Wagner

1 The Ring also called for the invention of subsequently dubbed 'Wagner tubas, a hybrid that combined elements of the French horn, trombone and euphonium.

2 He plays the chief part in the Volsungasaga, the Norse version of the German tale which Wagner’s operas have made familiar.

3 But having destroyed the old gods in its finale, The Twilight of the Gods, Wagner’s next move was to found a new religion.

4 Wagner uses them prolifically throughout his ten most famous operas to evoke pain or anguish, or to tell you something grim might be about to happen.

5 Indeed, one of the reasons musicians from all over Europe flocked to hear Wagner’s music dramas at Bayreuth in the 1870s was because they were so radically out of step with the mainstream.

6 Above all, Faure had the confidence to turn his antipathy towards the many- layered complexity of Wagner’s music dramas into a much purer, emotionally restrained sound.

7 Ilse Wagner is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, but she’s extremely finicky and can spend hours moaning and groaning about something.

8 That is not to say that some classical musicians did not attain fame and success, but these were mostly singers, conductors and virtuoso players, making their names with Verdi, Mahler, Mozart or Wagner.

9 Wagner did not fit either of these moulds.

10 Listening to Faure after Brahms, Liszt, Wagner or Tchaikovsky is comparable to someone spring-cleaning and redecorating a teenage boy’s bedroom.

11 The reality was that Wagner could only have a theatre built for him and his own pieces put on there thanks to the generosity of the very people he had previously so detested.

12 What it is not, though, is the one thing that Wagner most wanted to bring to the world: musical drama.

13 That said, it is only fair to point out that Wagner's keenest interest was not the fate of the gods but rather what happened to humanity.

14 Above all, Wagner’s focus was on the psychology of his characters.

15 Francis Poulenc neatly summed up the prevailing French ambivalence towards Wagner by saying that, after listening to him, it was necessary to cleanse one’s spirit and ears by listening to Mozart.

16 Wagner gave a vocal character to some of his symphonies.

瓦格那在他的一些交响曲中注入了声乐特点.

17 Although Wagner regarded all foreign influences as potentially threatening to German purity, he singled out the Jews for particular venom.

18 It was understandable that Wagner might want to speculate about the art world of the future, one that would encompass within it all the arts, centred on human dramas of love, death and destiny.

19 As Helmuth dries the last dish, the Wagner opera is interrupted.

20 The other great composers of Western music lived during other periods: Bach and Handel were Baroque era composers, for example; Brahms and Wagner, Romantic53 ; and Ravel and Debussy, Impressionist.

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