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> For me Wagner is an absolute example in regards to the 'Gesamtkunstwerks' / the total work of art: language, music, stage-sets...

Also the idea of the Leitmotiv, establishing melodies, drop them, bringing them back in variations over long stretches of times - that's Wagner.

Though I have done that on my own, I discovered later on that I was with him yet again. <

Klaus Schulze