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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (pronounced /ˈvɑːɡnər/, German pronunciation: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other opera composers,...
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Wesendonck Lieder
The Wesendonck Lieder is a song cycle composed by Richard Wagner while he was working on Die Walküre. This, and the Siegfried Idyll, are his only two non-operatic works that are still regularly performed.
The cycle is a setting of poems by Mathilde...
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Götterdämmerung
Götterdämmerung (help·info) (English: Twilight of the Gods) is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas entitled Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short). It received its premiere at the Bayreuth...
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Der Ring des Nibelungen
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas or 'music dramas' by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883). The operas are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied. The works...
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) is an opera in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. It is one of the most popular operas in the repertory, and is among the longest still commonly performed today,...
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Der fliegende Holländer
Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) is an opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner. The story comes from the legend of the Flying Dutchman, about a ship captain condemned to sail until Judgment Day.
Wagner claimed in his 1870...
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Lohengrin
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel,...
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Parsifal
Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail.
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Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde, or Tristan and Isolda) is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1856...
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Das Rheingold
Das Rheingold ("The Rhine Gold") is the first of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. Das Rheingold was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring; however, the cycle...
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Die Walküre
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It is the source of the famous piece Ride of the Valkyries.
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Siegfried
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The...
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Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen
Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (WWV 49) (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). The title is commonly...
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Ride of the Valkyries
The Ride of the Valkyries (German: Walkürenritt), is the popular term for the beginning of Act III of Die Walküre by Richard Wagner. The main theme of the ride, the leitmotif labelled Walkürenritt was first written down by the composer on 23 July...
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Siegfried Idyll
The Siegfried Idyll, one of Richard Wagner's few non-operatic works, is a symphonic poem lasting approximately twenty minutes for chamber orchestra. Wagner composed it as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son...
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Das Liebesverbot
Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love) is an early opera in two acts by Richard Wagner, with the libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Described as a grosse komische Oper, it was composed in 1834, and Wagner conducted...
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Die Hochzeit
Die Hochzeit (The Wedding) is an unfinished opera by Richard Wagner which predates all his completed works in the genre. Wagner completed the libretto, then started composing the music in the second half of 1832 when he was just nineteen. He...
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Die Feen
Die Feen (The Fairies) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. The German libretto was written by the composer after Carlo Gozzi's La donna serpente.
Die Feen was Wagner's first completed opera, but remained unperformed in his lifetime. It has...
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Tannhäuser und der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg
Tannhäuser (full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg / Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg) is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two Germanic legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest...
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Faust Overture
The Faust Overture is a concert overture composed by German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner originally composed it from 1839-40, intending it to be the first movement of a Faust Symphony based on the play Faust by German playwright Johann Wolfgang...
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- 1840
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Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist
Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist oder Die glückliche Bärenfamilie ("Men Are More Cunning Than Women, or The Happy Bear Family") is an unfinished Singspiel by Richard Wagner, (WWV 48), written between 1837 and 1838.
Männerlist was Wagner's last...
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Das Liebesmahl der Apostel
Das Liebesmahl der Apostel WWV 69 (in English The Feast of Pentecost, "The Love-Meal of the Apostles") is a vocal and instrumental piece written by Richard Wagner in 1843, which is not often performed and somewhat forgotten; it is a piece for male...
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- 1843
Symphony in C major
Symphony in C major, WWV29, is the only work in this form that Richard Wagner wrote.
The Symphony in C major is in four movements:
Performance time lasts approximately 37 minutes.
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- 1832
