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@fredocuomo5386

3 жыл бұрын

whats the name of your new channel...the link in the description goes to youtube studio

@OGDeepStroke

3 жыл бұрын

Simon, please keep the beard going.

@BlahBlah-mg6em

3 жыл бұрын

Can you do one on Babe Ruth please

@--enyo--

3 жыл бұрын

Request for Queen Anne, last of the Stuart’s.

@jamesboone3678

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a Violinist for big orchestas please do more of these I love classical music. I teach violin, viola, and cello. I adore my job!

When I was in college I was awarded a partial scholarship for singing in the choir. The choir would do a tour every spring and one of the years I was there we did the choir's first international tour, performing at churches in Denmark and in Germany. We got the opportunity to do a tour of the Wagner Opera house and when the guide found out that we were a visiting American choir they asked if we would perform one of songs on stage. We of course accepted and being that one of our songs was written by Wagner, we had to do that one. So a nobody from a small town in Iowa got the opportunity of performing a Wagner piece on stage in Wagner's Opera House.

@ruminyx3075

Жыл бұрын

Thats awesome xD im from iowa too c: gives me hope

@Elijah-qp5nh

Жыл бұрын

What college?

@stonecoldku4161

Жыл бұрын

@@Elijah-qp5nh It was Grand View College at the time. It is now Grand View University.

@hannesnaumann7101

11 ай бұрын

You are not nobody. Nobody's nobody. Even Cpt. Kirk comes from Iowa.

“Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite” Richard Wagner

@abrahamlincoln9758

2 жыл бұрын

Certainly shows where Mahler was coming from when he said: "If I could say it in words I wouldn't need to write symphonies." and "A symphony must be like the universe: it must contain everything."

Removing Wanger from the history of music is as difficult as removing Jane Austen from the history of the novel. Very, very hard because the influence is so deep.

@XIXCentury

3 жыл бұрын

the novel is a garbage medium anyways

@manupontheprecipice6254

3 жыл бұрын

@@XIXCentury I think you mean Light Novels are the true garbage medium.

@benjamintamang

3 жыл бұрын

Karadshian of novels

@wbx9126

2 жыл бұрын

@@XIXCentury what? Why do you say that

@kcbh24

2 жыл бұрын

Why would we remove Jane Austen from the history of novels?

Could you do a video on Franz Liszt? He’s an icon in the piano/classical music world

@annescholey6546

3 жыл бұрын

Lisa Simpson's school band leader Mr Largo

@rossfisher1843

3 жыл бұрын

Lisztomania!

So weird to see Simon mention Star Wars without saying, “I wouldn’t know, I haven’t seen it”

@forcedtohaveahandle

3 жыл бұрын

?

@nicolainielsen7700

3 жыл бұрын

@@forcedtohaveahandle I only have one thing to say: go watch Business Blaze. You absolutely won't regret it.

@mammuchan8923

3 жыл бұрын

I personally think he has seen at least some but has forgotten them ( who could blame him with all the info he’s got swirling around his head🤓

@bluebelle8823

3 жыл бұрын

I'd love to know how many of us pick up on stuff like this on Simon's other channels. Business Blaze is a pretty good insight.

@valerietaylor9615

10 ай бұрын

He hasn’t missed much.

Favourite Wagner quote - “I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.”

@seanleith5312

3 жыл бұрын

I only belive in Bach.

@angelareele858

Жыл бұрын

@@seanleith5312 Johann Christoph? (Ach das ich wassers gnug hatte) Johann Sebastian?(erbame dich mein gott)

@despicableone4495

Жыл бұрын

@@seanleith5312 Me too

@enzocypriani5055

11 ай бұрын

Yes wtf where is bach

@Todzuum

10 ай бұрын

Bach is god. So when he said I believe in god Beethoven and Mozart he was saying bach Mozart and Beethoven.

I've asking dis for long, A Biography on Fyodor Dostoevsky.

@d.c.8828

3 жыл бұрын

2nd!

@aaronpescasio

3 жыл бұрын

3rd.

