Рихард Вагнер цитаты
Рихард Вагнер
Дата рождения: 22. Май 1813
Дата смерти: 13. Февраль 1883
Вильге́льм Ри́хард Ва́гнер — немецкий композитор, дирижёр и теоретик искусства. Крупнейший реформатор оперы, оказавший значительное влияние на европейскую музыкальную культуру, особенно немецкую, в особенности на развитие оперных и симфонических жанров.
Мистицизм и идеологически окрашенный антисемитизм Вагнера повлияли на немецкий национализм начала XX века, а в дальнейшем на национал-социализм, окруживший его творчество культом, что в некоторых странах вызвало «антивагнеровскую» реакцию после Второй мировой войны.
Цитаты Рихард Вагнер
„It's as if they avoid melodies, for fear of having perhaps stolen them from someone else.“
— Richard Wagner
Context: Music has taken a bad turn; these young people have no idea how to write a melody, they just give us shavings, which they dress up to look like a lion's mane and shake at us... It's as if they avoid melodies, for fear of having perhaps stolen them from someone else.
21 June 1880
„Music has taken a bad turn; these young people have no idea how to write a melody, they just give us shavings“
— Richard Wagner
Context: Music has taken a bad turn; these young people have no idea how to write a melody, they just give us shavings, which they dress up to look like a lion's mane and shake at us... It's as if they avoid melodies, for fear of having perhaps stolen them from someone else.
21 June 1880
„The July Revolution took place; with one bound I became a revolutionist, and acquired the conviction that every decently active being ought to occupy himself with politics exclusively.“
— Richard Wagner
Autobiographical Sketch (1843), Context: The July Revolution took place; with one bound I became a revolutionist, and acquired the conviction that every decently active being ought to occupy himself with politics exclusively. I was only happy in the company of political writers, and I commenced an Overture upon a political theme. Thus was I minded, when I left school and went to the university: not, indeed, to devote myself to studying for any profession — for my musical career was now resolved on — but to attend lectures on philosophy and aesthetics. By this opportunity of improving my mind I profited as good as nothing, but gave myself up to all the excesses of student life; and that with such reckless levity, that they very soon revolted me.
