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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 ...
- Wagner (Disambiguation)
Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was a German composer. Wagner may...
- List of Compositions by Richard Wagner
Sources. Deathridge J., Geck M. and Voss E. (1986). Wagner...
- May Uprising in Dresden
Richard Wagner the composer, at the time Royal Saxon Court...
- Wagner Family
This category is for the family and relatives of the...
- Nibelung
Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen was...
- The Foundations of The Nineteenth Century
The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen...
- Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Aerial view of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. The Bayreuth...
- Gesamtkunstwerk
Background. The term was developed by the German writer and...
- Tristan Und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is an opera...
- Wagner (Disambiguation)
Front page of the Dresden score of Wagner's 1845 opera Tannhäuser. Richard Wagner 's works for the stage, representing more than 50 years of creative life, comprise his 13 completed operas and a similar number of failed or abandoned projects. His first effort, begun when he was 13, was a prose drama, Leubald, but thereafter all his works were ...
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 in Leipzig – 13 February 1883 in Venice) was a German opera composer. He was one of the most important opera composers in Germany during the Romantic period. Apart from some music that he wrote as a student he wrote ten operas which are all performed regularly in opera houses today.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through ...
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 ...
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- 26 July 1882, Bayreuth Festspielhaus
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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Richard Wagner . Richard Wagner, (born May 22, 1813, Leipzig, Ger.—died Feb. 13, 1883, Venice, Italy), German composer. His childhood was divided between Dresden and Leipzig, where he had his first composition lessons; his teacher refused payment ...
Aug 12, 2020 · In a century of revolution, Wagner was himself a revolutionary of a special kind. Intoxicated by his ideal of ancient Greece, he placed music and theatre at the centre of an aspiration to remake ...