Schopenhauer argued that only instrumental music could express both the full range of human emotions and impressions and the greater truths that lie behind the facade of everyday life” (L40) . A quote from the writings of Schopenhauer: “Instrumental music is completely independent of the phenomenal, that is, conscious, everyday world. It ignores it completely. It is a copy of the will, the great inner truth itself. That is why the effect of instrumental music is much more powerful and penetrating than that of other arts. It expresses the essence behind the appearance. Therefore, the creator of instrumental music reveals the inner truth of the world", according to Greenberg (2009), this philosophy has influenced. Wagner to shape his concepts of both leitmotif and
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