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“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.”

Quote by Richard Wagner

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Richard Wagner, a German composer, was born on May 22, 1813, in Leipzig and died on February 13, 1883, in Venice. He is one of the most important composers of the Romantic era, known for his grand opera works such as 'The Ring of the Nibelung' and 'Tristan and Isolde'. Wagner's musical theories have had a profound impact on subsequent composers. more

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“Wagner: Yet elocution makes the orator; I'm far behind, I feel it more and more. Faust: Seek thou an honest retribution! Be thou no motley, jingling fool! It needs but little elocution To speak good sense by reason's rule. It ye've a message to deliver, Need ye for words be hunting ever?”

Wagner Faust Goethe

Book:Faust

Source: Faust

“Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt - that would be fun!”

Music Wagner Odette Swann

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“Everybody feels oppressed during a Wagner performance. That is part of the appeal.”

Book:The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays

Source: The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays

“k Heb jarenlang achter mijn boeken zitten zweten; en ‘k weet wel veel maar ik wil alles weten.”

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Source: Faust

“Tú eres tu propia barrera… sáltala desde adentro.”

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“Dorothy's world had become very small-visits to the chapel downstairs, vespers, and Communion, and opera on the radio (including Wagner, whom she refused to let Hitler, or even Wagner himself, ruin for her).”

Wagner Dorothy Day

Book:Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day

Source: Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day

“Bare and glistening blooms do reach, longing to connect with my being. Setting my feminine spirit alight in a tightly wound body of darkness. The promise of fortuitous fruit, arouses my thirst to conquer a world of madness and dark rule, with womanhood as my stealth. [Spring’s Touch]”

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Book:Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall

Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall

“Wagner's gods and heroes are exactly like human beings, on a grand scale: every human virtue and every human temptation is there. Tolkien leaves a good half of them out. No one in Middle Earth has any sexual relations at all. I think their children must be delivered by post.”

Humanity Opinion Humour Reviews Wagner Lord Of The Rings Tolkien Characterisation Ring Cycle

Book:Dæmon Voices

Source: Dæmon Voices

“Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - "He has some beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour!”

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Source: Rossini

“Die Meinung des Künstlers über seine Bedürfnisse führt oft zu wirtschaftlichen Gegebenheiten. Wagner wünschte, herrlich zu leben. Seine Haut vertrug nur Seide,; er verwarf alle Angebote der Welt, sich mit einem Kleinbürgerdasein zu begnügen, und zog vor, ein Verbrecherdasein zu führen, so lange, bis er dann endlich sein königliches Wirtstier gefunden hatte.”

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Source: Die Maßgaben der Kunst