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    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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  • Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was a German Romantic composer. Dick, Rick or Richard Wagner may also refer to: Richard Paul Wagner (1882–1953), German locomotive...
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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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  • compositions by Richard Wagner. List of works for the stage by Richard Wagner The numbers given for Richard Wagner's works are from the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis...
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    The German composer Richard Wagner was a controversial figure during his lifetime, and has continued to be so after his death. Even today he is associated...
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    Richard Wagner PC (French pronunciation: [vaɡnɛʁ]; born April 2, 1957) is a Canadian jurist serving as the 18th and current Chief Justice of Canada since...
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    WWV 86C, is the third of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered...
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    Winifred Marjorie Wagner (née Williams; 23 June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was the English-born wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, and ran the...
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    Siegfried Helferich Richard Wagner (6 June 1869 – 4 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer...
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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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  • Look up Wagner in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was a German composer. Wagner may also refer to: Wagner (surname), including...
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    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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    Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Richard Wagner, among others. Liszt coined the terms "transcription" and "paraphrase"...
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  • The Richard Wagner Foundation (in German Richard-Wagner-Stiftung) was formed in 1973, when, faced with overwhelming criticism and infighting amongst the...
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    The Richard-Wagner-Straße is a street in the Bavarian state capital Munich. It is named after the composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883), who lived in the...
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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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  • list of cinema films which have music by Richard Wagner in their soundtracks (other than films of Wagner's operas themselves). Casual references (and...
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    at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, with music and text by Richard Wagner (WWV 70 in the catalogue of the composer's works). It is based on two...
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    composer Richard Wagner. As he says in the preface, when the selections are read "one after the other they will leave no doubt either about Richard Wagner or...
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    86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend...
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    The Wagner tuba is a four-valve brass instrument commissioned by and named after Richard Wagner. It combines technical features of both standard tubas...
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    Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering...
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    them into his non-technical analysis of Wagner, which was highly regarded, particularly his essay "Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris". Baudelaire's reaction...
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    League player Cosima Wagner (1837–1930), director of the Bayreuth Festival, daughter of Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner Dalton Wagner (born 1998), American...
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    Richard Wagner was dismissive of Nietzsche's music, allegedly mocking a birthday gift of a piano composition sent by Nietzsche in 1871 to Wagner's wife...
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    Wagner and Gudrun Wagner (née Armann), great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, and great-great granddaughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Wagner...
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    The Richard Wagner Museum is a cultural site in Lucerne, Switzerland, situated on the shore of Lake Lucerne in the district of Tribschen. The composer...
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    northern edges of the Alps as a retreat but also in honour of composer Richard Wagner, whom he greatly admired. Ludwig chose to pay for the palace out of...
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    language as Jewishness in Music), is an antisemitic essay by composer Richard Wagner which criticizes the influence of Jews and their "essence" on European...
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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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