id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 16431 Runciman, John F. Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas .txt text/plain 114657 5053 71 Wagner, like Weber, wrote theatrical music for the theatre, whilst hint Wagner got from Meyerbeer we shall see when we examine the music. kind of thing when we come to the beginning of Wagner's riper work, Tannhäuser's music grows in intensity, and Wagner is careful time afterwards he played some of his music to Wagner, who found it dream is not dramatic as Wagner, by the time he wrote his next work, Wagner the songs are "absolute" music: the words were his own, and he Wagner was at his best when writing about music or about musicians he is Wagner's most perfect work, is the finest opera in the world. means believe even Wagner capable of writing a three-act music-drama Wagner's only opera in which music and drama had birth simultaneously So far as Wagner could he let music and drama grow up _Tannhäuser_ onward Wagner showed in the music of his operas a ./cache/16431.txt ./txt/16431.txt