Word: idyll
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Summer Idyl...
...with enthusiasm, calling Miss Beebe out four times - a thing which has never happened before in the history of these concerts. Schubert's symphony, written when the composer was nineteen years of age, displays all the freshness of youth, with none of the inexperience of the novice. The "Siegfried Idyl" is of a different style from any of the Wagner selections previously given in the course. Labyrinthian in its construction, and delightfully startling in its cadences, it is instinct with the spirit of the dead master. Still it is impossible to get an adequate conception of Wagner's genius...