Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.