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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BERLIOZ STATUE IN PARIS. THE POTENCY OF BERLIOZ IN MODERN MUSIC BY ERNEST NEWMAN WHEN Berlioz reflected, as he must oftenhave done in bitterness of spirit, thathe suffered contemporary neglect preciselybecause he was too great, too new, for hisown generation, he may have consoled him-self with the thought that posterity would dohim the justice denied him in his lifetime.There are few things in the history of artmore pathetic than the falsification of thesehopes of the weary and disappointed oldmusician. For if he had but a smart follow-ing among the men of his own day, it mustin truth be said that it stands but very little better with the bulk of his work now at theend of the century. To appreciate him properly, and at thesame time to understand the comparative dis-regard of his music by the present genera-tion, we have to consider both the peculiarbent of his mind and the historical positionwhich he occupies. In the battle that wasfought on behalf of Romanticism in the thirdand fourt

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