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@fredocuomo53864 жыл бұрын
whats the name of your new channel...the link in the description goes to youtube studio
@OGDeepStroke4 жыл бұрын
Simon, please keep the beard going.
@BlahBlah-mg6em4 жыл бұрын
Can you do one on Babe Ruth please
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
Request for Queen Anne, last of the Stuart’s.
@jamesboone36784 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!
@ethanramos44414 жыл бұрын
“Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite” Richard Wagner
@abrahamlincoln97582 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."
@stonecoldku41614 жыл бұрын
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.
@ruminyx30752 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 Жыл бұрын
You are not nobody. Nobody's nobody. Even Cpt. Kirk comes from Iowa.
@myanrueller914 жыл бұрын
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.
@XIXCentury4 жыл бұрын
the novel is a garbage medium anyways
@manupontheprecipice62543 жыл бұрын
@@XIXCentury I think you mean Light Novels are the true garbage medium.
@benjamintamang3 жыл бұрын
Karadshian of novels
@wbx91263 жыл бұрын
@@XIXCentury what? Why do you say that
@kcbh242 жыл бұрын
Why would we remove Jane Austen from the history of novels?
@coldramen_14 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video on Franz Liszt? He’s an icon in the piano/classical music world
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
Lisa Simpson's school band leader Mr Largo
@rossfisher18434 жыл бұрын
Lisztomania!
@timetraveltvniles76504 жыл бұрын
Favourite Wagner quote - “I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.”
@seanleith53123 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 Жыл бұрын
Yes wtf where is bach
@Todzuum Жыл бұрын
Bach is god. So when he said I believe in god Beethoven and Mozart he was saying bach Mozart and Beethoven.
@toric60054 жыл бұрын
So weird to see Simon mention Star Wars without saying, “I wouldn’t know, I haven’t seen it”
@forcedtohaveahandle4 жыл бұрын
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@nicolainielsen77004 жыл бұрын
@@forcedtohaveahandle I only have one thing to say: go watch Business Blaze. You absolutely won't regret it.
@mammuchan89234 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🤓
@bluebelle88234 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 Жыл бұрын
He hasn’t missed much.
@trj14424 жыл бұрын
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 KZbinrs rise to power I'm sure they'll make a statue of Simon Whistler somewhere in cyberspace.
@chrispbacon83874 жыл бұрын
If this was reddit I'd be up voting the hell out of this comment and probably a gold 😂👍⭐
@robinhumphrey26924 жыл бұрын
Agree. And Wagner’s a tough bio, too.
@martytu204 жыл бұрын
One day we will know when Simon lost his hair.
@San_Deep25013 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.
@moasil22494 жыл бұрын
I've asking dis for long, A Biography on Fyodor Dostoevsky.
@d.c.88284 жыл бұрын
2nd!
@aaronpescasio4 жыл бұрын
3rd.
@MrBrunoUSA4 жыл бұрын
41st
@clickbait57144 жыл бұрын
5TH
@paulthrutner91144 жыл бұрын
So has David Brent 👍🏿🙈
@pamelamays41864 жыл бұрын
Oh, that Pringle reference! Your writers are brilliant. That deserves a BAH-DAH-BOOM-BOOM-TISSSSSSSSS!!!
@berryberrykixx4 жыл бұрын
That joke with his posh English was "Random good Jimmy Carr one-liner" level.
@chrisaguilera15644 жыл бұрын
My absolute favorite classical composer. It's no wonder that John Williams took a lot of inspiration from Wagner.
@sharolynwells4 жыл бұрын
J. R. R. Tolkien as well
@heatherr04204 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.4 жыл бұрын
Not as much as he took from Holst.
@olerocker34704 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.
@saidtoshimaru18324 жыл бұрын
And quite a lot from Stravinsky.
@BatchelderPatrick4 жыл бұрын
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.
@yumyumwhatzohai4 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?
@TheZestyCar4 жыл бұрын
Good lord. Well it sounds like you really enjoyed it.
@benjaminsagan58613 жыл бұрын
@@yumyumwhatzohai In fairness... with Levine conducting, most operas get quite a bit longer.
@yumyumwhatzohai3 жыл бұрын
@@benjaminsagan5861 lol fair point
@lindaclark99253 жыл бұрын
@@TheZestyCar 😂
@hinakomalin4 жыл бұрын
“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.
@Arkarkyawwin4 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.
@hinakomalin4 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.
@rharvey234 жыл бұрын
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.
