Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15
Richard Wagner.

From the New York Tribune.l
 The death of Wagner removes the most rugged, uncompromising, original and power full art character born in this century. This great master was, perhaps, the most myriad minded whom music has ever produced. Not only was he musician, but he left his mark on the poetical political and philosoph- ical literature of Germany. He wes 8 most deep thinking philosopher of the modern school represented by Schoppenhauer. AS a politician he was revolutionary in his theories and methods If he did not see the full fruition of his labors. Wagner at least did a great and lasting work. He lived to see his theories leaven the whole lump of European music The school which will follow him (of which he was the whole while he lived) will not be made up of imitators, but of original workers after his ideas The direct influence which he exerted has been wide- reaching enough to affect all the German writers of music, the best of modern French men, and some of the young Italians. It reached man so old as Verdi and enabled him to make his last opera the best Full of crotchets, always scathing, and frequently unfair in his criticism of the composers whose operas stood in the way of an appreci- ation of his creations, Wagner, nevertheless, had a high and unfeigned admiration for those elements in art which all admit to be admirable. His conceptions of the sanctity of the arts and the possibility of their har- monious union were rooted in 8 profound appreciation of the antique.
 IFrom the Worcester Spyl
 No writer of opera music could approach him as 8 master of orchestration and drama tic effect. He knew the capabilities of an orchestra, and had 8 marvellous skill in pre- senting theme from every possible point of view. and in kaleidoscopic variety of colors As boy he was very bright, and wrote plays when 12 years old. His first operas, sRienzi' and ''The Flying Dutchman," ]" were performed before he was 30 years old. but it was in later opera trTannhauser," that the prophet of the Emusic of the future'' marked out in- dependent and decidedly original lines. After this came his S Tristan and Isolde" In 1864 Wagner settled in Munich, where he found a mighty protector and admirer in the king of Bavaria. There he finished Die Meis- tersinger von Nurnburg" and his favorite work, the great trilogy of s:Der Ring des Nibelungen." This national drama'' re- ceived the most ardent and enthusiastic labor of the great composer. Later he wrote 8 tetralogy of the same. "Das Reingold" is the title of this fourth part, or ssVorspel,'' and 'sDie Walkure, D stSeigfried'' and Gotter- dammerung' are the three dramas that con- stitute the original trilogy. His latest opera, tsParsifal, i" Aas been so recently given at the theatre he constructed at Bayreuth that the accounts of the splendor of it's performance are still fresh in our memories as we think of the great master lying dead in his German home, designed by himself, and that the work of Richard Wagner has been written. Wag- ner took an enthusiastic interest in the Ger man revolution of 1849, and was conspicuous on the barricades. He married daughter of LisZt.