Judas Priest - Deal With The Devil

In Magdeburg, Wagner ventured to finally begin to control opera performances and implement his own ideas. By that time, he recognized himself not just as a composer, but as an opera composer. He writes in his memoirs: “At the same time (end of 1834. - M. Z.) I sketched a musical concept, namely the E-dur symphony, the first part of which (size ¾) as a composition was already completed. The Beethoven’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies influenced the style and plan of this work, and as far as I remember, I would have nothing to blush for the quality of this work if I had finished it or at least kept what was ready. But already around this time a conviction developed within me that it was impossible to do anything new and significant in the field of symphony after Beethoven. On the contrary, opera,where there was no prototype at my service - I felt it deeper and deeper - it acted on me as a certain form of art in an exciting way in many directions (italics ours. - M. Z.). "