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Richard Wagner. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas" as he later came to call them). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their contrapuntal texture, rich ...
Biography. Article abstract: Wagner wrote the librettos and scores of some of the world’s greatest operas, most notably Tristan und Isolde (1859) and the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen (1874 ...
Wagner wrote an autobiography, but his wife Cosima destroyed all the copies she could find after his death. It took Wagner twenty-six years to complete the four operas in his Ring Cycle. While Wagner was in exile for his revolutionary activities, his friend Franz Liszt staged and conducted his opera Lohengrin for him.
Jan 1, 1983 · Richard Wagner: A Biography. by Derek Watson (Author) 4.1 15 ratings. See all formats and editions. Presents an in-depth profile of the controversial German composer Richard Wagner, with a particular focus on his personal life, based on intensive research into the private papers of the Wagner family archives. ISBN-10.
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Nov 21, 2012 · Introduction. Richard Wagner (b. 1813–d. 1883) was one of the most significant composers of the 19th century—or any era for that matter—and, as he would have been the first to point out, much more than that. The Gesamtkunstwerk or “total artwork,” one of his most famous coinages, referred initially to the model of ancient Greek drama ...
Parsifal (WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance Parzival of the Minnesänger Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Old French chivalric romance Perceval ou le Conte du Graal by the 12th-century trouvère Chrétien de Troyes ...
