Excerpt from The Critical Composer: The Musical Writings of Berlioz, Wagner, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Others I can disclaim such an intention by remarking, merely, that a man who wrote as much music as Wagner did had an understanding of the procedures and the effort by which a score is created which is not accessible to one whose approach to the art was essentially external. I am not contending that it is therefore a better, or more valid attitude - merely that it is an individual one, and worthy of attention. Certainly such translation into verbal terms of a music's effect as one finds in Wagner's wisely-flavored comments on the C sharp minor quartet of Beethoven does nor need the addi tional force of being said by the composer of Die Meistersinger. His writing conveys, in excelsis, the sensitivity to an art and a capacity for conveying that sensitivity in words which should be the basis of all critical effort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.