@MrBrunoUSA

3 жыл бұрын

41st

@clickbait5714

3 жыл бұрын

5TH

@paulthrutner9114

3 жыл бұрын

So has David Brent 👍🏿🙈

I paid 300 dollars a seat at the NY Met' for me and my two children. Directed by Jimmie Lavine, it was Die Walküre and lasted 8 hours: it only seemed like an hour. Total magic. We were suck downed onto the stage and became part of the drama. He was nuts, but a genius of unknown quality.

@yumyumwhatzohai

3 жыл бұрын

Why are you making up lies? Die Walkure is only 3 hours tops..., I mean did they present a second opera with it, also James Levine is a conductor, so are you talking about him directing the music or directing the staging?

@TheZestyCar

3 жыл бұрын

Good lord. Well it sounds like you really enjoyed it.

@benjaminsagan5861

3 жыл бұрын

@@yumyumwhatzohai In fairness... with Levine conducting, most operas get quite a bit longer.

@yumyumwhatzohai

3 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminsagan5861 lol fair point

@lindaclark9925

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheZestyCar 😂

One of your best Bio Team. I've always been interested in who Wagner was considering he was Hitler's favourite composer, but never bothered looking him up. That's why I rely on Simon Whistler, the Oracle, to inform me of most things these days. One day when KZreadrs rise to power I'm sure they'll make a statue of Simon Whistler somewhere in cyberspace.

@chrispbacon8387

3 жыл бұрын

If this was reddit I'd be up voting the hell out of this comment and probably a gold 😂👍⭐

@robinhumphrey2692

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. And Wagner’s a tough bio, too.

@martytu20

3 жыл бұрын

One day we will know when Simon lost his hair.

@San_Deep2501

2 жыл бұрын

@@martytu20 he starting losing his hair from the day he began doing 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and 10km run everyday.

Oh, that Pringle reference! Your writers are brilliant. That deserves a BAH-DAH-BOOM-BOOM-TISSSSSSSSS!!!

@berryberrykixx

3 жыл бұрын

That joke with his posh English was "Random good Jimmy Carr one-liner" level.

My absolute favorite classical composer. It's no wonder that John Williams took a lot of inspiration from Wagner.

@sharolynwells

3 жыл бұрын

J. R. R. Tolkien as well

@heatherr0420

3 жыл бұрын

I never realized how much of an influence Wagner was on John Williams. I definitely can see how he did, though

@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.

3 жыл бұрын

Not as much as he took from Holst.

@olerocker3470

3 жыл бұрын

Richard Rodgers is another great example of one who uses leif motifs. Great example of his work is "Victory at Sea". Also Alexander Courage with the Star Trek themes.

@saidtoshimaru1832

3 жыл бұрын

And quite a lot from Stravinsky.

Bio of Tchaikovsky at some point, please

I will seek out whatever you are selling and buy it. I too am bald and I was balding at 25 years. That razor, square space and all your sponsors are right to fund you. Keep um coming. Mark in Bangkok a Texas lad of 70.

Nietzsche was not a professor of philosophy at age twenty four as stated in the video. He was a professor of classical philology. This would be similar to a professor of classical languages or a professor of classical studies today.

Thank you for this. Not an opera fan but I do enjoy Wagner. Myself like a lot of boomers, was introduced into classical music by Looney Tunes. My introduction to Wagner was the episode called What's Opera Doc? with Bugs and Elmer. And with Elmer singing 'Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit to the Flight of the Valkyries. Been a Wagner fan ever since.

“Composer’s block - if there’s such a thing.” Yes, there is. And I had experienced it for many years. It’s basically writer’s block for music writers. Nothing fanciful there.

@Arkarkyawwin

3 жыл бұрын

i've been experiencing both composer and writer's block since birth. I am an IT guy. I could never write a song or write anything.

@hinakomalin

3 жыл бұрын

Steven Moore , 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Don’t have to. It’s what most people I know would often say about his music.

@specialperson335

Жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, there are many composers known for having too many ideas, and not having enough time to write them down.

We need more videos like this from you: this length and about musicians/composers! Thank you.

