Richard Wagner, n.Definitions

Richard Wagner is the Puccini of music.

Richard Wagner is a composer with beautiful moments but awful half hours.

Richard Wagner is a man who, had he been a little more human, he would have been truly divine.

Richard Wagner is not a human being at all; he is a disease.

Richard Wagner is a composer whose music drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows.

Richard Wagner is hard to listen to without getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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

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