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The 73 pages that link to Richard Wagner, each with the reason it gives.

• Igor StravinskyCompared with: Stravinsky resisted Wagnerian ideals of continuous musical development and expressive grandeur.

• Johannes BrahmsCompared with: Wagner’s circle became the chief aesthetic rival to Brahms’s classical orientation.

• Hector BerliozCompared with: Wagner and Berlioz pursued different approaches to music drama and orchestral expression.

• Felix MendelssohnCompared with: Wagner’s polemics and operatic innovations opposed Mendelssohn’s musical ideals and legacy.

• Camille Saint-SaënsCompared with: Saint-Saëns criticized Wagnerian influence even as he engaged with Wagner’s musical ideas.

• Eduard HanslickCompared with: Wagner’s aesthetic writings and music became major targets of Hanslick’s criticism.

• Joseph JoachimCompared with: Wagner’s influence became a flashpoint in the musical dispute that divided Joachim and Brahms’s allies.

• Arrigo BoitoCompared with: Wagner’s influence sharpened Boito’s critiques of Italian opera and its conventions.

• Giacomo MeyerbeerCompared with: Wagner attacked Meyerbeer publicly despite earlier professional connections and influence.

• Les SixCompared with: Cocteau’s anti-Wagnerian rhetoric made Wagner a symbolic target for the group’s French modernism.

• Vincenzo BelliniCompared with: Wagner praised Bellini’s melodic gift despite pursuing a sharply different operatic ideal.

• Bedřich SmetanaCompared with: Smetana absorbed Wagnerian techniques while pursuing a distinct Czech operatic tradition.

• Entartete MusikCompared with: The regime celebrated Wagner while condemning Jewish and modernist composers.

• Charles GounodCompared with: Wagner’s music drama offers a contrasting model to Gounod’s emphasis on melody and French theatrical clarity.

• Expressionist musicCompared with: Wagner’s expanding chromaticism helped lead toward the tonal instability later intensified by expressionists.