He was an admirer of Richard Wagner, and like him chose to write his own libretto, something which was virtually unheard of in Italian opera up to that time.

Richard hoped to become a singer but failed to impress any of the teachers he auditioned for, probably because he chose to sing Wagner, for which his voice was not suited.

It also describes his tours of America, Russia and the Balkans and recalls his doomed audition for Frau Wagner at Bayreuth, when he foolishly chose to sing music from the verismo Italian opera Pagliacci.

It is the only " official " Bruckner symphony ( that is to say, excluding No. 0 ) without a dedication: Franz Liszt tacitly rejected the dedication, and Richard Wagner chose the Symphony No. 3 in D minor instead.

To Bruckner's delight, Wagner chose the Third, and Bruckner dedicated the symphony to the master he highly respected.

Wagner called Das Rheingold a Vorabend or " Preliminary Evening ", and Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung were subtitled First Day, Second Day and Third Day, respectively, of the trilogy proper.

One factor that helped Wagner choose which symphony to accept the dedication of was that the Third contains quotations from Wagner's music dramas, such as Die Walküre and Lohengrin.

It was under the Third Reich that the festival made its first break from tradition, abandoning the deteriorating 19th century sets created by Richard Wagner.

It is along these lines that Hanslick became one of Brahms ’ s champions ( although he did not rave about every piece, notably the Third Symphony ), and often pitted him against Wagner.

:* Third Norn, Götterdämmerung ( Wagner )

In 1982, with fellow Fuller missions professor Peter Wagner, Kraft became an early proponent of the teaching and ministry models of John Wimber, and helped popularize the " Third Wave of the Holy Spirit " which Wimber's Vineyard Movement represented.

This trend picked up steam in 1948 with the Latter Rain Movement giving renewed emphasis to fivefold ministry, and soon after with the Charismatic Movement and Third Wave movements, led by figures such as C. Peter Wagner, who is now the leading figure in what is known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which emphasizes the specific need for apostolic leadership in the Church, among the other fivefold anointings.

* Third Wave of the Holy Spirit, a 1980s expression coined by C. Peter Wagner for a Neocharismatic Christian movement

In the same year, C. Peter Wagner released The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit: Encountering the Power of Signs and Wonders Today.

* C. Peter Wagner, The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit: Encountering the Power of Signs and Wonders Today ( Ann Arbor: Servant Publications Vine Books, 1988 ).

In this sixty-two page book, Synan quotes David Barrett ’ s statistics to provide a historical sketch of the explosive growth of Pentecostal-Charismatic Renewal around the world employing the “ Third Wave ” analogy first expressed by Wagner in 1983.

In 2000, Cooling and Wagner signed with GRP / Verve Music Group and released their fourth CD, Third Wish on the fateful day of September 11, 2001.

In spite of the unfortunate timing of events, Third Wish produced two more top-ten singles: " Mm Mm Good ", featuring Joyce ’ s GRP labelmate, Al Jarreau, and " Daddy-O ", a tribute to Wagner ’ s father.

Bruckner showed both his Second and Third symphonies to Wagner, asking him to pick one he preferred.

In the 1980s, C. Peter Wagner coined the term Third Wave to distinguish the sort of charismatic spirituality he advocated from Pentecostalism.

Unlike other musical radicals, such as Richard Wagner or Hugo Wolf who fit the enfant terrible mould, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular.

In 1861, Bruckner studied further with Otto Kitzler, who introduced him to the music of Richard Wagner, which Bruckner studied extensively from 1863 onwards.

In 1861 he had already made the acquaintance of Franz Liszt who, like Bruckner, had a strong, Catholic religious faith and who first and foremost was a harmonic innovator, initiating the new German school together with Wagner.

At the time there was a feud between advocates of the music of Wagner and Brahms ; by aligning himself with Wagner, Bruckner made an unintentional enemy out of Hanslick.

Despite its general debt to Beethoven and Wagner, the " Bruckner Symphony " is a unique conception, not only because of the individuality of its spirit and its materials, but even more because of the absolute originality of its formal processes.

At first, these processes seemed so strange and unprecedented that they were taken as evidence of sheer incompetence .... Now it is recognized that Bruckner's unorthodox structural methods were inevitable .... Bruckner created a new and monumental type of symphonic organism, which abjured the tense, dynamic continuity of Beethoven, and the broad, fluid continuity of Wagner, in order to express something profoundly different from either composer, something elemental and metaphysical.

