Music Of The Great Composers --

Hector Berlioz-Part 9 Mendelssohn was still more severe in his judgment of Berlioz. He is a perfect caricature, without one spark of talent, he wrote in one of his letters. Peculiarly enough, Berlioz himself felt very keenly extravagance and exaggeration in the music of other composers. Of Wagner's Tannhauser he wrote: Wagner is turning singers into goats . . . he is decidedly mad; he will die of apoplexy after all. Liszt, who was expected,..