Definitions
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- proper noun The
philosophical ideals put forward by Richard Wagner. - proper noun An attachment, sometimes fanatical, to the music of Wagner.
- proper noun The use of the Wagner Act, a form of
labour union legislation .
Etymologies
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"Wagnerism" is an attitude, and can only reply that it is so in
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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Her father was so frank as to say that "England was worth nothing except for her money," and Punch in his frequent references to the incident employs the term "Wagnerism" to express the point of view of opera-singers who would not abide by their contracts.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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The children – played, as always in full-scale productions of this opera, by adults – sing catchy tunes in the first act, which is connected to the second by the full-on Wagnerism of the Witch's Ride.
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If you have JSTOR access, you can read William Blisset's 1961 article "George Moore and Literary Wagnerism" and Timothy Martin's "Joyce, Wagner, and the Artist-Hero."
as a wagoner would his mudheeldy wheesindonk Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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If you have JSTOR access, you can read William Blisset's 1961 article "George Moore and Literary Wagnerism" and Timothy Martin's "Joyce, Wagner, and the Artist-Hero."
Archive 2007-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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This interesting volume of six essays with an introduction and conclusion traces some of the ramifications of Wagnerism both as an organized movement and as an artistic and intellectual influence in several countries.
Klingsor's Apprentices Joll, James 1985
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Wagnerism was a movement with implications that went far beyond the wall of the opera houses of the world, and the debate about the meaning of his symbolism and the interpretation of his works has never ceased.
Klingsor's Apprentices Joll, James 1985
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At this period, under the guise of Wagnerism, the wildest theories and the most extravagant assertions were current in musical criticism.
Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919
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In 1885 he made the acquaintance of Alexander Ritter, who, together with Hans von Bülow, is supposed to have converted young Strauss, until then a good Brahmsian, to Wagnerism and modernism.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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Indeed, the reaction of Debussy from Wagnerism was chiefly the reaction of a profoundly socialized and aristocratic sensibility outraged by over-emphasis and unrestraint.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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