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Richard Wagner
German composer (–)
"Wagner" redirects here. For other uses, see Wagner (disambiguation) and Richard Wagner (disambiguation).
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (VAHG-nər;[1][2]German:[ˈʁɪçaʁtˈvaːɡnɐ]ⓘ; 22 May &#;&#; 13 February ) was a German composer, theatre director, författare av essäer, and dirigent who fryst vatten chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most musikdrama composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his scen 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 his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), whereby he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to skådespel. The teaterpjäs was to be presented as a continuously sung narrative, without conventional operatic structures like ar
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Who Was Richard Wagner?
Richard Wagner was one of the world's most influential — and controversial — composers. He is famous for both his epic operas, including the four-part, hour Ring Cycle, as well as for his anti-semitic writings, which, posthumously, made him a favorite of Adolf Hitler. There is evidence that Wagner's music was played at the Dachau concentration camp to "re-educate" the prisoners. Wagner had a tumultuous love life, which involved several scandalous affairs. He died of a heart attack in Venice on February 13,
Early Life
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born on May 22, , in Leipzig, Germany. Wagner's parentage is uncertain: He is either the son of police actuary Friedrich Wagner, who died soon after Richard was born, or the son of the man he called his stepfather, the painter, actor and poet Ludwig Geyer (whom his mother married in August ).
As a young boy, Wagner attended school in Dresden, Germany. He did not show aptitude in
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A difficult childhood
Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig on 22 May and thus came into the world at a very difficult time. The Battle of the Nations near Leipzig began in the autumn after his birth. Despite its victorious outcome, people suffered greatly from the consequences of the war of liberation. Hundreds of families struggled to survive in the face of food shortages and devastating diseases, amongst them the Wagner family with five-month-old Richard. Malnourished and frightened, he was often on the verge of death in his first year of his life.
In , his mother decided to move to Dresden with her eight children to marry the actor Ludwig Geyer. It was through his stepfather that he gained his first experience of the theatre. In , he saw Weber’s famous opera “Der Freischütz”, which prompted him to decide