Träume for violin - Richard Wagner

Sophia Reuter playing Träume for violin and orchestra, composed by Richard Wagner

Taken from Hommage À Menuhin,
brought to you by Dinemec Classics

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Music

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• Träume
• Richard
• Wagner
• Menuhin
• violin

[MYTHIRDSHADOW]

its been reported that he intended to destroy classical music. He hated Bach and mozart. His intention was to make the listener go insane. What says you?

[genmaximus110]

@MYTHIRDSHADOW I would doubt he hated Bach. Bach was German. Wagner just thought he was the best composer of all time. He loved Beethoven, but I'm sure he thought himself better than him.

[89murph]

Wagner is my favourite composer. His opera works are the greatest.

[genmaximus110]

They are quite something, aren't they? Wagner is truly a composer of epic proportions.

[Danlovar]

@genmaximus110 I have just finished Gotterdämmerung (Karl Böhm), and I have to say that this is the most different thing I have heard in all my life, and I do not know people that really like Wagner the way I like this music... Anyway, I would like you to tell me what biography do you recommend?

Thank you.

[genmaximus110]

@Danlovar Truly, a great biography of Wagner's life would be the television miniseries called "Wagner" starring Richard Burton. It shows it all, the good and the bad, very truthful to his life.

[genmaximus110]

@Danlovar Truly, a great biography is the television miniseries called "Wagner" starring Richard Burton. It's very truthful to his life, the good, the bad, and the ugly.  I highly recommend it for Wagner fans to get a glimpse into his life.

[tannenbergbund]

Thank you for this.

[sas147741]

@MYTHIRDSHADOW Well Wagner said once that Don Giovanni was the most perfect thing ever created by the hand of man, and himself did a revision of the score (now lost) for a performance in 1850 so I doubt that he hated Wolfgang. He hated Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer.

[MYTHIRDSHADOW]

@raticida123456 Thank you, indeed I will.

[raticida123456]

@genmaximus110 wagner loves bach! he praises bach and beethoven!, actually he was modest, my god!, please READ the letters and his literature before ¬¬.. . richard spent hours copying the scores of Beethoven symphony with too much love, and occasionally get frustrated because their "melodies" were not as good as Beethoven.

[raticida123456]

@MYTHIRDSHADOW wagner loves bach! he praises bach, please READ the letters and his literature before ¬¬

[Danlovar]

@genmaximus110 And do not forget that he learned a lot from Liszt in the sense of the harmony. In that case, Liszt was better than him (it is reported that his last works have something of the dodecaphonic period), but Wagner took what he needed for himself.

[witness124]

@genmaximus110 Which he obviously was. I won;t knock the classical period, and some of Bach's cello suites are divine....but Wagner is infinitely better than him, both in talent and the sheer scale of his works.

[RHutton2710]

@pickednads6: it's not a beard; and it's not polite to stare.