At the same time, the influence of Richard Wagner was felt as a challenge to the French tradition.

" Though he liked the new French music, during his youth Ravel still felt fond of the older French styles of Franck and the Romanticism of Beethoven and Wagner.

Wagner was also emboldened by the death of Mendelssohn in 1847, the popularity of whose conservative style he felt was cramping the potential of German music.

In poetry, Isou felt that this point was reached with Victor Hugo ( and in painting with Eugène Delacroix, in music with Richard Wagner .).

Wagner felt that during the rest of human history up to the present day ( i. e. 1850 ) the arts had drifted further and further apart, resulting in such " monstrosities " as Grand Opera.

Wagner felt that such works celebrated bravura singing, sensational stage effects, and meaningless plots.

Newman and Wood soon felt able to devote every Monday night of the season principally to Wagner and every Friday night to Beethoven, a pattern that endured for decades.

Frank Rich wrote that the musketeers were " professionally played " by Taylor and his co-stars Brent Spiner and Chuck Wagner but felt the three had " little dialogue and often seem like interchangeable stand-ins for the Three Stooges.

However, he felt the story lacked in surprises and blamed " attention-deficit editing by Paul Rubell and Christian Wagner " for actions sequences that he felt lacked tension and were " joltingly repetitive ".

According to Hermann Wagner it was not felt wise to have any of these employees appointed as head of the establishment.

It got released by No Colours Records in 2007 in regular jewel case CD and a box-set limited to 99 hand numbered copies that included the CD, the double LP version of the album which included several bonus tracks, a DVD titled " Burning Leaf ", a T-shirt and other things and personal effect of Wagner himself of which he felt the urge of getting rid of ( e. g., this wedding ring of his first marriage ).

Wagner and Grant felt the film was a huge disappointment, partially due to Coltrane's performance, but also due to the makers not granting them more influence in how it was made.

Clearly sympathetic to the princess, Wagner once felt he was the only person who could save her.

" Ms. Wagner ’ s Nancy lasted precisely because she remained solid ; she wouldn ’ t join the country club because she considered it elitist, and insisted on cleaning her house because she felt uncomfortable being bossy.

The conscious act of artistically addressing all the senses with regard to a total experience made a resounding debut in 1849 when Richard Wagner conceived of a Gesamtkunstwerk, or an operatic work for the stage that drew inspiration from ancient Greek theater in its inclusion of all the major art forms: painting, writing, music, etc.

In " Art and Revolution " Wagner applies the term ' Gesamtkunstwerk ' in the context of Greek tragedy.

The Homunculus, an artificial human being created by Wagner, Faust's former famulus, by means of an alchemical process, leads Faust and Mephistopheles to the " Classical Walpurgisnacht ", where they encounter gods and monsters from Greek antiquity.

He wrote invective-laden articles under the pseudonym " Hoplit " ( from the Greek term hoplite, the foot-soldier of ancient Greece ) in support of Liszt and Wagner, and critical of music of the more conservative Romantic composers.

An admirer of Richard Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Kostis Palamas, and Nikos Kazantzakis, he set himself the life goal of establishing a Greek " national school " of music, based on the ideas of the Russian national composers, on western musical achievements and on modern Greek folk music, poetry and myth.

After recognising the fundamentally different snout shape, Wagner, after previous failed attempts by Leopold Fitzinger and Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel, who used preoccupied names, in 1861 named a distinct genus: Scaphognathus, derived from Greek skaphe, " boat " or " tub ", and gnathos, " jaw ", in reference to the blunt shape of the lower jaws.

Resentment welled up yesterday among Democratic district leaders and some county leaders at reports that Mayor Wagner had decided to seek a third term with Paul R. Screvane and Abraham D. Beame as running mates.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

In this, he had the support of Hitler, a passionate devotee of Richard Wagner.

In October 1940, Gauleiters Josef Bürckel and Robert Wagner oversaw the almost total expulsion of the Jews into unoccupied France not only from the parts of Alsace-Lorraine that had been annexed that summer to the Reich, but also from their Gaues as while.

By the 19th century, accompagnato had gained the upper hand, the orchestra played a much bigger role, and Richard Wagner revolutionised opera by abolishing almost all distinction between aria and recitative in his quest for what he termed " endless melody ".

The move away from traditional tonality in opera had begun with Richard Wagner, and in particular the Tristan chord.

With Wagner came an emphasis on vocal heft for his protagonist roles, with this vocal category described as Heldentenor ; this heroic voice had its more Italianate counterpart in such roles as Calaf in Puccini's Turandot.

Many of the total of 14 banquet and beer halls had a Wagnerian theme-indeed, the very name of the complex was taken from the Wagner opera Das Rheingold, the first of the four parts of the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, although this name did hark back to the building's planned former role as a concert venue.

In addition, the city ’ s colossal pace of change ( compared by some to that of Chicago ), had caused its chief planner, Martin Wagner ( 1885 – 1957 ), to foresee the entire centre being made over totally as often as every 25 years.

Mayor Robert Wagner, Jr. had to personally wire all National League owners and assure them that the city would build a park.

According to Benjamin, these drafts were astonishing for “ the precision of their materialist deciphering ,” as well as the way in which “ musical facts … had been made socially transparent in a way that was completely new to me .” In his Wagner study, the thesis later to characterize Dialectic of Enlightenment — man's domination of nature — first emerges.

In Germany, awareness of Viking history in the 19th century had been stimulated by the border dispute with Denmark over Schleswig-Holstein and the use of Scandinavian mythology by Richard Wagner.

It incorporates many of the operatic conventions that Wagner had railed against in his essays on the theory of opera: rhymed verse, arias, choruses, a quintet, and even a ballet.

Just as the Athenians had followed a tragedy with a comic satyr play, so Wagner would follow Tannhäuser with Meistersinger: the link being that both operas included song-contests.

In his earlier essay Opera and Drama ( 1850 – 1 ) Wagner had derided the staples of operatic construction: arias, choruses, duets, trios, recitatives, etc.

At the end of the first performance, the audience called for Wagner, who appeared at the front of the Royal box, which he had been sharing with King Ludwig.

Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography Mein Leben that he had been inspired to write The Flying Dutchman following a stormy sea crossing he made from Riga to London in July and August 1839.

In his 1843 Autobiographical Sketch Wagner acknowledged he had taken the story from Heinrich Heine's retelling of the legend in his 1833 satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski ( Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski ).

By the end of May 1841 Wagner had completed the libretto or poem as he preferred to call it.

Composition of the music had begun during May-July of the previous year, 1840, when Wagner wrote Senta's Ballad, the Norwegian Sailors ' song in Act 3 (" Steersman, leave the Watch!

However, as he later admitted to his second wife Cosima Wagner, this account had been coloured by a certain amount of poetic licence:

Only when this gargantuan task had been accomplished did Wagner find the time to concentrate on Parsifal.

By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto ( or “ poem ”, as Wagner liked to call his libretti ).

The Grail hall was based on the interior of Siena Cathedral which Wagner had visited in 1880, while Klingsor's magic garden was modelled on those at the Palazzo Rufolo in Ravello.