---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Alder, Lydia D.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 6
published: 1909-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Alder, Lydia D., "The Wagner Monument," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 6 (April 1909): 481–482.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1206unse
start_page: 481
end_page: 482
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse
  publication_year: 1909
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Wagner Monument

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THE WAGNER MONUMENT.
The chaste and magnificent statue of Wagner in its prominent place in the Thiergarten, Berlin, was unveiled in the spring of
1904. The white marble of the statue and wide base pavement,
are intensified by the dense background of trees and trailing vines.
Wagner sits as on a throne, with eyes raised heavenward, indicating whence came his inspiration of melody and song. Conspicu-

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482
IMPROVEMENT ERA.
ous among the corner figures (all from his operas) is that of
Tannhauser; his staff, old, travel-stained, wondrously bursting into
bloom as he sinks into the arms of death. The Utah people
from left to right are Miss May Alder, Ray Welker, president of the
Berlin branch, 1904, G. Herman Schettler, violin student, Mrs. Florence Alder Schettler and children, who were living in Berlin, where
the professor was studying music; Mrs. Lydia D. Alder and Mrs.
Alice Merrill Home, who had been invited as speaker to the Quinquennial Congress which convened in Berlin in June of that year J
Miss Loredine Christensen, who accompanied Mrs. Home, and was
going to Paris to study art; Elder John Levey, conference president; G. Howard Beard, missionary in Berlin; Miss Judith Anderson, contralto, then studying in Berlin, now Mrs. G. Howard
Beard, and her mother, Mrs. C. V. Anderson.
Statue of Richard Wagner, Berlin.
A group of Utah people in the foreground.