was a prominent German author, conductor, music philosopher and also author. He is mostly known for his operas, or music dramatization as he later on called them. His jobs, particularly from the later duration, characterized by contrapuntal appearance, chromatic musical language, abundant harmonic style as well as orchestration, and a strong use of leitmotifs: music themes connected with specific individuals, places or events in the opera. Wagner contributed to the development of songs with his concept of the total amount masterpiece or entity artwork (which we know as the German das Gesamtkunstwerk) that finished in the huge tetralogy of the Ring 1876. Wagner was and also continues to be a debatable individual, both for its musical as well as significant payments and for anti-Semitic and also political affiliations.
In European classical music background, Wagner's music was an essential step in the direction of additional use of the chromatic range, as in twelve-tone songs. Composers have actually additionally been motivated by Wagner's persisting musical motifs, senromantikerne, minimalist composers and also film authors.
Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by Richard.
"I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired"
"Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge"
"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds"
"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them"
"Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries"
"Joy is not in things; it is in us"
"I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal"
"I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products"
"Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted"
"Imagination creates reality"
"I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing"
