Happy Birthday to the Master Orchestrator of them all...

[Corno Dolce]

Today is Big Day 200 for the GrandDaddy Orchestrator yet born. Here's a video in his honor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9QIEvARo1M&fmt=18

Happy Birthday to The Man from Leipzig...

And another one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UubmRHolrXc&fmt=18

 

[John Watt]

Even Jimi Hendrix talked about Wagner.
Somehow the Valkerie evolved into "Little Wing".

 

[CMB]

not enough thumbs up!

 

[JHC]

Both good works CD but I really do prefer the orchestral version, to me they sound quite thick with the organ not wishing to offend the Organ nuts on MIMF :cheers:

 

[Corno Dolce]

not enough thumbs up!

True, but then again this is a Wagner Year, and, a Verdi Year too...So, ample enough time to celebrate The Man of Bayreuth...:up::up::up::up::up:

 

[JHC]

I picked this up from TC poor old Wagner was a short arse!

 

[Chi_townPhilly]

I picked this up from TC poor old Wagner was a short arse!

Well, maybe not so much- at least not in context, anyway...

As a man he was not tall, but neither was he the dwarf he is sometimes made out to be: his Swiss passport of 1849 records his height as 5ft 6½in. (1m. 69.16cm). Barry Millington, The Wagner Compendium

By 19th Century Continental European standards, he wasn't too far away from male average.

In fact, the BOLO (be-on-the-lookout) notice concerning his status as a fugitive in the Dresden insurrection cited 'average' height. It is said that his then-wife Minna was relieved that the would-be details were so non-descript. ["could be anybody- thank God" was the (possibly apocryphal) declamation she is purported to have uttered.]

I hypothesize that the 5'5" figure for Wagner is a "time-of-death" statistic. [Height of course decreases with age, due primarily to disc compression- although other factors are involved, as well.] Random musing- how many people would have figured that Wagner was 3-4 inches taller than Beethoven?!

 

[JHC]

Well, maybe not so much- at least not in context, anyway...By 19th Century Continental European standards, he wasn't too far away from male average.

In fact, the BOLO (be-on-the-lookout) notice concerning his status as a fugitive in the Dresden insurrection cited 'average' height. It is said that his then-wife Minna was relieved that the would-be details were so non-descript. ["could be anybody- thank God" was the (possibly apocryphal) declamation she is purported to have uttered.]

I hypothesize that the 5'5" figure for Wagner is a "time-of-death" statistic. [Height of course decreases with age, due primarily to disc compression- although other factors are involved, as well.] Random musing- how many people would have figured that Wagner was 3-4 inches taller than Beethoven?!

OK OK OK I wish I hadn't mentioned it now :shake:
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