Richard Wagner
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Person · Open Library
- 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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1813-05-22
- Active to
- 1883-02-13
classicalcomposerdie walkuredresdeneuropeangerman
Discography
- Siegfried. Fantaisie1927
- A Wagner Concert1944
- Tristan und Isolde1952
- Die Walkure, Act 31952
- Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg1952
- Die Walküre1955
- Prelude & Liebestod from "Tristan Und Isolde" / Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Funeral Music from "Die Gotterdammerung"1955
- Munch Conducts Wagner1957
- Tristan et Isolde (Extraits)1957
- Das Rheingold1959
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 863,959
- Total plays
- 10,476,274
Tags
Classicaloperaromanticgermancomposers
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (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. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richar
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Wagner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Romania
- Place of birth
- Lovrin
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Spouse
- Herta Müller
- Occupation
- teacher
- Educated at
- West University of Timișoara
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- German
- Official website
- richardwagner.jimdo.com
- Image
- Richard Wagner 2010.JPG
- Residence
- Berlin
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- Commons category
- Richard Wagner (Novelist)
- different from
- Richard Wagner
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
- writing language
- German
- date of death
- 2023-03-14
- name in native language
- Richard Wagner
- date of birth
- 1952-04-10
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