When you are in music school and know Wagner's story from beggining to end, but still watch the video, because you love this channel

@TheOneAndOnlyZeno1889

3 жыл бұрын

Because you love (Wagner).

@vividedwards8909

3 жыл бұрын

True and I love Wanger

Minor correction, the city in known as Buy Royt not Bay Rooth

@valerietaylor9615

10 ай бұрын

That’s right. Beirut is in Lebanon ( where Fafner’s neck in the original production ended up.)

YES! THANK YOU GUYS! Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Handel for bios?

@sophiatalksmusic3588

3 жыл бұрын

Seconding Tchaikovsky!

Sean Bean would do a very good portrayal as him in a movie. Would love to see a biographical on Sir Terry Pratchett 💖💖

@lapamful

3 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Kemp would've also made a great Wagner, unfortunately passed away just last year :'(

@davidharkness1042

3 жыл бұрын

Pratchett would be great

@kelerews

3 жыл бұрын

That depends... can we make wagner die by impaling him with a giant satellite?

@PLTConductorComposer

3 жыл бұрын

There's a fantastic 10-hour film from 1973 with Richard Burton who is just perfect.

@kelerews

3 жыл бұрын

Did you just say 10 hours?

YAAAASS I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS ONE FOR AGES

@XYGamingRemedyG

3 жыл бұрын

Congrats dude

I absolutely love the prelude to Lohengrin. It's just beautiful. The buildup is fantastic.

@Mahlerweber

Жыл бұрын

One of my earliest exposures to Wagner's music via Arthur Fiedler and Boston Pops

Richard Wagner was the only major European composer who was deeply inspired and influenced by India’s ancient Vedic philosophy like most German intellectuals at the time. He also gained lot of knowledge on Indian philosophy from his brother in law Herman Brockhaus who was a well known professor of Sanskrit at Leipzig University. Wagner has interpreted Indian philosophy in his later works such as Lohengrin, Tristan, Parsifal and his epic opera the Ring Cycle.

Why couldn't my history of music class be this interesting? I would have actually learned and paid attention

Can we get a biography on Simon whistler

@bratman82

3 жыл бұрын

Can we get a biographic on Simon's beard?

@maximilianolimamoreira5002

3 жыл бұрын

@@bratman82 massive,glorious and beautifully made.😄

@Samm815

3 жыл бұрын

No? But if you want to hear some stories from his youth go watch Business Blaze. Simon lets his (nonexistent) hair down.

Errata 1:36: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played the organ in the Thomaskirche but did not work in the aforementioned church.

Baudelaire was also in awe of Wagner and wrote an essay, "Richard Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris", published 1861.

I have loved Wagner and his music. You have made a monumental biography of a difficult man. Warts and all of a super talent are told in Simon's signature style. There will be a bronze of this man Simon in a hundred years when KZread is only a legend. Simon, you are a legend!

Von trier uses his music to majestic affect in melancholia. Also 1980’s Excalibur by John boormaan uses Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde to a stirring fashion. Great stuff biographics!

@shebbs1

3 жыл бұрын

Plus a lot of Karl Orff's "Carmina Burana", another composer who's work was tainted, quite unfairly, by nazi association.

@paulherzog9605

3 жыл бұрын

That was s a good movie. Brutal & as realistic as imagined. I think it put most of Ireland to work.

@paulherzog9605

3 жыл бұрын

ZARDOZ. With Sean Connery. Good one

I shed my first sincere tears when I heard a performance of Tristan und Isolde

Thank you for finally covering music history; I’ve been waiting so long for this!!!

Love the longer form video, but you had me dying at the Pringle joke! Bravo!

We need more Biographics on composers 🎼🎹🎺🎻

@vividedwards8909

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

Wagner and I share the same birthday. I will now require a symphony to play the ride of the valkyrie instead of everyone's terrible off key happy birthday.

@olerocker3470

3 жыл бұрын

The day I turned 40 I went into my office, closed the door, and put on Siegfried's Funeral March. Then I stoically embraced my middle agedness and went about my business.

