Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagnerwas a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 May 1813
CityLeipzig, Germany
CountryGermany
Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.
A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...
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.
Quite a few said they would sit out in the back yard or go to a pool in order to maintain their tan,
Even people with severely damaged skin say they can't stop, ... The behavior observed was similar to that of smokers.
Little steps are being taken that may be in the right direction, ... It's the rate of progress I'm concerned about.
True Drama is only conceivable as proceeding from a common urgency of every art towards the most direct appeal to a common public. In this Drama, each separate art can only bare its utmost secret to their common public through a mutual parleying with the other arts; for the purpose of each separate branch of art can only be fully attained by the reciprocal agreement and co-operation of all the branches in their common message.
Freshly blows the wind homewards: my Irish child, where are you dwelling?
One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.