Bruckner presented his Symphony No. 3 in D minor, written in 1873, to Wagner along with the Second, asking which of them he might dedicate to him.

During the time that Bruckner began work on this symphony, he was aware that Wagner's death was imminent, and so the Adagio is slow mournful music for Wagner ( the climax of the movement comes at rehearsal letter W ), and for the first time in Bruckner's oeuvre, Wagner tubas are included in the orchestra.

Bruckner is greeted by ( from left to right ): Franz Liszt | Liszt, Richard Wagner | Wagner, Franz Schubert | Schubert, Robert Schumann | Schumann, Carl Maria von Weber | Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven | Beethoven, Christoph Willibald Gluck | Gluck, Joseph Haydn | Haydn, George Frideric Handel | Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach | Bach.

From left to right: Pernet, Weber, Frick, Kiebel, Ludendorff, Hitler, Bruckner, Röhm, and Wagner.

Walter made many highly acclaimed recordings of other great Germanic composers, such as Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss Jr., and Anton Bruckner, as well as of Bach, Wagner, Schumann, Dvorak, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, and others.

Brian's music owes a lot to Wagner, Bruckner, Elgar, Strauss, Mahler and Bach.

Furtwängler, whom many regard as the greatest interpreter of Wagner ( although Toscanini was also admired in this composer ) and Bruckner, conducted Beethoven and Brahms with a good deal of inflection of tempo – but generally in a manner that revealed the structure and direction of the music particularly clearly.

Since then, other composers have written for it, most notably Anton Bruckner, in whose Symphony No. 7 a quartet of them is first heard in the slow movement in memory of Wagner.

Present at this unique musical event were Kaiser Wilhelm, Dom Pedro II of Brazil, King Ludwig ( who attended in secret, probably to avoid the Kaiser ), and other members of the nobility, as well as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who committed much effort to helping his then good friend Wagner establish the festival, and such accomplished composers as Anton Bruckner, Edvard Grieg, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Franz Liszt.

* Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 ( Bruckner ), " Wagner Symphony "

Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Falla, Granados, Albéniz, Rodrigo, Schoenberg, Bartok, Nielsen, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Puccini, Debussy, Rossini, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Penderecki.

The symphony requires an instrumentation of one pair each flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, with four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and one tuba along with timpani and strings ( the " Wagner tuba ", an instrument Wagner used in his operas and which no longer exists in the form originally designed, was not requested by Bruckner until his last few symphonies ).

Pittsburgh sent eight men on an all-out blitz, but Staubach got the pass away just before he was hit by Steelers ' safety Mike Wagner.

From this point on, Wagner finished each act and sent it off for engraving before he started on the next-a remarkable feat given the unprecedented length and complexity of the score.

The success of Le prophète sent Wagner over the edge, and he was also deeply envious of Meyerbeer's wealth.

His friend and patron Robert de Montesquiou sent him to Bayreuth with a recommendation to Cosima Wagner, which led to a great enthusiasm for Parsifal.

New Jersey sent Alvin Ashley to the Orlando Predators for wide receiver / defensive back Barry Wagner, widely regarded as the greatest player in the league's history.

Troops under Terry's direct command were engaged at a skirmish at Grimball's Landing and later succeeded in capturing Fort Wagner in September 1863, but the following year the entire X Corps was sent north to Benjamin Butler's Army of the James in Virginia.

Wagner sent Schopenhauer a note expressing deep gratitude for Schopenhauer's discussion of music.

Wagner then sent him to Vienna to stage Siegfried and Götterdämmerung ( the last two Ring dramas ) there.

Big Bird is sent to the fictional town of Oceanview, Illinois, to live with a family of dodos by Miss Finch ( performed by Cheryl Wagner and voiced by Sally Kellerman ), a social worker who thinks he needs to be with his own kind upon being sent to him by the feathered friends.

The 1873 version was the version that Bruckner sent to Wagner for his approval.

Eventually, one of her enemies, the demon lord B ' Liale, sent a demon, Kyle Wagner, to seduce Avengelyne and father a powerful demon child.

On November 29, 2010, Wagner sent a video message to the committee members of the Republican National Committee announcing she was running for RNC Chair.