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 (born: Leipzig, 22 May 1813; died: Venice, 13 Feb 1883).
German composer. In 1833 he became chorus master at the W??rzburg theatre and wrote the text and music of his first opera, Die Feen; this remained unheard, but his next, Das Liebesverbot, written in 1833, was staged in 1836.
In 1839 he traveled to London and then to Paris, where he was befriended by Meyerbeer and did hack-work for publishers and theatres. In 1842 Rienzi, a large-scale opera with a political theme set in imperial Rome, was accepted for Dresden and Wagner went there for its highly successful premi?¿re. Its theme reflects something of Wagner's own politics (he was involved in the semi-revolutionary, intellectual 'Young Germany' movement).
The theme of redemption through a woman's love recurs in Wagner's operas (and perhaps his life). In 1845 Tannh?ñuser was completed and performed and Lohengrin begun. In both, Wagner moves towards a more continuous texture with semi-melodic narrative and a supporting orchestral fabric helping convey its sense. In 1848 he was caught up in the revolutionary fervour and the next year fled to Weimar and then Switzerland; politically suspect, he was unable to enter Germany for 11 years. In Z??rich, he began sketching the text and music of a series of operas on the Nordic and Germanic sagas. By 1853 the text for this four-night cycle (to be The Nibelung's Ring) was written, printed and read to friends - who included a generous patron Otto Wesendonck, and his wife Mathilde, who inspired Tristan und Isolde - conceived in 1854 and completed five years later. Here Wagner, in depicting every shade of sexual love, developed a style richer and more chromatic than anyone had previously attempted, using dissonance and its urge for resolution in a continuing pattern to build up tension and a sense of profound yearning.
The first two Ring operas, Das Rheingold and Die Walk??re, were given in Munich in 1869 and 1870; Wagner however was anxious to have a special festival opera house for the complete cycle and spent much energy trying to raise money for it. Eventually, the house was built at Bayreuth, designed by Wagner as the home for his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ('total art work'- an alliance of music, poetry, the visual arts, dance etc). The first festival, an artistic triumph but a financial disaster - was held there in 1876, when the complete Ring was given. The Ring is about 18 hours of music, held together by an immensely detailed network of themes, or leitmotifs, each of which has some allusive meaning: a character, a concept, an object etc. They change and develop as the ideas within the opera develop. They are heard in the orchestra, not merely as 'labels' but carrying the action, sometimes informing the listener of connections of ideas or the thoughts of those on the stage. There are no 'numbers' in the Ring; the musical texture is made up of narrative and dialogue, in which the orchestra partakes. The work is not merely Find Richard Wagner vinyl records and Richard Wagner cds on Ponto Records.


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 100 Ans De Bayreuth  Richard Wagner 100 Ans De Bayreuth 4LP   1 listed $76
 Arias  Richard Wagner Arias CD   1 listed $9
 Audiobook  Richard Wagner Audiobook CD   1 listed $93
   Richard Wagner Bayreuth Festival 1927 CD   2 listed $29
   Richard Wagner Bekannte Ouvertueren CD   2 listed $4
 Best Of Wagner  Richard Wagner Best Of Wagner CD   10 listed $9 - $57
