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It is one of the first works in English to explore the nature of Wagner’s genius, and builds on an essay published by the author in The Academy about Wagner’s own pamphlet on Beethoven. This 1874 book, much of it originally published in the Fortnightly Review, considers Wagner’s role in the musical developments of the nineteenth century that followed the watershed of Beethoven’s ninth symphony. Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future Francis Hueffer (1843-1889) was music critic for The Times from 1878 to 1889 and was also secretary of the Wagner Society founded in 1873.
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