@LeglessWonder

3 жыл бұрын

Now you get everyone humming Wagner terribly off key 😂

Well done for subverting the usual tropes and having an objective view on Wagner and Nazism. I've read a bit on Wagner and yours is an excellent summary of the masses of information that could have been covered. Enjoyable - Thanks! PS. Bryan Magee's book 'Wagner and Philosophy' is a great exploration of philosophical ideas through the lens of Wagner and his operas.

Well done!!! Keep up with the composer bios!! These are wonderful!!!!

Whenever I listen to Wagner, I get the urge to conquer Poland.

@Tubomiro

3 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂

@maximilianolimamoreira5002

3 жыл бұрын

ah,come on,guys,not cool.

@magivkmeister6166

3 жыл бұрын

Poland, the most invaded country in europe😂

@TheLisandro1987

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@seanbrazell6147

3 жыл бұрын

It does that.

Thank you for your content! Only seen a few of your videos but they are thorough and cover topics that need a keen eye

Can you do one on the Superman, Richard Strauss? I saw Thus Spoke Zarathustra at the Boston Symphony Hall back in the 1990s.

@geneklee7608

3 жыл бұрын

Although Richard Strauss’ music was great, he was not a very interesting person and didn’t have a very interesting life.

@anthonylewis2080

3 жыл бұрын

@@geneklee7608 : In other words, he was focused on his career and influence rather than the less savoury side of life, far better to keep a low profile - Schumann reportedly was an alcoholic, unfortunately Vivaldi (known as The Red Priest) died penniless.

Anyone besides me noticed that Wagner's 15 hour opera sounds like Lord of the Rings

@lapamful

3 жыл бұрын

All the big name movies had their themes pinched from various great composers.

@Akuryoutaisan21

3 жыл бұрын

That's because Wagners ring cycle and the Lord of the Rings are both inspired by earlier european folktales and mythology. The idea of a magic ring (the ring of gyges) that can make the wielder invisible, and how that power could corrupt that individual was also present in Platos writing 2500 years ago,

@TrumpetDude224

3 жыл бұрын

You mean Lord of the Rings sounds like Wagner’s 15 hour opera.

@shebbs1

3 жыл бұрын

@@lapamful And those composers were usually the middle-men, having gained their inspirations from earlier works, often from classical cultures, be they songs or stories or legends..

@paulheap1982

3 жыл бұрын

@@lapamful he means the story, not the music.

Very good presentation Mr. Whistler. The saying "it ain't over until the fat lady sings" comes from the Ring. The fat lady being Brünhilde. She has a final aria and throws herself in the pit of fire ending the series and 15 hours of your life that will never return. Also the cartoon operas always show singers with Viking horns, that's also from the Ring. (Thanks, and work a little on your German.)

@valerietaylor9615

10 ай бұрын

Actually, most modern Ring productions do not include horned helmets. But when I just listen to the music, I always picture the characters wearing them. I just can’t help it.

1:20 - Chapter 1 - First notes of the scale 6:20 - Chapter 2 - The flying saxon 13:15 - Chapter 3 - Revolution & exile 18:05 - Mid roll ads 19:45 - Chapter 4 - Your N°1 fan 25:55 - Chapter 5 - A cathedral of music 31:35 - Chapter 6 - An uncomfortable legacy

Bayreuth = "BYE-roit"

@javiergilvidal1558

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, very annoying how he pronounces the name of the town. Makes you think Wagner worked in Lebanon!

@fbcpraise

Ай бұрын

Tahn-HOI-zer

Since you love WW2, Cold War, and classical composers, please consider Dimitri Shostakovich.

There's a lot of nonsense written about Wagner.

EXCELLENT BIO!! way superior to any other I've seen on youtube. Subscribed!