@yodaonketamine57064 жыл бұрын
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
@TheOneAndOnlyZeno4 жыл бұрын
Because you love (Wagner).
@vividedwards89094 жыл бұрын
True and I love Wanger
@Wulfshade4 жыл бұрын
Bio of Tchaikovsky at some point, please
@amagiordi26154 жыл бұрын
YAAAASS I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS ONE FOR AGES
@XYGamingRemedyG4 жыл бұрын
Congrats dude
@diliproy6455 Жыл бұрын
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.
@411MooCow4 жыл бұрын
Why couldn't my history of music class be this interesting? I would have actually learned and paid attention
@os88564 жыл бұрын
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!
@shebbs14 жыл бұрын
Plus a lot of Karl Orff's "Carmina Burana", another composer who's work was tainted, quite unfairly, by nazi association.
@paulherzog96054 жыл бұрын
That was s a good movie. Brutal & as realistic as imagined. I think it put most of Ireland to work.
@paulherzog96054 жыл бұрын
ZARDOZ. With Sean Connery. Good one
@kiramiller5684 жыл бұрын
Sean Bean would do a very good portrayal as him in a movie. Would love to see a biographical on Sir Terry Pratchett 💖💖
@lapamful4 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Kemp would've also made a great Wagner, unfortunately passed away just last year :'(
@davidharkness10424 жыл бұрын
Pratchett would be great
@kelerews4 жыл бұрын
That depends... can we make wagner die by impaling him with a giant satellite?
@PLTConductorComposer4 жыл бұрын
There's a fantastic 10-hour film from 1973 with Richard Burton who is just perfect.
@kelerews4 жыл бұрын
Did you just say 10 hours?
@mushroomedanymore6334 жыл бұрын
We need more videos like this from you: this length and about musicians/composers! Thank you.
@phantombeard62624 жыл бұрын
YES! THANK YOU GUYS! Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Handel for bios?
@sophiatalksmusic35884 жыл бұрын
Seconding Tchaikovsky!
@Tubomiro4 жыл бұрын
Errata 1:36: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played the organ in the Thomaskirche but did not work in the aforementioned church.
@charlesseymour14824 жыл бұрын
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.
@jonnuanez71832 жыл бұрын
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
@sophiatalksmusic35884 жыл бұрын
Thank you for finally covering music history; I’ve been waiting so long for this!!!
@SphericalHang4 жыл бұрын
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.
@philipaddyman74024 жыл бұрын
Baudelaire was also in awe of Wagner and wrote an essay, "Richard Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris", published 1861.
@ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын
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
@timetraveltvniles76504 жыл бұрын
We need more Biographics on composers 🎼🎹🎺🎻
@vividedwards89094 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@malcolmthorne97794 жыл бұрын
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.
@iryna94833 жыл бұрын
🤘
@hannesnaumann7101 Жыл бұрын
Joey de Maio
@patrickwells40144 жыл бұрын
I shed my first sincere tears when I heard a performance of Tristan und Isolde
@Trafalgaarr4 жыл бұрын
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.
@olerocker34704 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.
@LeglessWonder4 жыл бұрын
Now you get everyone humming Wagner terribly off key 😂
@charlesseymour14824 жыл бұрын
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 KZbin is only a legend. Simon, you are a legend!
@hanglee55864 жыл бұрын
Can you do one on the Superman, Richard Strauss? I saw Thus Spoke Zarathustra at the Boston Symphony Hall back in the 1990s.
@geneklee76084 жыл бұрын
Although Richard Strauss’ music was great, he was not a very interesting person and didn’t have a very interesting life.
@anthonylewis20804 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.
@maxheadrom30884 жыл бұрын
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!
@shebbs14 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.
@Caseds4 жыл бұрын
Anyone besides me noticed that Wagner's 15 hour opera sounds like Lord of the Rings
@lapamful4 жыл бұрын
All the big name movies had their themes pinched from various great composers.
@Akuryoutaisan214 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,
@TrumpetDude2244 жыл бұрын
You mean Lord of the Rings sounds like Wagner’s 15 hour opera.
@shebbs14 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..
@paulheap19824 жыл бұрын
@@lapamful he means the story, not the music.
@t.34654 жыл бұрын
Can we get a biography on Simon whistler
@bratman824 жыл бұрын
Can we get a biographic on Simon's beard?
@maximilianolimamoreira50024 жыл бұрын
@@bratman82 massive,glorious and beautifully made.😄
@Samm8154 жыл бұрын
No? But if you want to hear some stories from his youth go watch Business Blaze. Simon lets his (nonexistent) hair down.
