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“By the end of Wagner’s life all this had changed. He had lifted the status of the composer to that of a seer, raised the standard of musicianship, brought into being a whole new school of singing and conducting, built the revolutionary Bayreuth opera house, and created in Germany an operatic tradition that was the admiration of the world. Furthermore the mythology which he welded together and the ideology which he promulgated played a key role in the launching of a new German nationalism.” — Christopher McIntosh
By the end of Wagner’s life all this had changed. He had lifted the status of
the composer to that of a seer, raised the standard of musicianship, brought into
being a whole new school of singing and conducting, built the revolutionary
Bayreuth opera house, and created in Germany an operatic tradition that was the
admiration of the world. Furthermore the mythology which he welded together
and the ideology which he promulgated played a key role in the launching of a
new German nationalism.