Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of Richard Wagner, his music dramas, or his theories.
- noun An admirer or disciple of Richard Wagner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to any one named Wagner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or characteristic of Richard Wagner, or of his
music - noun an admirer of Richard Wagner
- noun a
musician who plays Wagnerian music - noun an
opera singer who specializes in Wagnerian roles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to Richard Wagner or his music
- noun a follower of the theories or an admirer of the music of Richard Wagner
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Examples
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The plot is ultimately no more absurd than that of The Ring, so there is some justice in having Voigt, best known as a Wagnerian soprano, sing Minnie.
NY Daily News 2010
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The plot is ultimately no more absurd than that of The Ring, so there is some justice in having Voigt, best known as a Wagnerian soprano, sing Minnie.
NY Daily News 2010
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And the music, which has a kind of Wagnerian longing to it, trembles and rises to several crescendos through the two scenes where Judy comes, first looking almost like Madeleine but not quite; and then with the bun in her hair, she finally comes in looking more like Madeleine than ever, with a kind of greenish halo.
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Of the French late Romantics, Albéric Magnard, a kind of Wagnerian classicist, is perhaps the most resistant to revival.
The New Yorker newyorker.com 2011
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Gretel "in the Wagnerian manner, but has done it with so much fluency and deftness that a musical layman might listen to it from beginning to end without suspecting the fact, save from the occasional employment of what may be called Wagnerian idioms.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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"Williams used a kind of Wagnerian leitmotif thing where various characters had themes that recurred.
Freep.com - RSS 2009
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Say the name Anton Bruckner, and majestic instrumental sonorities blaze across one's mind—emotional gestures against a backdrop of trembling strings, great motto-like themes of Wagnerian brass, rhythmic motifs weighty and satisfying.
Bruckner in a New Light Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Richard Strauss's biggest and most Wagnerian opera may be a repertory piece in German-speaking countries but in Britain it's rarely performed.
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And then came the extra enchantment: a magnificent coloratura voice emerged from this petite five-footer, one that could hold its own with Lauritz Melchior, the renowned Wagnerian tenor.
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From baroque ornament to Wagnerian swell to Debussy-like detachment, whether parodied or emulated it's all there, played with finesse by the ROH orchestra, elegantly cajoled and tickled into life by the French conductor Bertrand de Billy.
marky commented on the word Wagnerian
German.. pronounce the W as V.
November 7, 2010