charfreitagszauber

Updated: May 17, 2025

So much other music seems indirect, hesitating, timorous, beside these little forms of granite. And then, Moussorgsky's operas, "Boris" in particular, are dramatically swifter than most of Wagner's. He never made the mistake the master of Bayreuth so frequently made, of subordinating the drama to the music, and arresting the action for the sake of a "Waldweben" or a "Charfreitagszauber."

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers