A report on Richard Wagner
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").
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Bayreuth Festival
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The Bayreuth Festival (Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented.
Tristan und Isolde
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Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg.
Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer of Jewish birth, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner".
Franz Liszt
21 linksHungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romantic era.
Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romantic era.
He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ("The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner.
Parsifal
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Parsifal (WWV 111) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with the libretto by the composer himself loosely based on the 13th-century Middle High German epic poem Parzival of the Minnesänger Wolfram von Eschenbach, recounting the story of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail.
Cosima Wagner
18 linksThe daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German romantic author Marie d'Agoult.
The daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German romantic author Marie d'Agoult.
She became the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner, and with him founded the Bayreuth Festival as a showcase for his stage works; after his death she devoted the rest of her life to the promotion of his music and philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
17 linksGerman philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history.
German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history.
His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, religion, tragedy, culture, and science, and drew inspiration from Greek tragedy as well as figures such as Zoroaster, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Carl Maria von Weber
10 linksGerman composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era.
German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era.
1820–21), Euryanthe (1823), Oberon (1826)—had a major impact on subsequent German composers including Marschner, Meyerbeer, and Wagner; his compositions for piano influenced those of Chopin and Liszt.