What the Nazi's did was to manipulate History to achieve their goals - not a new thing but it was taken to the next level by Goebbels. Churchill did the same but he knew that what he was doing was cherry picking History but he also knew he needed to do it for a noble reason. Adam Curtis, a British journalist and social scientist who works for the BBC made a 3 part series about it called "The Living Dead". The first episode has Nazi Germany as one of his themes - and the last one talks about how Thatcher - who heard Churchill as a child - held that cherry picked History as the real History - and try to rebuild "the good old times of imperial Britain" as if there were no bad times ... The second episode is about how what we consider to be the real history affects our behaviors and, in the case of high ranking officials, the behavior of States. I also tells how history inevitably loses an important component: the personal experience of those who lived though it - and that goes back to the interviews done in the first episode. I also will show, by the end, that History is not a simple collection of data. The most important aspect of History we all must learn is how and why some events and facts enter the textbooks - how History is written, created and researched. We all live History because the present becomes the past instantaneously. This post will become History when I click on the button "Comment" - well ... at least data I'm sure it will become!

@shebbs1

3 жыл бұрын

It is true that every culture, state and most famous people portray a highly selective, often crafted view of themselves. It is harder to get away with outrageous claims now, but many try.

Great video! Wagner was the favorite composer of John Philip Sousa.

@geneklee7608

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, whenever I hear Sousa I want to invade Cuba and the Philippines. 😏

@slav1467

3 жыл бұрын

@@geneklee7608 I just want to open a can of good ol' fashioned America liberation whenever I hear Sousa.

@valerietaylor9615

10 ай бұрын

I didn’t know that.

I majored in music, and one of my professors was FURIOUS when I wrote an essay on Richard Wagner. He then told the whole class to rip out the pages about Wagner from our music history books, and we could skip all questions about him on the exam. In other classes with this same professor, he refused to conduct nor even let students perform songs by Wagner, insisting "no antisemitic music would be heard in these halls." Yet when we pointed out all the other antisemitic composers who were far more vocal about the issue, he refused to treat them with the same animosity. As a trombonist who had prepared to perform "Flight of the Valkyries" in an audition, this ban on wagnerian music was troubling. He outright refused to listen to me the day of my audition to the uni's wind symphony, and I had to scramble for a new song to perform right there on the spot, which led to a horrible audition and I ended up last chair of the 2nd trombones, basically the lowest a tenor trombone can be placed. Part of me thinks that low placement was due to my love for Wagner's music (despite my hate for his sociopolitical views) rather than the actual quality of my performance (which was anxiety-filled, granted).

@roderickwhitehead

3 жыл бұрын

This is probably the most "makes you think" comment for this video.

@katiewinchester3757

3 жыл бұрын

Which other composers were antisemitic? I barely know anything about classical music, composers, and the like, and I'm genuinely curious!

@rhov-anion

3 жыл бұрын

@@katiewinchester3757 Off hand, I recall Chopin, Mussorgsky, Liszt to a lesser extent. (Wagner insisted Liszt was not anti-Semitic, yet his own letters hint otherwise.) Richard Strauss, who my professor loved to perform, hung out with Nazis and even asked a high ranking Nazi Party member to protect his child's in-laws, who were Jewish, by having them remain under house arrest rather than sent to a concentration camp. (It's hard to debate if this meant he did not hate Jews, or if being buddies with high ranking Nazi meant he was okay with genocide so long as it wasn't family.) Tchaikovsky kept his hatred private, but letters he wrote show he used slurs against Jews and felt they stank up the air on trains. Another composer notorious for hate rhetoric yet super popular in classic music (and with my professor) was Australian composer Percy Grainger, who is about as offensive and flamboyant as they come! Grainger insisted he wasn't anti-Semitic because his secretary was a Jew, but he believed blue-eyed Nordic people were naturally superior, they were the only "sane" race, and all other races (including Jews) were insane and greedy. Yet he was the sort who loved to play the White Savior and care for people of color like they were all helpless lost souls. So, a charitable racist. Fun.... In more recent music, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd very openly talks about his opinions of Jews and Israel (which can be separate issues, but he clumps them together in his stage shows).

@juancasinisterra

3 жыл бұрын

@@rhov-anion wow that was very informative. Thank you! And I hope you ended up having a good career in music in the end :)

@r.t.h.k.o

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good professor

Simon, if you're doing composers, do Mahler. Dude wrote the best symphony of all time. Or do Stede Bonnet, wealthy 18th Century landowner who decided one day he'd had enough of all this and became a pirate.

