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Oct 2, 2020 · The Richard Wagner Monument in Berlin (iStock) “This is a book about a musician’s influence on non-musicians,” Alex Ross says. That’s good, because I am a non-musician. Ross is the premier ...
ARTS & CULTURE. The Brilliant, Troubled Legacy of Richard Wagner. As the faithful flock to the Bayreuth Festival in his bicentennial year, the spellbinding German composer continues to fascinate,...
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( / ˈvɑːɡnər / VAHG-nər; [1] [2] German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner ...
- 22 May 1813, Leipzig
- List of compositions
- 13 February 1883 (aged 69), Venice
- Wagner’s First Creative Work – Leubald
- Fused Drama with Music in Opera
- The Symphony in C Major (1832) and Other Early Works by Richard Wagner
- He Composed His First Complete Opera at The Age of 20
- Das Liebesverbot
- Rienzi – Wagner’s Third Opera
- Der Fliegende Holländer
- Tannhäuser
- Wagner’s Influence on Other Disciplines
- Advanced The Concept of The Gesamtkunstwerk
With ambitions of being a playwright, Wagner was also influenced by the works of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616), German poet and dramatist Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), and German poet and theater director Johann Wolfgang van Goethe (1749-1832). Written around 1827, the Leubald, a tragic drama in the Shakespearean ge...
After the German operatic soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, Wagner set about to work on blending drama and music in opera. Schröder-Devrient’s performance, which Wagner described as a “profoundly human and ecstatic performance”, ignited in the young mind of Wagner a kind of determination that he described as “almost demonic fire”.
The Symphony in C major, which comes in four movements, is the only completed symphony of Richard Wagner. He used about a month and a half to compose the symphony, which was greatly influenced by symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven. Wagner also took a bit of inspiration from Weber’s style. In November 1832, the symphony was performed at the Prague c...
In 1833, with the aid of his brother Albert, he became a choirmaster at the theatre in Würzburg (presently in the north of the German state of Bavaria). Wagner composed Die Feen(The Fairies) during his time as a choirmaster at the theatre in Würzburg (presently in the north of the German state of Bavaria). It is a German Romantic opera based on the...
In 1834, he worked for a short time as the musical director at an opera house in Magedburg (presently in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt). During this time he wrote Das Liebesverbot, a comic opera in two acts based on William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. It premiered on March 29, 1936 at the Stadttheater Magdeburg. Due to the financial stru...
Bedeviled by mounting debt, Wagner and his wife Minna settled in Paris, France, between 1839 and 1842. It was during this time that completed two operas of his – Reinzi and Der fliegende Holländer, his third and fourth operas respectively. Rienzi comes in five acts. The libretto of Rienzi was written by Wagner himself. It was based on the English w...
Similar to Rienzi, Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) premiered in Dresden at at the Königliches Hoftheater (Royal Court Theatre). It premiered on January 2, 1843. Inspiration to write the opera, whose central theme is love, came when he was fleeing Riga to Paris via London with his wife, who suffered a msicarriage. He then based the sto...
Tannhäuser – full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, “Tannhäuser and the Minnesängers’ Contest at Wartburg”) : an 1845 opera whose music and text were composed by Richard Wagner. The opera, which was influenced by German legend Tannhäuser, contains theme of sacred love and redemption. Tannhäuser’s music and text were written by Wagn...
Richard Wagner’s stage works and essays had influence beyond music; they influenced philosophy, literature, drama, visual arts, and even politics. In Friedrich Nietzsche’s the Birth of Tragedy, the famous German philosopher described many of Wagner’s operas as a Dionysian “rebirth” of European culture. Nietzsche praised Wagner’s style for how it we...
The music dramas that Wagner wrote in his latter musical career are regarded by many as his greatest masterpieces, especially Der Ring des Nibelungen (also known as the Ring or Ring cycle). Wagner heavily applied his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, commonly referred to as “total work of art”. By using a technique known as Gesamtkunstwerk –“total wo...
May 22, 2018 · By David Salazar. 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.
Mar 2, 2022 · You might think of Richard Wagner as the composer of gods and myths, of the end of the world and a love that destroys — and you would be right.
This image appears in the gallery:Wagner: 15 facts about the great composer. 1. Wagner is Born! Wilhelm Richard Wagner came into the world on May 22nd 1813, in the Jewish quarter of Leipzig. 15 images. See the full gallery: Wagner: 15 facts about the great composer.
