Wagner Synonyms

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Austrian architect and pioneer of modern architecture (1841-1918)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. otto wagner
German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. richard wagner
  2. Wilhelm Richard Wagner

Wagner Sentence Examples

  • On the operatic scale established by Wagner such detail is simply lost.

  • With it is associated the legend of the "Knights of the Swan," immortalized in Wagner's Lohengrin.

  • The accuracy and the paraphernalia are equally exemplified in all Wagner's additions and alterations of the classical orchestral scheme, for these all consist in completing the families of instruments so that each timbre can be presented pure in complete harmony.

  • But the greatness of Wagner is shown in the fact that with all the effect his additions have in revolutionizing the resources of orchestration, he never regards his novelties as substitutes for the natural principles of instrumental effect.

  • Whether this justifies Wagner's successors and imitators in showing a constant preference for passages of which not even the general outline is practicable; whether it justifies a state of things in which the normal compass of every instrument in an advanced loth-century score would appear to be about a fifth higher than any player of that instrument will admit;, whether it proves that it is artistically desirable that when there.

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