Corrosion Of Conformity - Broken Man

In September, Wagner made his first trip to Italy, so to speak, "a test of the pen", before really imbued with the charm of this country. A peculiar mystical experience can be considered one characteristic episode of this trip. Staying in La Spezia, Wagner, exhausted by seasickness while moving from Genoa and spending the whole night without sleep, went for a walk through the hilly surroundings covered with cedar trees. Returning to his room, he lay down to rest, but the dream did not come. “I fell into some somnambulistic state: suddenly it seemed to me that I was plunging into rapidly flowing water. Her murmur appeared to me in the form of a musical chord Es-dur. I woke up from my drowsiness with a terrible feeling that the waves closed high above me. I dreamed of an overture of the "Rhine Gold" with which I was worn,not being able to master it completely. I immediately realized what all of this matters to me: the course of life can captivate me only from the inside, and not from the outside. Immediately I decided to return to Zurich and begin to compose a large work. ”