Both Uses of
Richard Wagner
in
Anna Karenina
- In the entr'acte Levin and Pestsov fell into an argument upon the merits and defects of music of the Wagner school.†
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- Levin maintained that the mistake of Wagner and all his followers lay in their trying to take music into the sphere of another art, just as poetry goes wrong when it tries to paint a face as the art of painting ought to do, and as an instance of this mistake he cited the sculptor who carved in marble certain poetic phantasms flitting round the figure of the poet on the pedestal.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(Richard Wagner) German composer, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking symphonic-operas (1813-1883)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, Wagner can refer to anyone with that reasonably common name.