Happy Birthday to the Master Orchestrator of them all...

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Both good works CD but I really do prefer the orchestral version, to me they sound quite thick with the organ not wishing to offend the Organ nuts on MIMF :cheers:
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I picked this up from TC poor old Wagner was a short arse!

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Chi_townPhilly

Sr. Regulator
Sr. Regulator
I picked this up from TC poor old Wagner was a short arse!
Well, maybe not so much- at least not in context, anyway...
As a man he was not tall, but neither was he the dwarf he is sometimes made out to be: his Swiss passport of 1849 records his height as 5ft 6½in. (1m. 69.16cm). Barry Millington, The Wagner Compendium
By 19th Century Continental European standards, he wasn't too far away from male average.

In fact, the BOLO (be-on-the-lookout) notice concerning his status as a fugitive in the Dresden insurrection cited 'average' height. It is said that his then-wife Minna was relieved that the would-be details were so non-descript. ["could be anybody- thank God" was the (possibly apocryphal) declamation she is purported to have uttered.]

I hypothesize that the 5'5" figure for Wagner is a "time-of-death" statistic. [Height of course decreases with age, due primarily to disc compression- although other factors are involved, as well.] Random musing- how many people would have figured that Wagner was 3-4 inches taller than Beethoven?!
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Well, maybe not so much- at least not in context, anyway...By 19th Century Continental European standards, he wasn't too far away from male average.

In fact, the BOLO (be-on-the-lookout) notice concerning his status as a fugitive in the Dresden insurrection cited 'average' height. It is said that his then-wife Minna was relieved that the would-be details were so non-descript. ["could be anybody- thank God" was the (possibly apocryphal) declamation she is purported to have uttered.]

I hypothesize that the 5'5" figure for Wagner is a "time-of-death" statistic. [Height of course decreases with age, due primarily to disc compression- although other factors are involved, as well.] Random musing- how many people would have figured that Wagner was 3-4 inches taller than Beethoven?!

OK OK OK I wish I hadn't mentioned it now :shake:
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