The Overture to the Master Singers by Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner's overture to the Master Singers is a piece of magnificent, gorgeous, heavy art. It impresses us at one time as ancient, at another time as foreign, bitter and too modern. Not infrequently roguish, still often a rough and coarse. All in all, however, no beauty, no south; nothing of delicate southern clearness of sky,. Nothing of grace, no dance, hardly a will for logic: clumsiness even.