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Â Richard Wagner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 in Leipzig â€“ February 13, 1883 in Venice) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking symphonic-operas (or "music dramas").
Overall, Richard Wagner is hard not to find anti-Semitic, but had varied religious views over his life and an odd mix of beliefs and friends.
Grave of Richard and Cosima Wagner in the Garden of House Wahnfried

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Â Richard Wagner Archive

Richard Wagner is undoubtedly one of the leading figures of the 19th century.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) who regarded himself as "the most German of men", "the German spirit" is not only known because of his
One of the most famous artists to illustrate Wagner's operas was the noted 19th century German painter Ferdinand Leeke (1859-1925).

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Â Island of Freedom - Richard Wagner

The greatest composer of German opera, Richard Wagner was the youngest of nine children of Friedrich and Johanna Wagner.
Although Wagner's early training was slight by the standards of most major composers, he had an uncanny ability to copy the various styles he encountered in the music of his time.
Hitler appropriated Wagner's music, using it as a soundtrack to his ideals of Aryan superiority.

http://www.island-of-freedom.com/WAGNER.HTM

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Â Star Wars and Wagner's Ring

The one, Richard Wagner's Ring is undoubtedly the peak of musical romanticism, and by many praised as the greatest work of art ever produced.
Wagner creates his own theatre (the Feststpielhaus in Bayreuth) in order to realize his ideals concerning the visual and auditive effects.
The musical motiv of Walhall is deducible from the motiv of the Ring, a connection which is highlighted by Wagner in the transition music between scene 1 and 2 of Das Rheingold.

http://www.trell.org/wagner/starwars.html

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Â Encyclopedia4U - Richard Wagner - Encyclopedia Article

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 - February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas.
Young Richard Wagner entertained ambitions to be a playwright, and first became interested in music as a means of enhancing the dramas that he wanted to write and stage.
Richard Wagner played an enthusiastic role in this movement, receiving guests at his house that included his colleague August Röckel, who was editing the radical left-wing paper Volksblätter, and the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.

http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/r/richard-wagner.html (3559 words)

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Â Amazon.com: Books: Wagner : (Revised ed.)

Richard Wagner The, Man, His Mind, and His Music; The Perfect Wagnerite A Commen (Price: $39.99)
Subjects > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Classical > Composers > Wagner, Richard
Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading.

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Â Wagner Operas

Richard Wagner's musical legacy rests with only thirteen completed stage works.
Richard Wagner's life journeys from the heights of Romanticism to the movement's supreme crisis, which he himself orchestrated.
In the early days, productions of Wagner's works reflected the composer's attention to minute detail, and often took their lead from the composer's own hyper-realistic stagings at the Bayreuth Festival theater.

http://www.wagneroperas.com (3559 words)

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Â Wagner Society of Washington DC

This partnership supports young American singers with potential for careers singing the operas of Richard Wagner.
Under the honorary patronage of His Excellency, Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, the 11th Emerging Singers concert will present selections from two of Richard Wagner's works, performed by four American singers with the potential for careers singing Wagner's music.
For the Study and Enjoyment of Wagner's Art

http://www.wagner-dc.org (3559 words)

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Â Richard Pohl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Among Pohl's other works was a novel based on the life of Richard Wagner.
Richard Pohl (September 12, 1826 â€“ December 17, 1896) was a German music critic, writer, poet, and amateur composer.
He wrote invective-laden articles under the pseudonym "Hoplit" (from the Greek term hoplite, the foot-soldier of ancient Greece) in support of Liszt and Wagner, and critical of music of the more conservative Romantic composers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pohl (3559 words)

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Â Amazon.com: Music: Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle) / Sir Georg Solti [BOX SET]

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde [Original recording remastered] ~ Richard Wagner (Composer), et al
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box set] ~ Richard Wagner (Composer), et al
Tristan Und Isolde [Box set] ~ Richard Wagner (Composer), et al

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Â Richard Wagner Web Site

The subject of the Richard Wagner Web Site, edited by Kristian Evensen, is the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883), his works and life.
The Star Wars series and Wagner's Ring - structural, thematic and musical connections.
The life and times of Wagner - a comparative chronology.

http://www.trell.org/wagner (3559 words)

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Â Possessing the Ring

Richard Wagner, His Life, His Work, His Century.
Nietzsche and Hitler both much admired Wagner's work, and that nihilistic chain of influence was to give in our century full expression to the malignant death-loving exaltation of destruction and evil.
Wagner first planned one opera, to be called Siegfried's Death.

