Looking for Wagner recommendations

Sometimes it's better to not know much, or anything, about a composer before listening to his/her music.

An understanding of Wagner (or anyone) is essential if you are to truly understand his works at a very scholarly level, but not required to enjoy them.

I imagine many of Beethoven's comtemporaries hated his music because they hated him personally. Their loss.

Cheers.

Feel free. To my view, listening to his works for their musical qualities is like reading Mein Kampf to study narrative style, but to each his own.

Boycott Pink Floyd because they sang, and I quote;

Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
There's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me,
Get him up against the wall!
That one looks Jewish!
And that one's a coon!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint,
And another with spots!
If I had my way,
I'd have all of you shot!

In the Flesh- The Wall.

Sheer Class album!

Pink Floyd, through their drug haze, was using satire and irony. The same way The Clash lampooned neo-Nazis in their song The Clampdown or The Jam exposed skinheads in That's Entertainment.

If there were electronic pipelines into everybody's minds, nary would a single soul be free of the sort of things that would turn away or turn off virtually all of us.