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
...music is the living God in our bosoms.
The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
I know absolutely nothing about music.
Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.
The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
I write music with an exclamation point!
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
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.