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Wagnerian

[ US /ˌvɑɡˈnɛɹiən, ˌwæɡˈnɛɹiən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a follower of the theories or an admirer of the music of Richard Wagner
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to Richard Wagner or his music

How To Use Wagnerian In A Sentence

  • he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre
  • There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera.
  • To the untrained ear, the Wagnerian clarinet sounds almost identical to its more modern cousin.
  • In the interval Sutcliffe spent some time trying to imagine what sort of a figure the boyfriend of the Wagnerian Helga could be. POLITICAL SUICIDE
  • Fans of the stuff are masonically loyal, prickling with a defensiveness and an ardor that not even Wagnerians can match. Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Comics
  • Loud, Wagnerian (she by now has learned to recognize) opera. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character.
  • The Wagnerian _leit-motif_ idea is adopted in this and other works of his, and the chief objection to his writing is its too great fidelity to the Wagnerian manner, -- notably in the use of suspensions and passing-notes, -- otherwise he is a very powerful harmonist and an instrumenter of rare sophistication. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • Conductor Alan Gilbert's approach was large-scale and Wagnerian, with an orchestral sound that stressed power rather than delicacy and often covered the voices, making it difficult to distinguish the text an English translation by Norman Tucker without relying on the supertitles. The Beauty of the Beasts
  • Mr. Skelton is likewise at home with the heavy-duty Wagnerian repertoire, having won critical acclaim in such roles as "Siegmund San Francisco Sentinel
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