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Â Wagner Society of Northern California

But perhaps most important of all was the slim volume An Introduction to Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen", for years a staple of the gift shops and book shops of almost any Wagner performance in the United States and one of the books to give a beginner.
His love, though, was Wagner, and he wrote and published prodigiously on that love.
In any case, you are likely to be interested in our new project, the Wagner Society's guide for the festival-goer.

http://www.wagnersf.org (3559 words)

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Â Richard Wagner Opera Composer

If you are aware of books, movies, databases, web sites or other information about Richard Wagner or related subjects, or if you would like to comment please send us email.
Richard Wagner was born in May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, Germany.
The foundation of Wagner's philosophy of musical drama is the concept of "Gesamtkunstwerk," or "universal artwork." He held that music in a dramatic setting was best used to reinforce dramatic content and expression.

http://www.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96may/wagner.html (3559 words)

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Â Wagner and His Affections

Richard Wagner was not only a great and productive composer, he was also an extremely amorous man! In 1834 Wagner met Christine Wilhelmine (Minna) Planer, an actress, and in 1836 they got married.
Cosima and Richard had a stormy scene on February 13, and a few hours later Wagner was found dead.
Wagner and Cosima maintained their relationship and got married in Lucerne in 1870 while Blandine died young at St. Tropez, France.

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Â Encyclopedia: Cosima Wagner

]] Cosima Wagner ( December 25, 1837- April 1, 1930) was an illegitimate daughter of the composer, Franz Liszt, but became famous as the second wife of another composer, Richard Wagner.
Cosima already had two children from her first marriage, and her first child by Wagner, Isolde, was born before she re-married.
From 1869 to Wagner's death in 1883, she kept a diary of their life together, which was later published.

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Â Program Notes

Wagner wrote the Kinder-Katechismus zu Kosel’s Geburtstag, like the Idyll a present for Cosima, in 1873, and it was first performed at Haus Wahnfried, the Wagners’ home in Bayreuth, on Christmas morning that year.
Cosima and her daughters Daniela and Blandine visit Wagner in Vienna.
The piece was originally set for four high voices with piano, but on December 14, 1874, for a repeat performance for Cosima’s next birthday, Wagner scored the instrumental part for an ensemble of flute, oboe, two clarinets, bassoon, two horns, and strings, and it was then that he added the sixteen-measure postlude.

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Â Richard Strauss + Ben Jonson

He not only was a fan of Richard Wagner 's music, but a personal friend of Cosima, Wagner's widow.
His own tribute to Wagner, Guntram, showed his independence of mind, as it shocked the inner circle of Wagner devotees.
His musical successes in tone poem and opera were many, even without being related to the Viennese Waltz family.

http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/0611almanac.htm (3559 words)

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Â Alibris: Barry Millington

Editors Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington have translated and annotated 500 of Richard Wagner's letters and chronologically arranged them into six sections ranging from Wagner's compositional theories to his racism and love affairs.
Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading.
There has long been a need for a modern English translation of Wagner's Ring -- a version that is reliable and readable yet at the same time is a true reflection of the literary quality of the German libretto.

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Millington,Barry (416 words)

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Â Bibliography

Robert W. Gutman Richard Wagner: The Man, his Mind and his Music, San Diego, New York and London, 1990
Burk Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, London, 1951
Maxwell Brownjohn Richard Wagner, his Life, his Work, his Century, London, 1983

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Â Arnold Schoenberg

It was the poetry of Richard Dehmel that spoke to Schoenberg in this way, and he set several of Dehmel's poems to music in the late 1890s.
His earliest compositions were very much influenced by the music of Brahms, but when he discovered the music-dramas of Wagner and their restless, yearning tonality, his music took a new direction.

http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/encyclopedia/schoenberg.html (416 words)

