Richard Wagner: the inventor of "Wagnerian"
Posted by David Hepworth on 22 May 2008 - 9:01am.
Richard Wagner was born on this day in 1813. He's one of the handful of musicians who have given birth to their own adjective. "Wagnerian" is used to describe anything massive and full of foreboding. Like this...
Anyway, which other musicians and composers have spawned their own adjective? And I'm not counting cases where people just put "-esque" on the end of their names and hope it'll fly.
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Brechtian
is the one that springs immediately to mind.
Dunno
Not strictly musical, is it? Tends to be applied to his theatrical style.
Fair do's.
Rather the music for his songs is "Weillian", if there is such a thing!
Alarmingly
there are examples of the use of "Morriseyan". Evidently, some people have no imagination, or at least no access to a dictionary. The same effect could be achieved with the word "maudlin", for example, or perhaps "mundane".
Bryan's legacy
Ferryisms - doesn't quite make it to adjectival level but other artists are often accused of "these". Stand up Mr. D. Sylvian.
Dylanesque
I know it breaks the rule but it occurs to me it originated with Dylanesque and so it should count.
Who the heck was Arab, then
and have you got any of his CDs? What does he sound like?
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Nice
A Dylanesque Ferryism.
hepworthian....?
school of music writing.
part yorkshire richard wilson, part wide-eyed technophile, part widely-read inner librarian, part natural raconteur. partly not taking things too seriously whilst clearly loving them dearly.