Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. 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, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Full Name
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Date of Birth
May 22nd, 1813
Age
211
Birth Place
Germany, Saxony
Date of Death
February 13rd, 1883
Died Aged
69
Star Sign
Gemini
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Siegfried Wagner
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Isolde Wagner
Daughter
Cosima Wagner
Wife
Minna Planer
Wife
Johanna Rosina Wagner-Geyer
Mother
Rosalie Wagner
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