As he gravitated toward a career in music from the late 1820s and into the 1830s, Wagner was torn between a cultural and perhaps philosophical allegiance to the symphonic tradition of Viennese classicism, above all the recently canon- ized genius of Beethoven, and a temperamental affinity with the conjunction of poetry, music, and theater in opera. By 1833 at the latest (when he composed his first operatic score, Die Feen), he had definitively cast his lot with opera, and
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despite unrealized hopes to write additional symphonies or symphonic poems of some kind in his retirement (that is, after Parsifal, 1882), he rarely strayed from his chosen vocation. The allegiance to Beethoven and a “German” symphonic ideal continued to be carefully cultivated as part of his artistic persona, however, as evidenced throughout his writings, his autobiographical texts, and his activity as a conductor.
As he gravitated toward a career in music from the late 1820s and into the 1830s, Wagner was torn between a cultural and perhaps philosophical allegiance to the symphonic tradition of Viennese classicism, above all the recently canon- ized genius of Beethoven, and a temperamental affinity with the conjunction of poetry, music, and theater in opera. By 1833 at the latest (when he composed his first operatic score, Die Feen), he had definitively cast his lot with opera, and
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THOMAS GREY
despite unrealized hopes to write additional symphonies or symphonic poems of some kind in his retirement (that is, after Parsifal, 1882), he rarely strayed from his chosen vocation. The allegiance to Beethoven and a “German” symphonic ideal continued to be carefully cultivated as part of his artistic persona, however, as evidenced throughout his writings, his autobiographical texts, and his activity as a conductor.
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