Postcard depicting a creative likeness of Herr Wagner c. 1905 |
“As I create with ever heightened artistic consciousness I am more and more impelled to make a whole man. I want to create flesh and blood and limbs, a being who freely and truly lives and moves…”
It is hard to imagine, for any fellow ‘Wagnerian,’ a composer more adept at rushing the blood through the limbs, suffusing the flesh with goosebumps, or moving the very soul in such an exquisite and effortless fashion than Richard Wagner.
Herr Wagner remains to this day an Unraveling Musical Myths’ composer favorite – and, like fellow composer favorite Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is featured extensively on this blog.
Visit the Wagner Archives below to learn more about this fascinating – and often misunderstood – composer:
Enjoy an incomparable rendition of Wagner’s “Im Treibhaus” (In the Greenhouse) from the composers’ gorgeous Wesendonck Lieder (WWV 91). The sensational ‘Wagnerian Soprano’ Kirsten Flagstad performs:
-Rose.
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