Come All You Weary - Thrice

It must be said that Meyerbeer will subsequently be perceived along with Brahms as Wagner's main antipode. Soon, it was this composer who would become the legislator of the Parisian “opera fashion”; it was to him that Wagner would attribute his failures in Paris. But at a time when their names sounded together for the first time, and for the first time, one might say, they ran into the field of opera, Wagner was far from enmity. Moreover, he was practically not familiar with Meyerbeer’s music and could judge it exclusively from other people's words - enthusiastic newspaper reviews, where he was called the “musical innovator” and “genius”.