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Johannes Brahms
Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Wagner
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frederick Delius
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Richard Wagner

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[1813 - 1883]
a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas [...] [he] revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama.

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music sample: Ride of the Valkyries. [a.k.a. kill da wabbit]
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Really, Christian thought playfully, at a time like this, I should be humming Wagner. It is probably a kind of treachery to the Greater Third Reich not to be singing Siegfried today. He didn't like Wagner very much, but he promised himself he would think of some Wagner after he got through with the clarinet quintet.

Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.58 (1948)
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A Wagner piece was thundering from the quad speakers,

Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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Wagnerian music, though confessedly grand in its way, was a bit too heavy for Bloom and hard to follow at the first go-off

James Joyce. Ulysses.
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Levin maintained that the mistake of Wagner and all his followers lay in their trying to take music into the sphere of another art, just as poetry goes wrong when it tries to paint a face as the art of painting ought to do,

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina.
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