Incubus - Nebula

It is enough to add that even the opera genre itself - the main one in Wagner's work - despite numerous sketches and plans, List did not submit. “Liszt,” notes Milshtein, “... was relentlessly striving to create instrumental program music (and this was his main goal); even the oratorios that Wagner, based on the aesthetic principles of his musical drama, once called "sexless opera embryos", Liszt considered as works, primarily deepening and expanding the symphonic program. The genre of the opera lay away from this main road ... Moreover, in the very warehouse of his talent, he was not an opera composer, like, say, his friend Wagner. According to Liszt, the conventions of the opera scene bind the composer's imagination, depriving it of “the magic of perspective,” “the game of partial shade,” and the freedom of psychological experience. ”