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Richard Wagner

Also known as Wilhelm Richard Wagner, Wagner

German composer (1813–1883)

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Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was a German composer, librettist, conductor, and essayist. Born Wilhelm Richard Wagner in Leipzig, he was educated at Leipzig University, the Kreuzschule, and the Thomasschule zu Leipzig. His primary fields of work included opera and Musikdrama, with notable works such as The Flying Dutchman, Tristan und Isolde, Tannhäuser, and Das Rheingold. He was also influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer.

Wagner held citizenship in the Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. He was married to Minna Planer and Cosima Wagner, and they had two children, Siegfried Wagner and Isolde Wagner. He died of myocardial infarction in Venice on 13 February 1883. His writings and music are described in sources including the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron and the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.

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Born: 22 May 1813
Died: 13 February 1883
Works: 1218

Top works

The flying Dutchman
Lohengrin
Il crepuscolo degli dei
Sonate für das Pianoforte componirt und Herrn Theodor Weinlig, Cantor und Musikdirector in der Thomasschule zu Leipzig hochachtungsvoll gewidmet von Richard Wagner ...
Der Ring des Nibelungen

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Leipzig, Germany

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] (About this sound listen); 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 later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. He…

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Lohengrin — Self - Composer2019
Hitler und der Wagner Clan — Self (archive footage)2013

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1813
Active to: 1883

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Siegfried Der Ring des Nibelungen

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Listeners: 864,737
Total plays: 10,491,350

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Instance of: human
Given name: Wilhelm
Family name: Wagner
Gender: male
Citizenship: Austria
Place of birth: Leipzig
Place of death: Venice
Spouse: Minna Planer
Child: Isolde Wagner
Occupation: writer
Educated at: Thomasschule zu Leipzig
Employer: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Languages spoken: German
Native language: German
Religion: Lutheranism
Award: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Notable work: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Family: Wagner family
Student of: Christian Theodor Weinlig
Field of work: Musikdrama
Genre: classical music
Instrument: piano
Image: RichardWagner.jpg

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cause of death: myocardial infarction
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date of death: 1883-00-00
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birth name: Wilhelm Richard Wagner
influenced by: Arthur Schopenhauer
place of burial: Wahnfried
manner of death: natural causes
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sponsor: Ludwig II of Bavaria
name in native language: Richard Wagner
student: Anton Seidl
list of works: list of compositions by Richard Wagner
writing language: German
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start of work period: 1832-00-00
pseudonym: H. Valentino
medical condition: synesthesia
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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Richard Wagner, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Ouverture to The flying dutchman [Música notada]

Der Ring des Nibelungen : ein Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend. . Erster Tag, , Die Walküre [Música notada]

Der Ring des Nibelungen : ein Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend. . Zweiter Tag, , Siegfried [Música notada]

Der Ring des Nibelungen : ein Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend. . Dritter Tag, , Götterdämmerung [Música notada]

Tristan und Isolde [Música notada]

Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg von Richard Wagner [Texto impreso]

Der Ring des Nibelungen : ein Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend. . Vorabend, , Das Rheingold [Música notada]

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [Música notada]

Parsifal [Música notada]

Tristan und Isolde [Música notada]

Parsifal [Música notada] :]ein Bühnenweihfestspiel von Richard Wagner

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [Música notada] =]The Master-Singers of Nuremberg

Rienzi [Música notada]: opéra en 5 actes

Mein Leben [Printed Text]

Mignonne

Dors, mon enfant

Attente

Siegfried [Música notada]

Lohengrin's Herkunft [Música notada]: [Lyrische Stücke für eine Gesangstimme]

Der fliegende Holländer [Música notada]= The flying Dutchman = Il vascello fantasma : romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen von Richard Wagner

Choeur des pélerins de Tannhauser pour 4 voix d'hommes [Música notada]

Aus Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.. N.º 4,, Der Ritt der Walküren [Música notada] :]für das Pianoforte

Lohengrin.. Sola ne' miei primi anni :scena e romanza

The mastersingers of Nuremberg: Schusterlied; II part; II act/(Richard Wagner)

The Mastersingers: Prize Song from the Opera.

Lohengrin: 2nd act, duet Elsa - Ortrud: “Desecrated Gods”; I. part/(R. Wagner)

Waldweben (That I am not my father): aus: Siegfried; II part/(Richard Wagner)

Looking around: from “Tannhäuser”/von Wagner

Fire spell: (lodge, hear’!) from “Walkite,” III. Nude/von Wagner

Tristan and Isolde: 2nd elevator, 2nd scene (love duet) “O sink 'down, Night of Love”/(R. Wagner)

Blessed Oede on wonniger Höh '! : from “Siegfried,” III. Nude/von Wagner

You are the Lenz: (“Die Waküre”); II part/(Richard Wagner)

Tannhäuser: 2nd act, “There is her”/(Wagner)

Divine twilight : 1. Nude, 2. Still: “Here I sit for the Wacht”/(Rich. Wagner)

Prayer from “Rienzi”/von Wagner

Thanks, King, you! : I. Nude (“Lohengrin”)/(Richard Wagner)

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Encyclopedic overview

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/ VAHG-nər; German: [ˈvɪlˌhɛlm ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most composers, Wagner wrote both the libretti and the music for all of his stage works. He first achieved recognition with works in the Romantic tradition of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but revolutionised the genre through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), which sought to unite poetic, musical, visual, and dramatic elements. In this approach, the drama unfolds as a continuously sung narrative, with the music evolving organically from the text rather than alternating between arias and recitatives. Wagner outlined these ideas in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852, most fully realising them in the first half of his four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).

Wagner's compositions, particularly in his later period, have complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas, or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music; his Tristan und Isolde is regarded as an important precursor to modernist music. Later in life, he softened his ideological stance against traditional operatic forms (e.g., arias, ensembles and choruses), reintroducing them into his last few stage works, including Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) and Parsifal.

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