There are other names of real importance in absolute music; there are Pfitzner, Thuille, Schillings, Klose and Kaskel, there are Bungert, Weingartner, Goldmark and less significant names, but since these have exercised their talents chiefly in the dramatic field we shall defer our treatment of them to the following chapter. And, finally, there is a host of followers of these, too numerous to be treated as individuals and if individually distinguished too recent to have judgment pronounced upon them. The most recent currents, too, shall have attention in the next chapter.
E. N.
FOOTNOTES:
[31] New ed. of Naumann's Musikgeschichte, 1913.
[32] Reger is a native of Brand, in Bavaria, the son of a school teacher, from whom he received his earliest musical training. In addition to this he received instruction from the organist Lindner in Weiden (where his father settled during Reger's infancy). After his studies under Dr. Riemann (1890-95), he taught at the Wiesbaden conservatory, and (after some years' residence in his home town and in Munich) at the Royal Academy of Munich. In 1907 he became musical director at the Leipzig University and teacher of composition in the conservatory there, and in 1908 was made 'Royal Professor.' In 1908 he resigned his university post and in the same year was given the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy by the University of Jena. Later, until 1915, he conducted the Meiningen orchestra.
[33] Walter Niemann: Die Musik seit Richard Wagner, 1914.
[34] These include Der geigende Eremit; Spiel der Wellen; Die Toteninsel and Bacchanal.
CHAPTER VIII
GERMAN OPERA AFTER WAGNER AND MODERN GERMAN SONG
The Wagnerian after-current: Cyrill Kistler; August Bungert, Goldmark, etc.; Max Schillings, Eugen d'Albert—The successful post-Wagnerians in the lighter genre: Götz, Cornelius, and Wolf; Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy opera; Ludwig Thuille; Hans Pfitzner; the Volksoper—Richard Strauss as musical dramatist—Hugo Wolf and the modern song; other contemporary German lyricists—The younger men: Klose, Hausegger, Schönberg, Korngold.