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" my only purpose was to write an opera, and thinking only of this opera, I took my subject as I found it ready made in another man's finished production With the Flying Dutchman, I entered upon a new course, by becoming the artistic interpreter of a subject... "
The flying Dutchman. Tr. by J.P. Jackson - Page vii
by Wilhelm Richard Wagner - 1876
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Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future: History and Æstetics

Francis Hueffer - 1874 - 354 pages
...time affords new evidence of the strict reciprocity of his musical and poetical faculties. "InRiemi," he says, " my only purpose was to write an opera,...poem my faculty as a musician was restored to me. But as a poet I was again from the beginning conscious of my power of expressing musically the import...
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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent ..., Volume 2

George Grove - 1880 - 866 pages
...be studied in its most perfect form. His own words on the subject will be of interest. 'In Bienzi,' he says. ' my only purpose was to write an opera,...poet ; and only in the ultimate completion of the jx* in was my faculty as a musician restored to me. But as a poet I was again from the beginning conscious...
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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by Eminent ..., Volume 2

George Grove - 1880 - 778 pages
...subject as I found it ready made in another man's finished production. . . . With the Flying DutchИ'Ш, I entered upon a new course, by becoming the artistic...form of a popular tale. From this time I became, with ivgard to all my dramatic works, first of all a ;-,«* ; and only in the ultimate completion of the...
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Wagnerism: A Protest

Henry William Lovett Hime - 1882 - 144 pages
...evidence of the 'strict reciprocity' of his musical and poetical faculties. ' In " Rienzi," ' he says, ' I took my subject as I found it, ready made in another...my dramatic works, first of all a poet ; and only on the ultimate completion of the poem my faculty as a musician was restored to me. But as a poet I...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 23

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 522 pages
...poetry and music are associated becomes more pressing." " With The Flying Dutehman" says Wagner, " I entered upon a new course by becoming the artistic...of the poem my faculty as a musician was restored." legend of the " Flying Dutchman." "Here," he says, "amid the raging storms and conflicting waves, the...
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