: Bath,  Bavaria,  Bordeaux,  Dresden,  Germany,  London,  Munich,  Paris,  Prussia,  Switzerland,  Vienna,  Weimar,  Zürich

Times: 1849,  1850,  1876