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
One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.
After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?
Certainly this (study on addictive nature of tanning) could explain why educational interventions haven't been more successful.
Every year I get fantastic deals on restaurant gift certificates and art, while supporting an organization that does great work in our community,
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.
I wish I could score everything for horns.
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.