@jasonosullivan91764 жыл бұрын
Since you love WW2, Cold War, and classical composers, please consider Dimitri Shostakovich.
@MinionofNobody4 жыл бұрын
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.
@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.4 жыл бұрын
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.
@jmchez2 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.
@jeans15154 жыл бұрын
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.
@theConquerersMama2 жыл бұрын
As they should.
@jeans15152 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.
@CaliforniaBushman4 жыл бұрын
Whenever I listen to Wagner, I get the urge to conquer Poland.
@Tubomiro4 жыл бұрын
Lol 😂
@maximilianolimamoreira50024 жыл бұрын
ah,come on,guys,not cool.
@magivkmeister61664 жыл бұрын
Poland, the most invaded country in europe😂
@TheLisandro19874 жыл бұрын
Lol
@seanbrazell61474 жыл бұрын
It does that.
@lerigan4 жыл бұрын
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.
@DefneDance4 жыл бұрын
I laughed way too hard at the Pringle joke
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
Would you like a crisp?
@lapamful4 жыл бұрын
"I can't listen to too much Wagner, after a while I begin to get the urge to invade Poland." - Woody Allen
@myanrueller914 жыл бұрын
"I can't watch too many Woody Allen movies, after a while I begin to get the urge to sexually harass women." - Me. Just now.
@Sorcerers_Apprentice4 жыл бұрын
My Woody Allen impression - "I'm a neurotic nerd, who is into little girls."
@josephdadey4 жыл бұрын
Woody Allen is another fine example of an inconvenient genius like Wagner. IF you can separate the art from the artist, both are masters of their realm.
@MrGksarathy4 жыл бұрын
@@josephdadey Considering how much of Woody Allen's art reflects his own psyche, I can't separate them too much.
@josephdadey4 жыл бұрын
@@MrGksarathy Indeed, I can't blame anyone for not being able to separate them. Particularly a movie like "Manhattan".
@samuelterry63544 жыл бұрын
There's a lot of nonsense written about Wagner.
@rami_ungar_writer4 жыл бұрын
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
@HarryFlashmanVC2 жыл бұрын
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.
@rhov-anion4 жыл бұрын
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).
@roderickwhitehead4 жыл бұрын
This is probably the most "makes you think" comment for this video.
@katiewinchester37574 жыл бұрын
Which other composers were antisemitic? I barely know anything about classical music, composers, and the like, and I'm genuinely curious!
@rhov-anion4 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).
@juancasinisterra4 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.o4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a good professor
@benjaminanderson87174 жыл бұрын
Love the longer form video, but you had me dying at the Pringle joke! Bravo!
@alexanderveritas3 жыл бұрын
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._
@Robbi4964 жыл бұрын
Minor correction, the city in known as Buy Royt not Bay Rooth
@valerietaylor9615 Жыл бұрын
That’s right. Beirut is in Lebanon ( where Fafner’s neck in the original production ended up.)
@rachellabovitch12804 жыл бұрын
Finally a classical composer! Thank you Biographics.
@anthonylewis20804 жыл бұрын
Regardless of Wilhelm Richard Wagner's questionable views, in my view he's no less than a brilliant composer.
@TechSupport9004 жыл бұрын
The beard is more elegant than ever, just about to over take rasputin and claim the best beard of 2020!
@geekbeer58464 жыл бұрын
I didn't know Rasputin was still one of the contenders for 2020... 😂😂
@TechSupport9004 жыл бұрын
In my books you can be alive or dead, he is still behind Santa Denmark leader, Christian IX and Franz-Josef
@cpegg58404 жыл бұрын
You Habsburgs are good at growing beards too; you have to cover up the incest features 😂
@jtb67374 жыл бұрын
the beard is definitely epic
@stevenwebb36344 жыл бұрын
What about Ned Kelly?
@andrewhalter8764 жыл бұрын
I'd like to request that you guys do Peter Sellers or Immanuel Kant please, thanks!
@geneklee76084 жыл бұрын
How about “The Influence of Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy on the Work of Peter Sellers”?
@geneklee76084 жыл бұрын
Descartes’ life was far more interesting than Kant’s.
@joshreichardt24854 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.
@andrewhalter8764 жыл бұрын
@@geneklee7608 Sure, do Descartes too, then I'd understand
@valerietaylor9615 Жыл 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.
