Overtones, a book of temperaments

by James Huneker

RICHARD STRAUSS, PARSIFAL, VERDI, BALZAC,
FLAUBERT, NIETZSCHE, AND TURGÉNIEFF
BY
JAMES HUNEKER
Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then, I contradict myself.
Walt Whitman
WITH PORTRAIT
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1904

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

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Published March, 1904.

TO
RICHARD STRAUSS
A MUSIC-MAKER OF INDIVIDUAL STYLE
A SUPREME MASTER OF THE ORCHESTRA
AN ANARCH OF ART
THIS SHEAF OF STUDIES
IS ADMIRINGLY INSCRIBED

CONTENTS

		PAGE
I.	Richard Strauss	[1]
II.	Parsifal—A Mystic Melodrama	[64]
	The Book	[73]
	The Music	[91]
III.	Nietzsche the Rhapsodist	[109]
IV.	Literary Men who loved Music	[142]
	The Musical Taste of Turgénieff	[142]
	Balzac as Music Critic	[161]
	Alphonse Daudet	[179]
	George Moore	[188]
	Evelyn Innes	[188]
	Sister Teresa	[199]
V.	Anarchs of Art	[214]
VI.	The Beethoven of French Prose	[228]
	Flaubert and his Art	[228]
	The Two Salammbôs	[244]
VII.	Verdi and Boïto	[256]
	Boïto’s Mefistofele	[272]
VIII.	The Eternal Feminine	[277]
IX.	After Wagner—What?	[307]
	The Caprice of the Musical Cat	[307]
	Wagner and the French	[321]
	Isolde and Tristan	[327]

I
RICHARD STRAUSS

We cannot understand what we do not love.

—Elisée Reclus.