Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/ VAHG-nər; German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist...
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Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç də la ˌmɔtfuˈkeː]); (12 February 1777 – 23 January 1843) was a German writer of...
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Richard Wagner's works for the stage, representing more than 50 years of creative life, comprise his 13 completed operas and a similar number of failed...
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The family of the composer Richard Wagner: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary ∞ 1798 Johanna Rosine Pätz (1778–1848), daughter...
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Wagner is a 1983 television miniseries on the life of Richard Wagner with Richard Burton in the title role. It was directed by Tony Palmer and written...
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Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia (20 March 1828 – 15 June 1885) was the son of Prince Charles of Prussia (1801–1883) and his wife, Princess Marie...
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Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker (September 28, 1811 – March 24, 1881) was a German lawyer, politician and revolutionary. He was one of the most popular speakers...
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Bayreuth Festival (redirect from Richard Wagner Festival)
performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special festival...
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via Google Books. Nietzsche, Friedrich (1908). Ecce Homo. p. Chapter on The Case of Wagner, section 2. Nietzsche, Friedrich (1886). Beyond Good and Evil...
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (German: Gauß [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɡaʊs] ; Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician...
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author Marie d'Agoult. She became the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner, and with him founded the Bayreuth Festival as a showcase for his stage...
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Karl Friedrich May (/maɪ/ MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels...
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Parsifal (redirect from Parsifal (Wagner))
music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century...
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including Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Richard Wagner, Frederick Douglass and Friedrich Nietzsche. An associate...
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Lohengrin (opera) (redirect from Lohengrin (Wagner))
WWV 75, 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...
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was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Wagner, and Richard Strauss. Karl Böhm was born in Graz, Styria, Austria. The son of a lawyer...
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Amalie Materna (redirect from Amalie Friedrich-Materna)
operas by Richard Wagner. Materna made her professional opera début at the Thalia Theatre in Graz in 1865. She then married Karl Friedrich, an actor,...
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Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (redirect from Carl Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach)
Charles Frederick (German: Karl Friedrich; 2 February 1783 – 8 July 1853) was the reigning Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Born in Weimar, he was the...
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Tristan und Isolde (category Operas by Richard Wagner)
und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century...
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played under Carl Maria von Weber, and later under Richard Wagner, playing in the premieres of Wagner's operas Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman. He made concert...
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Nast Eva von der Osten Karl Perron Hermann Wedekind Marie Wittich 1842: Richard Wagner – Rienzi, 20 October 1843: Richard Wagner – The Flying Dutchman...
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Karl Baedeker Erich Bagge Marc Baldus Valentine Bargmann Heinrich Barkhausen Henry H. Barschall Heinz Barwich Ernst G. Bauer Karl Bechert Friedrich Beck...
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to the works The Ring Of The Nibelung by Richard Wagner (1813–1883) and Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900). The Felsenkeller (litt...
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February 1918), Württemberg's Military Merit Order, and Baden's Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order. In addition to these highest awards of the major states...
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confidant of the monarch. Although this infatuation, like that with Richard Wagner, was probably not sexually expressed, there were rumours in Munich that...
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Carl Maria von Weber (redirect from Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Baron von Weber)
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (c. 18 November 1786 – 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of...
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Corinna Bath Friedrich L. Bauer August Beer Walter Benz Rudolf Berghammer Felix Bernstein Ludwig Berwald Friedrich Bessel Karl Bobek Friedrich Böhm Oskar...
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Richard Ermisch (full name: Georg Friedrich Richard Ermisch) (17 June 1885, Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt – 7 December 1960, Berlin) was a German...
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Karl Bücher Bruno Hildebrand Georg Friedrich Knapp Karl Knies Étienne Laspeyres Wilhelm Roscher Gustav von Schmoller Werner Sombart Adolph Wagner Max...
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Gerhard Drawe Friedrich Duerr Ernst R. G. Eckert Rudolph Edse [de] Otto Eisenhardt Krafft Arnold Ehricke Alfred Finzel Edward Fischel Karl Fleischer Anton...
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