8 letters found

1. 590 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 30 March 1888.

   in translation:

   ...d harmony. And something happens like with the Wagner music which, performed by a large orchestra, is...

   in note 9:

   Richard Wagner composed large-scale, ambitious operas for big orchestras. Van Gogh had been to perfor...

2. 621 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 5 or Wednesday, 6 June 1888.

   in translation:

   I’m reading a book about Wagner which I’ll send you afterwards — what an artist — one like th...

   in note 7:

   ...7. Benoit wrote a 64-page study which precedes Wagner’s writings in this book. Cf. letter 686, n. 1...

3. 622 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1888.

   in note 3:

   ...Blanc. See letter 537, n. 7. His reading about Wagner may well also have influenced his choice of wor...

   in note 1:

   ...d have been thinking first and foremost of Richard Wagner; he was in the middle of reading a book abo...

4. 635 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 July 1888.

   in translation:

   ...hat he balanced, certainly overtaxed his brain doing that work, as did Delacroix and Richard Wagner.

5. 683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.

   in translation:

   ...e connections there are between our colour and Wagner’s music. Now it’s true, I see in Impression...

6. 686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.

   in translation:

   I’ve read an article on Wagner — L’amour dans la musique, by the same author who wrote the book...

   in note 19:

   ...er and others (on pp. 332-339). The book about Wagner, Richard Wagner, musiciens, poètes et philosop...

7. 739 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Monday, 21 January 1889.

   in translation:

   ...make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us... a consolatory art for dis...

   in note 8:

   ...n Dutch literature, and was also known through Wagner’s opera Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying ...

   in note 6:

   The fact that Van Gogh mentions Berlioz and Wagner in the same sentence could be connected with the b...

8. 743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.

   in note 23:

   Regarding Berlioz and Wagner, see letter 739, n. 6.

   in translation:

   ...e antidote exist? In Delacroix, in Berlioz and Wagner? And really, our artistic madness which all the...

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