Richard Wagner was a great 19th century composer of opera and music dramas. His massive "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (which took him twenty-two years to write both text and music, and consists of four long music dramas) has an especially assertive and rugged score in "Die Walkure," the second of the four. There are three "hauptmotivs" (i.e., themes) which come to mind as training music for pugilists. For the lighter divisions, the music of the "Schwert" (i.e., sword); for middleweights, cruiserweights and lightheavyweights, the "Ride of the Walkyries" (with extra trombones, of course) and for heavyweights, "Hunding the Hunter's brutal music." Laugh at classical music, fellas? If fighters could reach a boxing level equivalent to Richard Wagner's revolutionary compositional techniques, they would be unstoppable; too smart, too strong and discliplined. Whoa, it may be coming from Eastern Europe!
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Originally Posted by Raeder
Richard Wagner was a great 19th century composer of opera and music dramas. His massive "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (which took him twenty-two years to write both text and music, and consists of four long music dramas) has an especially assertive and rugged score in "Die Walkure," the second of the four. There are three "hauptmotivs" (i.e., themes) which come to mind as training music for pugilists. For the lighter divisions, the music of the "Schwert" (i.e., sword); for middleweights, cruiserweights and lightheavyweights, the "Ride of the Walkyries" (with extra trombones, of course) and for heavyweights, "Hunding the Hunter's brutal music." Laugh at classical music, fellas? If fighters could reach a boxing level equivalent to Richard Wagner's revolutionary compositional techniques, they would be unstoppable; too smart, too strong and discliplined. Whoa, it may be coming from Eastern Europe!
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