music

opera

Richard Wagner

occupation / innovator as

composer

musician

cause of death

natural causes

is a 'sublime' art in that it relates to reality not by imitating it,(which it can't) but by rising above earthly passions into an ideal realm in order to move them.

Music is a sublime art precisely because, unable to imitate reality, it rises above ordinary nature into an ideal world, and with celestial harmony moves the earthly passions.

 would be all the more wonderful if there were no singers.

Oh how wonderful, really wonderful. opera would be if there were no singers!

is a composer whose music has some wonderful moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

Wagner has some wonderful moments but awful quarter-hours.

is a composer whose operas cannot be judged after a first hearing, but hardly merit sitting through a second time.

One cannot judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing and I have no intention of sitting through it a second time.

is a composer with beautiful moments but awful half hours.

Gioacchino Rossini

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