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Richard Wagner
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Anna Karenina
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- 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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(Richard Wagner) German composer known for monumental operas and revolutionary innovations in harmony and orchestration; also controversial for his anti-Semitic writings (1813-1883)Note that the "W" in "Wagner" is pronounced like a "V".
Wagner was a revolutionary composer who created massive "music dramas" blending music, theater, and mythology. His Ring Cycle comprises four operas totaling 15 hours. Wagner pioneered harmonic innovations that influenced generations of composers and modern film scoring. His legacy is controversial due to his anti-Semitic writings and later Nazi appropriation of his work. He is best known today for "Ride of the Valkyries" (from Die Walküre). -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) anyone with that reasonably common name