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Vinzenz Lachner (19 July 1811 – 22 January 1893) was a German composer and conductor.
Pick Your Battles
Instinctively conservative in his tastes, Lachner stood out publicly against the cult of Richard Wagner. Wagner campaigned for Vinzenz Lachner to be retired. (Vinzenz, to Wagner's rage, had conducted Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman in a mutilated version.) – Wikipedia
Vinzenz Lachner, Brahms’s friend,
Whose outlook was regressive,
Made changes in the Dutchman score
Which Wagner thought excessive.
Lachner fought with tooth and nail
Against the Wagner cult,
So Richard Wagner ruined his career, —-
A regrettable result.
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