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May 31, 2016 · 1. 2089. Robert W. Gutman wrote best-selling biographies of Mozart and Wagner. James L. Paulk. Robert W. Gutman, who died on May 13 at the age of 90, was an influential music scholar best known for landmark biographies of two seminal music figures.
May 19, 2016 · By Margalit Fox. May 18, 2016. Robert W. Gutman, whose influential biographies of Wagner and Mozart helped upend popularly held ideas about both composers’ lives, died on Friday in the...
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Sep 6, 2020 · W agner gave his name to a movement that is also a contagious malaise and in surveying a Wagnerised world Alex Ross looks far beyond the composer’s musical legacy. True, the pining dissonance at ...
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Von Bülow was born in Dresden in 1830. Growing up in Dresden, he had the opportunity to hear Wagner’s music and to watch Wagner conduct, and von Bülow fell in love. In 1846 – by which time the 16 year-old von Bülow had developed into a formidable piano virtuoso – he and Wagner began corresponding. Wagner thought highly of his young acolyte, and enc...
In late November of 1863, Wagner decided to visit the von Bülows, who were at the time living in Berlin. While Hans was at work one day, Wagner and Cosima went out for a drive. Years later, in his autobiography, Wagner described the moment that changed their lives: A typical Wagnerian “dramatization”? No doubt. But there is also no doubt that Richa...
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May 22, 2018 · Richard Wagner might just be the greatest composer in opera history. That, of course, depends on how you view the likes of Mozart and Verdi. But Wagner is easily in the top three in any discussion, his works revolutionizing the entire artform. Born on May 22, 1813, Wagner lived a tumultuous life created by his own very unstable personality.
Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) [1] is an American actor of stage, screen, and television. He is known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–1970), Switch (1975–1978), and Hart to Hart (1979–1984). He later had recurring roles on Two and a Half Men (2007–2008) and NCIS (2010–2019).
Sep 16, 2020 · That was hugely influential in the 20th century—C.S. Lewis [author of The Chronicles of Narnia] and J.R.R Tolkien [author of The Lord of the Rings] knew Wagner very well. Later in the 20th ...
