Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagnerwas a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 May 1813
CityLeipzig, Germany
CountryGermany
Richard Wagner quotes about
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness
The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.
Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.
...you know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
I know nothing at all about music.
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.