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Musical instruments, 1925
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1up nights practising passages that seemed impossible and told Wagner that they could not be played. The composer replied "What I want is the general effect. The notes one player misses another will play." One of the places Wilhelmj referred to was in the Magic Fire Scene at the close of Die Walküre where the Violins are given unheard-of figures suggesting the flickering of the flames.
3ORCHESTRA AND ORGAN
5Many have been the efforts to combine the Organ with the Orchestra in oratorios, concertos, etc. with varied success. Berlioz in his work on Orchestration expresses his opinion that their natures are too conflicting like those of Emperor and Pope for them to coalesce. Possibly the proper means of blending them had not been sufficiently studied in that day. In recent years Pierné has achieved some charming results in his oratorio St. Francis by letting one voice-part in certain delicate registers of the Organ join the orchestral forces as an accessory instrument.
7Among modern compositions in which the Organ is employed as an instrument of the orchestra are: Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3, in C minor, Liszt's Dante, Tchaikovsky's Manfred, Widor's Sinfonia Sacra, and Loeffler's Villanelle du diable.
9A beautiful illustration of what may be accomplished by permitting the Organ to retain its eccle-
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