Flying Dutchman — Ouverture

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I hate to say, I find Wagner repetitive and boring. Surely, I must be missing some faculty available to the many fans of his music. Wagner's compositions make me think of old feature films, the kind that may be spinning an entertaining story while never feeling entirely realistic as far as the visual experience goes, with the music eagerly prompting the feelings one is supposed to be gripped by. 

Either Wagner makes me sleepy or he irritates me by bursts of noise that are too sudden or overly lengthy.

Here is the overture to the Flying Dutchman — it does not manage to divorce me from my prejudice. It rather makes me feel like listening to corny film music without the benefit of actually watching the movie.

In a word, Wagner sounds hackneyed.