Yet composers such as Gounod and Bizet had already begun to introduce Wagnerian harmonic innovations into their scores, and many forward-thinking artists such as the poet Baudelaire praised Wagner's "music of the future".
Men komponister som Gounod og Bizet var allerede begyndt at indføre Wagners harmoniske fornyelser i deres partiturer, og mange fremadtænkende kunstnere som digteren Charles Baudelaire roste Wagners "Musik der Zukunft".