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Wagner was an advocate of Gesamtkunstwerk (Music of the Future - a movement supporting the fusion of music and drama) achieved through the perfect union of text, music and stagecraft.

He brought us into a new style, as Robert Shumann wrote in his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), "[he] was destined to give ideal expression to the times."

As well, Wagner wrote his own operatic librettos, before composing the music. He paid careful attention to language, aiming to integrate text and music, creating what he called "poetic speech."

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