Rienzi hymns, processions and the musical clash of arms". Cosima Wagner recorded Wagner's comment in her diary for 20 June 1871: "Rienzi" is very repugnant to me, but they should at least recognize the fire in it; I was a music director and I wrote a grand opera; the fact that it was this same music director who gave them some hard nuts to crack – that's what should astonish them. Thus the work has remained outside today's Wagner canon, and was only performed at the Bayreuth Festival in 2013, staged by Matthias von Stegmann. Although the composer disclaimed it, it
Symphonic Shades – Hülsbeck in Concert San Francisco, he wrote an open letter thanking the fans as well as the WDR and Merregnon Studios for all the support, noting the concert exceeded all his expectations and that he would be eternally grateful for the tribute. On 4 August 2009, eight pieces of "Symphonic Shades" were performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the concert "Sinfonia Drammatica" in the Stockholm Concert Hall, along with titles of "drammatica" by Yoko Shimomura, uniquely combining works of a single Japanese and Western game music composer in one concert. For this occasion, Jonne Valtonen slightly revised his version of the