This music critic started with a review of a Covent Garden performance of The Ring of the Nibelung for La Revue hebdomadaire, years before publishing his Symphony in C dedicated to Paul Vidal. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this French music critic who, while writing for the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, composed a "Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe" (GEER-tuh) that would later appear in Fantasia.
ANSWER: Paul Dukas [Paul Abraham Dukas]
[10e] Dukas's music criticism maintained a rather impartial view toward this composer, whose French critics were often opposed to leitmotifs included in works such as Tristan und Isolde.
ANSWER: Richard Wagner [Wilhelm Richard Wagner]
[10h] Dukas's compositional output was limited by his criticism of the early 1900s for Minerva and Le Courrier Musical, though he abandoned criticism leading up to this 1912 ballet in which Iskender discovers the title Persian mythological creature.
ANSWER: La Péri
<Noah Sheidlower , Art - Music/Opera - Romantic/Impressionism>