Richard Wagner Documentary 1874 Part 5

Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( /ˈvɑːɡnər/; German pronunciation: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 -- 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. Unlike most other opera composers, Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his stage works.

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[KingamonmenVII]

@OldSchopenhauer Exactly.

[OldSchopenhauer]

Ah! the typical judeophilic defamation.

His legacy will outlive any of his petty politically correct detractors who are by all means much worse people.

[bordaz1]

@bordaz1 these ideas of leitmotif and harmonic adventure are present with the composer Liszt ten years before Wagner. the best way to understand wagner would be as the most forceful and daring personality of German Romanticism in music, not as its most original artist

[bordaz1]

'The Jew in Music' was written and published pseudonymously in 1850, not 1859, and should be contextualized as a product of his unwelcome financial debt to the composer Meyerbeer; admittedly there is little doubt of his supremacist views when viewed along with his 'Regeneration' writings of the late 1870s. The point this film makes of Wagner inaugurating modernity in music with the Ring is overstated;