It is
Beethoven."
Chiefly, perhaps, of the philosopher and the poet must we needs
feel that if any genius reaches out into an interpenetrating
spiritual world, _theirs_ must do so.--F.W.H. MYERS,
Human Personality, Chapter on Genius.
In art the best of all is too spiritual to be given directly to the
senses; it must be born in the imagination of the beholder,
although begotten by the work of art.--SCHOPENHAUER.
Wagner's achievement can be attributed, in part, to a certain quality of
intellectual receptivity, by virtue of which he was enabled to
appropriate to himself the genius of two of his predecessors for whom he
had a special affinity. His epoch-making work was rendered possible
through Shakespeare and Beethoven, who served him as models all his
life.
Every great achievement is referable to some preceding one often quite
as great but more obscure. No man stands alone in his deed. The doer of
every great work has been helped thereto by his predecessors working the
same soil.
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