The Great Composers in Words and Music - Wagner (in englischer Sprache)

1 Introduction
2 Richard Wagner
3 On laying the foundation stone of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 22 May 1872, Richard Wagner - who turned 59 years old...
4 Ludwig van Beethoven
5 An extract from Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131 is a useful place to start to sketch...
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7 Given his family's theatrical pursuits, it is perhaps no surprise that Wagner turned his attention from the concert...
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9 Wagner's second completed opera Das Liebesverbot ("The Ban on Love"), a comic opera in two acts modelled on...
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11 Triumph, however, did not ensue. Rather, calamity, disillusionment and failure.
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13 Success with Rienzi brought immediate benefits, not least the premiere on 2 January 1843 - also at the Dresden...
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15 There was a reason that Wagner did not conduct, or even attend, the Weimar premiere of Lohengrin in the late summer of..
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17 It would be some time before music such as this, Ride of the Valkyries from Wagner's Die Walküre, would be heard in...
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19 Wagner's symphonic-style orchestra writing has been thought to betray the influence of a composer mentioned at the...
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21 A second major work by Wagner created during the lengthy hiatus in the composition of the Ring provided a stark...
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23 Wagner had begun the music to Die Meistersinger in February 1862 while living temporarily in Mainz.
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25 A period of relative calm and contentment was to ensue, thanks entirely to the intervention of the eighteen-year old...
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27 Following the premiere of the complete Ring cycle - comprising no less than sixteen hours of music extended over four...
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