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The train crash trajectory of 1890s Germany... like OUCH!! y'all...
"Drawing on his German predecessors from Winckelmann to Romanticism, who had seen the perfection of Greek art as expressing the perfection of Greek society, and modern art as the means of educating and transforming modern society, [Wagner] elaborated a theory of opera as the successor to Greek tragedy and the true instrument of social revolution."
— May 08, 2026 07:42PM
"Drawing on his German predecessors from Winckelmann to Romanticism, who had seen the perfection of Greek art as expressing the perfection of Greek society, and modern art as the means of educating and transforming modern society, [Wagner] elaborated a theory of opera as the successor to Greek tragedy and the true instrument of social revolution."

