Richard Wagner
Composer
1813-05-22
Books by Richard Wagner
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An English translation of Parsifal, the sacred festival drama by Richard Wagner
With representations of principal characters and motifs.
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Overture to Tannhauser
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Der Ritt der Walkuren
aus dem Musikdrama 'Die Walkure = The ride of the Valkyries from the musicdrama 'The Valkyries'.
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Quotes by Richard Wagner
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Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...
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Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...
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We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.
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How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
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The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.
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Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
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Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need.
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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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