Says Henry T. Finck, an able American music critic: "When I had revelled in the music of Chopin and Wagner, Liszt and Franz, to the point of intoxication, I fancied that the last word had been said in harmony and melody;

Finck is of the opinion that fewer fall below par than in the list of any other song writer.

They shrug their shoulders, remarks Finck, and exclaim: "Yes, that humming bird is very beautiful, but of course it can not be ranked as high as an ostrich.

"From every point of view that interests the music lover," says Mr. Finck, "Grieg is one of the most original geniuses in the musical world of the present or past.

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On this fact Mr. Finck comments as follows: "Five years,nay, six years, six of the best years of his life, immediately following the completion of 'Lohengrin,'the greatest dramatic composer the world has ever seen did not write a note!

When Minna, who was at least, says Mr. Finck, as well advanced as the eminent critics of the time, failed to understand the music of "The Walküre," when indeed she called it "immoral amorous asininity,"an opinion for which perhaps the duets with Frau Heim were partly responsible,Wagner used to slam on his hat and go for a walk, while Minna would seek Herr Riese.

As Mr. Finck comments: "The world is apt to side with the woman in a case like this, especially if her partner is of the irritabile genus, a man of genius.

Wagner's relations with Ludwig were of a sort which Mr. Finck euphemises as "Grecian."

The chief difficulty in the securing of the much desired divorce was that Cosima must change her religion, or her "religious profession," to use the more accurate phrase of Mr. Finck, who says that Wagner in his life with her, had "followed the example of Liszt and Goethe and other European men of genius, an example the ethics of which this is not the place to discuss.

The Idyll itself, as Mr. Finck says, "is not merely an orchestral cradle-song; it is the embodiment of love, paternal and conjugal.

"She feared it would rend her heart in twain," says Mr. Finck, "so the procession moved along the canal in solemn silence, broken only by the tolling of the distant bell.

"HENRY T. FINCK, "Romantic Love and Personal Beauty.

Henry T. Finck was, perhaps, right, when he called her "the most gifted woman that has ever chosen music as a profession.

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His predecessors, indeed, Finck, Peter the Black, Zughetto, and Seibert were long before renowned among those who square their conduct by the good old rule of clubs; they were brave men, and stout and pitiless robbers.

" "It was a misfortune when Mr. Finck ran afoul of this theory.

" "Mr. Finck will not need to live many years in order to be ashamed of it.

" "If in the light of these and a million other facts, we should undertake to explain why nobody had anticipated Mr. Finck's theory that love is a modern sentiment, we should say it might be because nobody who felt inspired to write about it was ever so extensively unacquainted with the literature of the human passions.

After referring to the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, Meleager and Atalanta, Alcyone and Ceyx, Cephalus and Procris, the writer adds, "It is no exaggeration to say that any school-girl could tell Mr. Finck a dozen others."

Finck, H.T.: Romantic Love and Personal Beauty.