Word: eckermann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marvelous conversations with Eckermann, the elderly Goethe once remarked that the difference between Classicism and Romanticism was the difference between health and disease. He did not live to know the work of the arch Romantic Wagner, who could reflect both: if Tristan suggests illness, Die Meistersinger is a paragon of health. Last night, the latter's Prelude - which more successfully survives detachment from the whole than most of the other Wagner excerpts that turn up in the concert hall - came through with a good deal of its innate robustness and exuberance. In some places the strings were overpowered...
...eternal child in Goethe was an unfailing source of creativity. In the last half of his life Goethe completed five major dramas, four long novels, a 12,111-line narrative poem, a six-volume treatise on color, a ten-volume autobiography, a three-volume edition of his Conversations with Eckermann, and several thousand short er poems...