Napalm Death - Polluted Minds

The significance of this episode for the further development of Wagner's personality is usually underestimated. Have few of your first youthful experiences been unsuccessful? However, in this case, we are not just faced with a conflict of tastes. This is a fundamental first conflict of the future creator of musical drama with the philistine philistine audience. This is evidenced by the fact that, despite the rejection of his work by the man whose opinion Wagner most valued at that moment (still not understanding, due to the lack of experience that his sister had a rather mundane and primitive taste), he did not for a minute doubted his talent and the correctness of the chosen path. Subsequently, the tastes of the audience, who loves “pleasant situations”, will not mean anything to Wagner: he will not sink to the level of his listeners, but will try to raise them to his own height. From now on, he will always be right;if the public and critics do not accept his works, then they have not yet risen to them.