@jmchez

2 жыл бұрын

Woah, even Mahler thought that Beethoven's 9th was the best. He even had his own arrangement of Beethoven's work, that arrangement is still quite popular.

I laughed way too hard at the Pringle joke

@annescholey6546

3 жыл бұрын

Would you like a crisp?

I heard of wagner through being a metalhead. Classical music has some interesting parallells and tangents in metal. A lot of great guitarists drew inspiration from the classics.

@iryna9483

3 жыл бұрын

🤘

@hannesnaumann7101

11 ай бұрын

Joey de Maio

Thanks Simon, can you also do Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

Please consider doing videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Jack London 3. Upton Sinclair 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen 6. Anton LaVey 7. Annaliese Michel

Wagner's music is extraordinary. I'm 51 and have played Classical violin since I was 4 (you have to start very young, it is a very tricky instrument to master). Of course I have heard and performed Wagner over the years but it was only in my mid 40s when I really begun to understand his genius as a composer, his orchestration is simply awesome, he was able to paint masterpieces using music instead of brushes. Listen to the Prelude to Lohengrin and you will hear this.. it's extraordinary.

What a wonderful piece. I had no idea who this person was, despite being so profusely acquainted with some of his works. The man was a composer, a true force of artistic influence and a magnet for political and philosophical head figures. Failed, hailed, flawed and lauded.

Please do Biographics episodes on Scott Joplin, Ella Fitzgerald, and Cab Calloway!

@d.c.8828

3 жыл бұрын

@BLUE DOG Completely irrelevant, but there is a legal monopoly on resources, and there are cost barriers on market entry. It is illegal to sell shoes without purchasing costly permits from the government and giving the government a cut. Plus all the large multinational corporations like Nike get subsidies and don't have to pay taxes, which gives them a significant advantage over a cobbler or collective trying to sell shoes out of their garage.

Thanks for another interesting and informative video

I’m beginning to think Simon’s beard needs its own channel now 🤣🤣

@thegurem

3 жыл бұрын

BeardoGraphics? Business Beard? BeardBlaze

Musician here; composer's block is REAL

I once called him Dick Wagner (as in wag -ner not Vagner) in my university music history class. My prof actually got mad at me.

@theConquerersMama

2 жыл бұрын

As they should.

@jeans1515

2 жыл бұрын

@@theConquerersMama Why? I find it funny how this stuff is taken as sacred. . I bet Ol' Dick Wagner would laugh at it. I can't imagine being so uptight about a thing that I would get actual mad at someone for taking the piss out of it. Classical music is funny to me, its held aloft by tunes composed 150 or more years ago, barely chugging on in its glass tower, but it THINKS its so relevant. Go to an art museum, the contemporary exhibits are loaded with people every day, all day. Put on a contemporary classical (oxymoron of a name isn't it) performance in a medium sized city and you might get 15 people for one show. So, no. getting mad about a joke that is about how serious you take a thing like this is not ok, its sad.

Yeaah! Nice one! Love it. You should do salazar of portugal.

@maximilianolimamoreira5002

3 жыл бұрын

that bastard made Portugal even more backwards,and is also the reason i don't trust that much the Oliveiras,though it's not your fault.

I cant even, this made my life on so many levels. I been askin'. Thank You! Bravo! Well done!!!

@ryansutter4291

3 жыл бұрын

I studied him at University, thanks...Maybe you, you're gonna have to actually read a book.

Simon, I think you should permanently name your space heater "the squarspace space heater for heating square spaces sponsored by squarspace"

Finally a classical composer! Thank you Biographics.

I'd like to request that you guys do Peter Sellers or Immanuel Kant please, thanks!

@geneklee7608

3 жыл бұрын

How about “The Influence of Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy on the Work of Peter Sellers”?

@geneklee7608

3 жыл бұрын

Descartes’ life was far more interesting than Kant’s.

@joshreichardt2485

3 жыл бұрын

@@geneklee7608 true Kant was kind of boring man, one fun annecdote was that Kant would always take a walk at the same time that you could set your watch to him.

