Musicians of to-day

by Romain Rolland

[38] Mémoires, II, 335. He shocked Mendelssohn, and even Wagner, by his irreligion. (See Berlioz's letter to Wagner, 10 September, 1855.)

[39] Les Grotesques de la Musique, pp. 295-6.

[40] Letter to the Abbé Girod. See Hippeau, Berlioz intime, p. 434.

[41] Letter to Bennet. He did not believe in patriotism. "Patriotism? Fetichism! Cretinism!" (Mémoires, II, 261).

[42] Letter to the Princess of Wittgenstein, 22 July, 1862.

[43] Mémoires, II, 391.

[44] Letters to the Princess of Wittgenstein, 22 January, 1859; 30 August, 1864; 13 July, 1866; and to A. Morel, 21 August, 1864.

[45] " ... Qui viderit illas
De lacrymis factas sentiet esse meis,"
wrote Berlioz, as an inscription for his Tristes in 1854.

[46] "One instantly recognises a companion in misfortune; and I found I was a happier man than Berlioz" (Wagner to Liszt, 5 July, 1855).

[47] Mémoires, II, 396.