As a result, he often used the most refined and learned means to achieve a very ordinary artistic result.

But there is no reason why he should be brought to task for results which they do not even remark in the works of so many others.
Meyerbeer was the undisputed leader in the operatic world when Robert Schumann struck the first blow at his supremacy.

Schumann was ignorant of the stage, although he had made one unfortunate venture there.

He did not appreciate that there is more than one way to practise the art of music.

But he attacked Meyerbeer, violently, for his bad taste and Italian tendencies, entirely forgetting that when Mozart, Beethoven, and Weber did work for the stage they were strongly drawn towards Italian art.