@andrewhalter876

3 жыл бұрын

@@geneklee7608 Sure, do Descartes too, then I'd understand

@valerietaylor9615

10 ай бұрын

I once read that on the day Kant read Rousseau’s “ Emile”, he got so wrapped up in it, that he forgot to take his walk. As a result, many citizens of Koenigsberg were late for appointments that day.

Love composers, would love more!

@anthonylewis2080

3 жыл бұрын

Juan De Cristomo Arriaga (hope I got the name correct) probably has the tragic accolade of any composer who ever existed : he was only 19 years old when he passed away - there's a start.

This is hands down my favorite Biographics episode. The reason I didn't click immediately as that I wouldn't concentrate while I was at work.

I liked the video, and you do a great job. Though I would have loved even a brief mention of the Tristan chord, even at risk of being boring to non musically inclined. Its influence deserved as much.

Can I ask why you haven't made a video on Bach yet?

@geneklee7608

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not enough that a composer’s work be great (or a writer’s or an artist’s). His life itself has to be interesting, with some drama and preferably some scandal.

@LeglessWonder

3 жыл бұрын

Just to piggyback on this question ... when Simon finally does a video on him I will be very perturbed if he doesn’t make an “I’ll be Bach” joke

@valerietaylor9615

10 ай бұрын

Bach’s life wasn’t exactly devoid of interest or scandal. He fought a duel once, served a prison sentence, and was married twice and had twenty children. Incidentally, Simon didn’t mention the fact that Wagner served a sentence in debtor’s prison during his first stay in Paris.

And if there’s something that we can learn from Wagner’s life other than that failures are an inevitability in a life of true success, is that marriage can be a _hell of a complication than perhaps one artist focusing on his musical career would be better off avoiding._

Hey biographics. Could you do a video about Kaiser wilhelm the first

@geneklee7608

3 жыл бұрын

Ludwig I of Bavaria was also interesting, especially his affair with Lola Montez. Montez herself would make an interesting subject.

This reminds me of Apocalypse Now, with the helicopters and the music of Wagner playing in the background. That scene introduced me to his works. After all these years, I'm glad it did!

Richard Wagner was a masterful composer. The Ring of the Nibelungs, Tannhauser, and The Master Singers of Nuremberg are my three favourites. I've seen their music dramas on KZread. Very beautiful.

I saw siegried live, about 6 hours of heavy opera. Sadly without acting. My gf was fast asleep after about 40 minuts

@javiergilvidal1558

3 жыл бұрын

Change your girlfriend!

@thegurem

3 жыл бұрын

@@javiergilvidal1558 i did

@javiergilvidal1558

3 жыл бұрын

@@thegurem Good!

Without king Ludwig 2nd his life would ve taken a tragic path of failure.

Don’t get me wrong, I bloody love your videos and they’re super interesting but I’m so excited to finally watch a video within my own interests! “Classical” music is so easily forgotten about with younger generations but if you go looking you’ll find many of us actually love it! Twoset Violin is a prime example. Thank you for this video! X

Hi from Germany here, I would like to inform that there is mostly no controversy over Wagner from where I am from (Bayern), we universaly agree he was a brilliant composer and musician as well as an undisputed Ahole XD still wonderful video!

@samuelterry6354

3 жыл бұрын

Aren't there any defenders of Wagner's character in Germany?

@valerietaylor9615

10 ай бұрын

Very little can be said in favor of Wagner’s character, alas.

@HansRagnarMathisen-oe2jj

3 ай бұрын

@@valerietaylor9615 Are you sure? He was a capricious fellow. When he met the Emperor of Brazil, He made a headstand in front of him… 😀

Excellent report.

Regardless of Wilhelm Richard Wagner's questionable views, in my view he's no less than a brilliant composer.

I’ve played so many of this dudes pieces back in high school and as a trombone player I had TONS of fun

Since you've mentioned him in the video and considering that this year marks the 270th anniversary of his death, how about a video on Johann Sebastian Bach?

Richard Wagner looks a lot like Stephen Fry...or Stephen Fry looks like Richard Wagner, either one

@mussoletart8485

3 жыл бұрын

Stephen Fry did an interesting documentary about him, 'Wagner & Me', about liking his music while being of Jewish descent.

