Suicidal Tendencies - No Bullshit

Studying and loving the history and art of Ancient Greece from childhood, Wagner could not help but notice that this culture was able to outgrow the framework of both nationality and time. It was this universality that attracted Wagner to it. But unlike the neoclassicists who only wanted to revive the ideals of Antiquity, Wagner set himself the task unlike the more complex, titanic and to some extent inaccessible to one, even brilliant, person: to create a new art, equal in importance to ancient Greek, on the basis of his native German art. In other words, to raise national art to the rank of universal human.