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Isn't then Wagner a great composer? I read in an old interwiew that
Lorin Maazel, who undoubtly was one of the finest conductors who ever hold
the baton, evn he had problems with Wagner, of conductin technics and as
respect for the great masters keen personality through the music. he said
in the interwiew among many things that his two most difficult desicions in
his life was the first to take up the task to conduct Wagner - which ended
in his instrumental cycle - and the other to stop conducting Wagner.
To the question on which was the finest memory from his musical carrer,
Maazel replies. "When I was young man, for first time read the score to
"Tristan" it was like the sky lightened in flash and the earth trembled
[...] That day changed my whole life. Forever."
And he did stop conducting W of the most utter respect. "I am not grown
enough to do it" - said the best conductor.
That is rare fine, when a master tells he is not great enough.
Thomas Krafft
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