   Richard Wagner Bridal Chorus Sheet Music   1 listed $8
   Richard Wagner Cantatas And Overtures CD   2 listed $37
   Richard Wagner Classical Masterpieces LP, CD   3 listed $7
 Complete Opera Collection  Richard Wagner Complete Opera Collection CD   1 listed $57
 Concert D'adieu  Richard Wagner Concert D'adieu 2LP   1 listed $47
   Richard Wagner Das Leonie Rysanek Album 2LP   1 listed $38
   Richard Wagner Das Reingold CD   1 listed $36
 Das Rheingold  Richard Wagner Das Rheingold LP, DVD, CD, 2CD   35 listed $10 - $301
 Der Fliegende Hollander  Richard Wagner Der Fliegende Hollander CD, LP, DVD, 2CD, LP Box Set   38 listed $1 - $107
 Der Ring Des Nibelungen  Richard Wagner Der Ring Des Nibelungen CD, LP, DVD, 4CD, Blu-ray   42 listed $6 - $482
   Richard Wagner Die Fliegende Hollander 2CD   1 listed $24
 Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg  Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg CD, LP, 7" PS, Blu-ray, 7", DVD, CD Box Set   27 listed $3 - $178
   Richard Wagner Dies Meistersinger Von Nuremberg LP   1 listed $22
 Die Walkure  Richard Wagner Die Walkure CD, 2LP, LP, DVD, 3CD   45 listed $10 - $301
   Richard Wagner Exerpts From Der Ring Des Nibelungen LP+CDR   1 listed $58
   Richard Wagner Family Library Of Great Music LP   1 listed $9
   Richard Wagner Feuerzauber LP   1 listed $10
   Richard Wagner Fliegende Hollander LP   1 listed $14
 Flying Dutchman  Richard Wagner Flying Dutchman LP, CD   4 listed $16 - $60
 Four Overtures  Richard Wagner Four Overtures LP   1 listed $16
 Gotterdammerung  Richard Wagner Gotterdammerung LP, CD, DVD   31 listed $10 - $301
   Richard Wagner Greatest Classical Hits CD   2 listed $35 - $90
 Great Moments In Wagner  Richard Wagner Great Moments In Wagner LP   1 listed $22
   Richard Wagner Grosse Chore LP   1 listed $11
 Gtterdmmerung  Richard Wagner GÖtterdÄmmerung CD   3 listed $33 - $45
   Richard Wagner His Story And His Music CD   1 listed $4
   Richard Wagner In Swiss Exile CD   2 listed $30
 Introduction To The Operas  Richard Wagner Introduction To The Operas LP   1 listed $19
   Richard Wagner Karajan LP   1 listed $17
   Richard Wagner La Chevauchee Des Walkyries CD   1 listed $5
 La L  Richard Wagner La L CD   2 listed $10 - $18
   Richard Wagner La Vaisseau Fantôme 3LP   1 listed $47
   Richard Wagner La Walkyrie CD   1 listed $21
 L Bernstein Conducts R Wagner  Richard Wagner L. Bernstein Conducts R. Wagner CD   3 listed $23 - $26
   Richard Wagner Les Différents Visages De Siegfried LP   1 listed $47
   Richard Wagner Les Grandes Voix LP   2 listed $47
   Richard Wagner Les Introuvables Du Chant Wagnérien LP   1 listed $76
 Lohengrin  Richard Wagner Lohengrin CD, LP, Other, DVD, CD Box Set, 4LP, 7"   38 listed $1 - $133
 L'or Du Rhin  Richard Wagner L'or Du Rhin 4LP   1 listed $58
 Meistersinger  Richard Wagner Meistersinger CD, LP   5 listed $17 - $52
   Richard Wagner Opera Greats CD   5 listed $6 - $66
   Richard Wagner Operatic Chamber Music Other   1 listed $24
 Orchestral Music From Operas  Richard Wagner Orchestral Music From Operas CD, LP   8 listed $5 - $14
 Ouverture  Richard Wagner Ouverture LP, CD   10 listed $4 - $51
 Overtures  Richard Wagner Overtures LP, CD   8 listed $2 - $133
   Richard Wagner Pages Symphoniques D'operas CD   1 listed $33
 Parsifal  Richard Wagner Parsifal LP, CD, DVD, LP Box Set, 2CD   31 listed $8 - $178
   Richard Wagner Preludes And Overtures LP   1 listed $10
   Richard Wagner Rca Red Seal CD   1 listed $4
