Excerpt from Wagner's LohengrinFavour, at least into the appreciation of the thoughtful. Even longer ago still, it seems, when we recall the wonderful things in the way of criticism that came from those who sat in judgment on mat ters musical in the days, when Wagner's music was the apogee of hideousness, a distracting and altogether distressing noise, a mere blaring of brass, and a short method of utterly ruining the voice l But there has been much eating of words since then.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.