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/ˈvɑɡnɝ, ˈwæɡnɝ/
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NOUN
- Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918)
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the music of Wagner
they say that Hitler listened only to Wagner - German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)
How To Use Wagner In A Sentence
- he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre
- There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera.
- In this respect he forms the link between Wagner and Schoenberg, who was soon to complete the destruction of classical tonal harmony.
- Everywhere in the 19th century students of folklore itself a newly invented word plumped up their local legends, sagas and fairy tales just as much as Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner did in Germany. Hitler's Golden Book
- Wagner's Arthurian librettos were translated into Catalonian by such writers as Ana D' Ax.
- Among the collection's highlights are the double slide contrabass trombone which inspired Wagner to write for the instrument in his Ring Cycle, a crystal glass flute and an early euphonium.
- He sang in choirs, played at balls and weddings and baptisms, made "arrangements" for anybody who would employ him, and in short drudged very much as Wagner did at the outset of his tempestuous career. Joseph Haydn
- To the untrained ear, the Wagnerian clarinet sounds almost identical to its more modern cousin.
- Annie Wagner in the Stranger: As a movie, Diggers is affable and lazy - its purpose obscured by a swarm of clichés. GreenCine Daily: Diggers.
- What the Wagnerite calls rhythmical is what I call, to use a Greek metaphor, The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
