[DOC] [TLE] Richard Wagner - Famous Quotes and Quotations - Music With Ease [PAR] I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Mark Twain, 
Autobiography (1924) ... Richard Strauss, German composer (1864-1949), 
writing of Wagner's opera ... o'clock and after it has been going three hours you 
look at your watch and it says 6.20. -- David Randolph on Wagner's opera 
Parzifal (Parsifal) [DOC] [TLE] Richard Wagner - Wikiquote [PAR] His pugnacious personality and often outspoken views on music, politics and ... 
and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. 
..... The late Bill Nye once said, 'I been told that Wagner's music is better than it 
sounds. Mark Twain, The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When, p. 
238... [DOC] [TLE] Humorous Musical Quotes [PAR] "Richard Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain. "A drummer is a 
musician's best friend." from a Martin Mull album. "The present day composer... [DOC] [TLE] Wagner in a nutshell - 52 Composers [PAR] An entertaining and informative profile of the German composer Richard ... Isolde
; Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nurnberg); Parsifal ... "
Richard Wagner: A composer whose music is better than it sounds (Mark Twain). [DOC] [TLE] Jon-Erik Kellso - Wagner's music is better than it sounds.... | Facebook [PAR] Mark Twain *** I don't know anything about music. ... Parsifal is the kind of opera 
that starts at six o'clock and after it has been running for three hours, you check... [DOC] [TLE] Parsifal | The Well-Tempered Ear [PAR] This year is the bicentennial of the birth of composer Richard Wagner. ... and 
humorist Mark Twain observed that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. .... 
He never shows a sense of strain or exaggeration, which you cannot say of many
... [DOC] [TLE] Ronald Bergen on Wagner in film | Books | The Guardian [PAR] Oct 6, 2007 ... But how well has film served this most cinematic of composers, asks Ronald 
Bergen. ... But, as Mark Twain once quipped, "Wagner's music is better than it 
sounds. ... While demystifying Wagner's work, Parsifal (1982) also presents it as 
an ... unlike the more monomorphic view of, say, Beethoven or Verdi,... [DOC] [TLE] Anything But Wagner | Neil Kurtzman [PAR] Oct 5, 2009 ... No great composer induces passion the way Richard Wagner does. ... Or as Mark 
Twain (Bill Nye might have said it first) said, Wagner's music is better than it 
sounds. .... And if that isn't bad enough your spouse will either drag you to 
Parsifal at the drop of a grace note or worse disappear for weeks on end... [DOC] [TLE] Harpsichordist Scott Ross once said of Glenn Gould: "I say he ... [PAR] Jul 22, 2013 ... Mark Twain wrote a whole essay of witty quasi-Wagner-bashing. The entire 
overture ... "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." -- Mark Twain. [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain title lawyer whose adages also appear in Following The ... [PAR] Jul 7, 2016 ... video icon  Mark Twain said this Parsifal composer's music is better than it 
sounds # Quiz # Question. 0:29. FirstAmVideo. No views... [DOC] [TLE] Richard WagnerChoral Music: Lohengrin | The Choral Singer's ... [PAR] Passionate about music, and especially opera, from an early age, Wagner ... He 
probably wins the prize for the composer who wrote the most prose works as well
. ... Ensembles and choruses, unnatural to drama (unlike, say, singing), will have 
no .... a dawn (Debussy); Wagner's music is better than it sounds (Mark Twain). [DOC] [TLE] Richard Wagner's Music Is Effectively Banned in Israel  Tablet ... [PAR] Aug 17, 2011 ... Mark Twain quipped that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. ... In 
Barenboim's view, Israel should embrace the composer

Question: Mark Twain said this "Parsifal" composer's music "is better than it sounds"
Answer: Richard Wagner