@Kevin-vr4ds3 жыл бұрын
I’ve played so many of this dudes pieces back in high school and as a trombone player I had TONS of fun
@bronwynecg4 жыл бұрын
I’m beginning to think Simon’s beard needs its own channel now 🤣🤣
@thegurem4 жыл бұрын
BeardoGraphics? Business Beard? BeardBlaze
@robinhumphrey26924 жыл бұрын
Well done!!! Keep up with the composer bios!! These are wonderful!!!!
@histman31332 жыл бұрын
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 KZbin. Very beautiful.
@gabedepaul54072 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your content! Only seen a few of your videos but they are thorough and cover topics that need a keen eye
@tudorbaltoiu76854 жыл бұрын
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?
@lacanian15004 жыл бұрын
tristan und isolde is a masterpiece, wagner is a genius. but i really have to separate the art from the artist when it comes to wagner
@Viroh4 жыл бұрын
Was*
@joellaz98364 жыл бұрын
Justin Ospinal Ironically there’s a letter by Wagner where he talks about how one shouldn’t seperate the art from the person.
@Mrbrbusby4 жыл бұрын
John Coltrane is a Genius. Richard Wagner is a disgusting racist bigot who shall ever bow to the superiority of France. 🇫🇷
@Caterfree104 жыл бұрын
Agreed. At least his work is public domain so I don’t have to worry about lining his or his estate’s coffers when listening to his works.
@cwg92384 жыл бұрын
virtue signal harder.
@CooperAATE4 жыл бұрын
Musician here; composer's block is REAL
@thomaslucia30594 жыл бұрын
Bayreuth = "BYE-roit"
@javiergilvidal15584 жыл бұрын
Yeah, very annoying how he pronounces the name of the town. Makes you think Wagner worked in Lebanon!
@fbcpraise4 ай бұрын
Tahn-HOI-zer
@Mozzthecoolguy4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Simon, can you also do Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
@jamesrharris18724 жыл бұрын
Great video! Wagner was the favorite composer of John Philip Sousa.
@geneklee76084 жыл бұрын
Yes, whenever I hear Sousa I want to invade Cuba and the Philippines. 😏
@slav14674 жыл бұрын
@@geneklee7608 I just want to open a can of good ol' fashioned America liberation whenever I hear Sousa.
@valerietaylor9615 Жыл бұрын
I didn’t know that.
@kizW294 жыл бұрын
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
@imperatorcaesaraugustus95542 жыл бұрын
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.
@curiousworld79124 жыл бұрын
I've been a Wagner fan for a long time, and have collected many books and even some original photos, drawings and one tiny painting on ivory. I also collect Ludwig II books, pictures, etc., as any ruler who loved Wagner and bankrupted a country for art, is fine by me. :) That being said; as much as I love the music, Wagner was not a person I would have liked to depend upon - although I'll bet he was great at parties. :) (I also heartily despise his antisemitism.)
@anthonylewis20804 жыл бұрын
Same here : despite the questionable views of Wagner (Hitler's favourite composer - no surprise there) I still think his output by means of his compositions, is no less than influential, so much, it exists on to this day.
@paulherzog96054 жыл бұрын
Heard that Herman Goring was the life of the partied too
@theConquerersMama2 жыл бұрын
Same
@valerietaylor9615 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think Wagner would have been much fun at a party. The critic Deems Taylor said, “ An evening with Wagner, was an evening spent listening to a monologue.”
@curiousworld7912 Жыл бұрын
@@valerietaylor9615 Yes, I've read Taylor's work. But, I'm willing to bet, considering how accommodating Wagner's wealthy and highly-placed investors and/or supporters could be, that he was entertaining at gatherings. And, I'm sure some of his monologues both shocked and amused the guests. Just my opinion. :)
@wigs6664 жыл бұрын
Ah! Excellent work! If you're going to do some more classical composers, Beethoven would be a great place to start!
@ryansutter42914 жыл бұрын
I cant even, this made my life on so many levels. I been askin'. Thank You! Bravo! Well done!!!
@ryansutter42914 жыл бұрын
I studied him at University, thanks...Maybe you, you're gonna have to actually read a book.
@macaodh43484 жыл бұрын
"Wagner's music is not half as bad as it sounds".Mark Twain.
@fademusic19804 жыл бұрын
The fact that they coexisted blows my mind
@peterwindhorst57754 жыл бұрын
@@fademusic1980 How about Mark Twain being friends with Nokola Tesla.
@fademusic19804 жыл бұрын
@@peterwindhorst5775 poor tesla, theft isnt a strong enough word
@LeglessWonder4 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
@goodchessactor4 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл 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.
@bratman824 жыл бұрын
I swear that beard grows more epic with every video.