 Recital  Richard Wagner Recital LP   1 listed $29
 Reiner Conducts Wagner  Richard Wagner Reiner Conducts Wagner CD   7 listed $9 - $40
   Richard Wagner Rheingold LP, 2CD   2 listed $19 - $53
 Richard Wagner  Richard Wagner Richard Wagner LP, CD, 2LP   19 listed $6 - $151
   Richard Wagner Ring Cycle CD   2 listed $301
   Richard Wagner Ring Des Nibelungen LP   1 listed $14
   Richard Wagner Ring Hlts CD   1 listed $13
   Richard Wagner The Ring Of The Nibelung LP   1 listed $200
 Scenes  Richard Wagner Scenes LP   1 listed $15
   Richard Wagner Sieegfried Idyll CD   1 listed $12
 Siegfried  Richard Wagner Siegfried LP, CD, DVD   35 listed $10 - $301
 Silent Wagner  Richard Wagner Silent Wagner DVD   5 listed $13 - $21
   Richard Wagner So Many Heroes CD   1 listed $26
   Richard Wagner Song Of The Evening Star Sheet Music   1 listed $6
 Szenen Aus Tristan Und Isolde  Richard Wagner Szenen Aus Tristan Und Isolde LP   1 listed $6
 Tannh  Richard Wagner Tannh CD   1 listed $23
 Tannhauser  Richard Wagner Tannhauser LP, CD, Other   15 listed $4 - $133
   Richard Wagner TannhŽuser CD   2 listed $23 - $26
 Toscanini Conducts Wagner Richard Wagner Lm  Richard Wagner Toscanini Conducts Wagner Richard Wagner Lm LP   1 listed $14
   Richard Wagner Treasury Of Great Music 4LP   1 listed $47
 Tristan Und Isolde  Richard Wagner Tristan Und Isolde CD, LP, DVD, LP Box Set, 3CD, Other, SACD   50 listed $12 - $178
   Richard Wagner Un Genie En Exil DVD   1 listed $39
   Richard Wagner Vive La France LP   2 listed $10 - $67
 Vorspiele And Karfreitagszauber  Richard Wagner Vorspiele And Karfreitagszauber LP   2 listed $12 - $23
 Wagner,richard  Richard Wagner Wagner,richard DVD Box Set, CD, LP, DVD, Cassette, 4CD, 2CD   27 listed $1 - $301
   Richard Wagner Wesendonck CD   7 listed $16 - $40
   Richard Wagner Wilhelm Furtwängler Dirigiert Richard Wagner LP   1 listed $9
   Richard Wagner Zeigenossische Klavieraufnah LP   1 listed $5
   Richard Wagner / Metropolitan Opera Twilight Of The Gods CD   8 listed $9 - $52
   Richard Wagner / Orchester Der Deuts Rienzi LP, DVD   5 listed $12 - $119
   Richard Wagner / Uwe Mund The Ring Orchestral Highlights CD   2 listed $19
   Richard Wagner / Wiener Philharmonik Plays Wagner CD   2 listed $33
 Die Feen  Richard Wagner / Wolfgang Sawallisch Die Feen CD, LP   6 listed $39 - $133
   Richard Wagner György Lehel Vasil Kazandjiev Budap Masters Of Classical Music CD   1 listed $3
   Richard Wagner, camille Saint-saens, arnold Bax The Very Best Of The Bbc CD   1 listed $7
 Excalibur And Other Selections  Richard Wagner-carl Orff Excalibur And Other Selections LP   2 listed $13 - $23
   Richard Wagner-erich Wolfgang Korngold Magic Fire; Mono LP   2 listed $15 - $23
   Richard / Bpo / Maazel Wagner Ring Without Words Blu-ray, DVD   2 listed $37 - $41
   Richard; Ring- Tannhauser-classic Gold Wagner Various Artists CD   2 listed $15 - $40
   Wagner Richard Wilhe Lm - Evening Star Tos-bio Sketch Sheet Music   1 listed $5
   Wagner, richard (hans Werner Richter, symphonie Orch Famous Overtures LP   1 listed $2
 Symphony In C Major  Wagner, richard / Brso / Rogner, heinz Symphony In C Major LP, CD   4 listed $13 - $22
   Wagner, richard / Strauss, richardsebastian Faust Overture CD   2 listed $11 - $14
   Wagner, richard: Flagstad, kirsten Dem Genius Richard Wagner Verpflichtet 2LP   1 listed $8
   Wagner, richard: Mears, pat There Goes The Rainbow CD   2 listed $4
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