I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

Wagner then sent him to Vienna to stage Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (the last two Ring dramas) there. 9 "From the New World" which greatly influenced the direction of American classical music. He also had a significant role in the genesis of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Suite.