Wagner

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Meaning

A surname from German. Widely known as the surname of the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883).

The Wagner Group, a private military group loyal to Russia.

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Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. Gioachino Rossini

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense. Georg Solti

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories. Hans Frank

The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once. Daniel Barenboim

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut. Charles Bukowski

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