9 Quotes & Sayings By Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner was an Austrian composer, who dominated the German music scene of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and whose work is central to the development of the Romantic era. Wagner was born in Leipzig, Saxony, on 21 December 1813 as the son of a clerk in the court orchestra in Dresden. His father died when he was two years old and he grew up in the poor household with his mother and sister. He showed an early interest in music and was given lessons by his father's friend, Carl Maria von Weber Read more

In 1836, aged fourteen, he enrolled at the Leipzig Conservatory and made such an impression on his tutors that they sent him to Prague to study under František Xaver Škroup. In Prague he wrote his first symphony and went on to create his first opera which he finished in September 1839. By this time Wagner had become acquainted with other young composers including Franz Liszt among them. These four short biographies are just a sample of our full collection of books by famous authors.

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Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he...
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Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know... Richard Wagner
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Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space Richard Wagner
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Joy is not in things it is in us. Richard Wagner
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I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them. Richard Wagner
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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. Richard Wagner
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What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.' Richard Wagner
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Imagination creates reality. Richard Wagner
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge. Richard Wagner