Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time.
Wagner\'s Essays on conducting had an even longer impact, and were upheld as central to their art by later generations of conductors from Mahler to Strauss, Furtw ngler, B hm, Scherchen, and beyond..
Through his disciples Hans von B low, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch, and their many notable prot g s, a Wagnerian art of interpretation became the norm in Europe and America until well into the twentieth century.
Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time