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Â Other Wagner Links

Richard Wagner Home (libretti, music samples, buy on-line, etc)
The Richard Wagner Society of South Australia Inc.
The Wagner Society in New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)

http://users.utu.fi/hansalmi/wagner/links.html (416 words)

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Â Richard Wagner Museum Luzern, Schweiz - Information zum Museum

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) wÃ¤hlte fÃ¼nfmal Luzern zu seinem Lebensmittelpunkt.
Richard Wagner Museum Luzern, Schweiz - Information zum Museum
Zur Geburt des Sohnes Siegfried, der die AuffÃ¼hrungspraxis der Wagner-Opern entscheidend reformieren sollte, schrieb Richard Wagner hier das "Siegfried-Idyll".

http://www.kulturluzern.ch/wagner-museum (416 words)

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Â Wagner, Cosima -- Encyclopædia Britannica

Among the great composers for the theater, Richard Wagner was the only one who created plot, characters, text, and symbolism as well as the music.
German pianist and conductor Hans von Bülow's accurate, sensitive, and profoundly musical interpretations, especially of the works of Richard Wagner, established him as the prototype of...
More results on "Wagner, Cosima" when you join.

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Â General FAQ for humanities.music.composers.wagner

Wagner had told King Ludwig that he and Cosima were just good friends, but this relationship was put to a test when Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld (the first Isolde) revealed to Ludwig that Cosima was Richard's mistress.
Wagner's original intention, which was shared by a number of other composers at the time, was to write an opera based on the 'Nibelungenlied', to be called 'Siegfried's Tod' (The Death of Siegfried).
Wagner's study of philosophy and spirituality gave his music-dramas a depth and universality that sets them apart from most other works for the musical theatre.

http://home.c2i.net/monsalvat/wagnerfaq.htm (416 words)

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Â dailypennsylvanian.com -

A Philadelphia native, Wagner was quick to mention the important relationships she formed with mentors and professors at Penn. During her years as a graduate student, she studied under Music professors Richard Wernick, George Crumb, Shulamit Ran and Jay Reise.
Melinda Wagner was not taken seriously as a musician until she attended graduate school for music.
Although Wagner, who received her graduate degree from Penn in 1986, has established herself as a premier composer, she admits it was not easy.

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Â Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Re: What about Cosima? Wagner Wagner Classical Music, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bach, Handel, Chopin, Wagner

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Her background and her upbringing by cruel governesses is covered in my book "The Jew of Linz", Random House, London, 1998.

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Â Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Carlotta Grisi - Judith Gautier, Wagner's Muse

Attached to a page of Cosima Wagner's Diary for 1877 is a water-colour drawing with the caption: Japanese negligé given to me by Richard, Christmas 1877.
During his later years, including the period during which he was working on the score of Parsifal, Wagner's working environment too was draped in silks and satins, in his favourite colours, and soaked in perfume.
Wagner's surviving letters include several in which he give instructions for the purchase of fabrics and perfumes.

http://www.istrians.com/istria/illustri/grisi/gautier/judith-muse.htm (416 words)

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Â Wagner Society of Northern California

Richard Wagner's son Siegfried, who took the reins of the Bayreuth Festival on the death of his mother Cosima (and was succeeded by his wife, the notorious Winifred), was also a conductor and a remarkably prolific opera composer.
This year we will be returning to the Century Club for dinner and for some Wagner on the piano by Detlev Eisinger.
The holiday season is upon us, and thoughts turn first, of course, to our annual celebration of the birthday of the second Frau Wagner, Cosima, who was gracious enough to be born on Christmas Day.

http://www.wagnersf.org/ (416 words)

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Â CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: German Literature

This was accomplished with brilliant success by Richard Wagner (1813-83), whose music dramas are among the greatest achievements of modern German art.
The only factors that helped to counteract the materialism and commercialism that ruled the stage were the model performances of the Meiningen troupe and the uncompromising seriousness of Richard Wagner's artistic activity, as demonstrated in the festival performances of Bayreuth.
A result of the more serious view of life was the new realism that strove to present life truthfully, stripped of the conventional phraseological idealism that had been the vogue since Schiller.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06517a.htm (416 words)

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