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Article: Robert Schumann und Richard Wagner im geschichtsphilosophischen Urteil von Franz Brendel.
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- December 1, 1995
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Within the last decade, the writings of journal editor Franz Brendel (1811-1868) have become a focal point for scholars attempting to understand the aesthetic, cultural, and political world in which Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, and the New German School of the 1850s and 1860s established themselves. As Robert Schumann's successor at the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, Brendel occupied a position of considerable power for over two decades at the forefront of the progressive musical movement in Germany. Soon after his death, however, Brendel's name essentially was relegated to footnotes in biographies of Liszt and Wagner (Brendel himself left only a literary, and not a ...