@yumyumwhatzohai

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if you know, but Stephen Fry is a huge Wagnerian, he even did a documentary about it.

I swear that beard grows more epic with every video.

One of the greatest and most interesting figures in classical music. Great video

Can you please make a video about Cecil John Rhoades,Paul Kruger and Piet Retief

@thegurem

3 жыл бұрын

Second that! Rhoades!

Great video! As always, I'm going to continue to request a Biographic for the teacher and mentor of Bruce Lee, Ip Man. This has been a 2 year crusade for me. Please, let me rest. Lol

"Wagner's music is not half as bad as it sounds".Mark Twain.

@fademusic1980

3 жыл бұрын

The fact that they coexisted blows my mind

@peterwindhorst5775

3 жыл бұрын

@@fademusic1980 How about Mark Twain being friends with Nokola Tesla.

@fademusic1980

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterwindhorst5775 poor tesla, theft isnt a strong enough word

@LeglessWonder

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Windhorst The one that always blows my mind is how Orville Wright died when Neil Armstrong was 18. We went from learning to fly to walking on the moon in that short of a time

Ah! Excellent work! If you're going to do some more classical composers, Beethoven would be a great place to start!

Don't think I've ever heard such mispronunciation of German names and terms.

@LeglessWonder

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Biographics... and all of Simon’s channels, for that matter.

27:40 The neck ended up in Beirut, this is the best part of the whole story🤣🤣

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

Bayreuth

@mammuchan8923

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandybarnes887 almost positive he says “Beirut”, his delivery is just so brilliantly deadpan, I missed it at first

When is it exactly when you stop and inhale?

A pretty good, though necessarily quick, precise of Wagner's life and work. No one could expect the detail of Ernest Newman’s massive four-volume biography in a 30 minute youtube. My one complaint is that the only music you use is Ride of the Valkyries…okay, with snippets of Parsifal and a few others. But not at least a few notes of the Lohengrin Prelude? A whiff of Tristan? Meistersinger? Or even the Bugs Bunny Hollander/Tannhäuser music? While I understand TRotV is Wagner’s main calling card for contemporary audiences thanks to Apocalypse Now, a touch more variety couldn’t have hurt. That said, you handled a massive subject with much enlightening aplomb for those unfamiliar with this world-changing artist.

@jmchez

2 жыл бұрын

I kept waiting for the most orgasmic and apotheotic piece of music ever written, The Liebestod.

A ring to rule them all? Hmmm...Am I the only one who recognized Lord of the Ring?

@mikeock1881

3 жыл бұрын

tolkien drew a lot of inspiration from wagner, that was an intentional nod to that fact

@olerocker3470

3 жыл бұрын

Many similarities, but a much happier ending to TLOTR.

@olerocker3470

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeock1881 Rather, Wagner drew the Ring Cycle from the Norse Volsunga Saga whereas Tolkein drew from the poems and heroic lays of the Elder Edda. The former being a subset of the latter.

@sashakazmar6142

3 жыл бұрын

And he said it without adding “I’ve never seen it” :)

@freakysteve140281

3 жыл бұрын

Almost blatant plagiarism... eyebrows raised

Saw a production of "The Ring" by NY Met. Awesome. A true moving experience. Rapture in opera.

Thanks for this one, very detailed and balanced coverage.

15:28....I died laughing That’s the best part of this channel and its sisters. The amazing ability to present information and keep it funny

The beard is more elegant than ever, just about to over take rasputin and claim the best beard of 2020!

@geekbeer5846

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know Rasputin was still one of the contenders for 2020... 😂😂

@TechSupport900

3 жыл бұрын

In my books you can be alive or dead, he is still behind Santa Denmark leader, Christian IX and Franz-Josef

@cpegg5840

3 жыл бұрын

You Habsburgs are good at growing beards too; you have to cover up the incest features 😂

@jtb6737

3 жыл бұрын

the beard is definitely epic

@stevenwebb3634

3 жыл бұрын

What about Ned Kelly?