Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all.

• 外界人早将惠斯勒称颂为最伟大的艺术大师之后，艺术领域仍然流言纷纷，将他说成是江湖骗子；