@NotTheNine4 жыл бұрын
Love composers, would love more!
@anthonylewis20804 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.
@d.c.88284 жыл бұрын
Please do Biographics episodes on Scott Joplin, Ella Fitzgerald, and Cab Calloway!
@d.c.88284 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.
@bigmanpigman4 жыл бұрын
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.
@gostavoadolfos20234 жыл бұрын
Without king Ludwig 2nd his life would ve taken a tragic path of failure.
@javiergtz66823 жыл бұрын
EXCELLENT BIO!! way superior to any other I've seen on youtube. Subscribed!
@thegurem4 жыл бұрын
I saw siegried live, about 6 hours of heavy opera. Sadly without acting. My gf was fast asleep after about 40 minuts
@javiergilvidal15584 жыл бұрын
Change your girlfriend!
@thegurem4 жыл бұрын
@@javiergilvidal1558 i did
@javiergilvidal15584 жыл бұрын
@@thegurem Good!
@scruffycavetroll75474 жыл бұрын
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
@puppetguy87264 жыл бұрын
Simon, I think you should permanently name your space heater "the squarspace space heater for heating square spaces sponsored by squarspace"
@rafmonkey964 жыл бұрын
Can I ask why you haven't made a video on Bach yet?
@geneklee76084 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.
@LeglessWonder4 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 Жыл 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.
@jeffwatkins3524 жыл бұрын
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.
@jmchez2 жыл бұрын
I kept waiting for the most orgasmic and apotheotic piece of music ever written, The Liebestod.
@CliveEuler74 жыл бұрын
I like the new start in classical guys, do you have a video about beethoven
@thatguyyoudontknow29624 жыл бұрын
I think I'm asking the impossible here, but will you be interested in doing one about Carlos Gardel? He's, literally, the face of tango.
@pavlelazarevic32702 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest and most interesting figures in classical music. Great video
@mammuchan89234 жыл бұрын
27:40 The neck ended up in Beirut, this is the best part of the whole story🤣🤣
@sandybarnes8874 жыл бұрын
Bayreuth
@mammuchan89234 жыл бұрын
@@sandybarnes887 almost positive he says “Beirut”, his delivery is just so brilliantly deadpan, I missed it at first
@ItsMe-ib1xt4 жыл бұрын
Richard Wagner looks a lot like Stephen Fry...or Stephen Fry looks like Richard Wagner, either one
@mussoletart84854 жыл бұрын
Stephen Fry did an interesting documentary about him, 'Wagner & Me', about liking his music while being of Jewish descent.
@yumyumwhatzohai4 жыл бұрын
I don't know if you know, but Stephen Fry is a huge Wagnerian, he even did a documentary about it.
@LS-oq3qh3 жыл бұрын
Everytime i hear "Konigsberg, modern day Kaliningrad", i can't help myself crying and cursing Hitler and his army of doom. What a beautiful city it was and how easily the humanity lost it! It took so much to build this pearl in the baltics and it just needed one bad decision to turn it into the ashes.
@simonoxley20194 жыл бұрын
Great score for an Apocalypse, now and then
@SAVAGE-oe3fg4 жыл бұрын
Can you please make a video about Cecil John Rhoades,Paul Kruger and Piet Retief
@thegurem4 жыл бұрын
Second that! Rhoades!
@henriqueoliveira38724 жыл бұрын
Yeaah! Nice one! Love it. You should do salazar of portugal.
@maximilianolimamoreira50024 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.
@mrs.wolfengrave87864 жыл бұрын
Can you guys do a bio on Margaret Thatcher? I always wanted to learn about her!
@anushjoseph68874 жыл бұрын
Simon could you make a video on the life on Joachim Von Ribbentrop - The Foreign Minister for Nazi Germany
@Maderyne4 жыл бұрын
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!
@FunFilmFare3 жыл бұрын
In a way, Richard Wagner was like the Stan Lee of his time. Both made massive franchise series based on Norse mythology!
@melz2662 жыл бұрын
Wagner would be offended, as Lee was of Jewish decent...
@FunFilmFare2 жыл бұрын
@@melz266 True. For similar reasons I think Wagner would also hate Taika Waititi -- who's also Jewish, depicts the Norse myths in a more light-hearted way , and made fun of German nationalism in "Jojo Rabbit"
@specialperson335 Жыл бұрын
Wagner pioneered the concept which Stan Lee's life work is based on.
@Tolstoy111 Жыл бұрын
@@melz266Wagner used scenarios by the Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. He worked with Jews all of his life.