Tuesday Wagner
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
Ride of the Valkries conducted by Claudio Abbado, performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker
I will always associated this piece with the dawn helicopter raid scene from Apocalypse Now.
I think there is nothing wrong with enjoying Wagner's music, sure he was probably a bad person but what musician isn't? I make the observation that a lot of great music is made by bad people, just look at Marvin Gaye (shot by his own father) or Lou Reed.
Going back to composers, how many left their wives, had affairs, took drugs, died of syphilis and so on? A fair few I imagine.
I think to be a genius at what you do you have to be slightly mad or at least not normal.
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
Ride of the Valkries conducted by Claudio Abbado, performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker
I will always associated this piece with the dawn helicopter raid scene from Apocalypse Now.
I think there is nothing wrong with enjoying Wagner's music, sure he was probably a bad person but what musician isn't? I make the observation that a lot of great music is made by bad people, just look at Marvin Gaye (shot by his own father) or Lou Reed.
Going back to composers, how many left their wives, had affairs, took drugs, died of syphilis and so on? A fair few I imagine.
I think to be a genius at what you do you have to be slightly mad or at least not normal.
Labels: Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Valkries, Wagner
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