‘1871’
(age 58)
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*DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN*
(1876)
(wagner was 63)
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*PARSIFAL*
(1882)
(wagner was 69)
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“OUR CONCLUSIONS”
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(1813 – 1883)
(died at age 70)
‘music dramas’
composer / conductor / theatre director / essayist
13 completed operas
“richard wagner…i have temporarily abandoned thee…”
first started getting into wagner when i took a wagner biography (“the early years”) from the professor’s home library before he departed for the hawaiian ironman triathlon in 2009…
i share wagner’s frustrations with the rampant success of shallow musicians…
(he eventually blamed it all on the ‘jews’)
(the problem persists to the ‘modern day’)
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/ˈvɑːɡnər/
German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]
(’22 may 1813′ – ’13 february 1883′)
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(“wilhelm richard wagner” was a german ‘composer’, ‘theater director’, ‘polemicist’, and ‘conductor’ who is primarily known for his ‘operas’ (or, as some of his later works were later known, “music dramas”))
(unlike most ‘opera composers’, ‘wagner’ wrote both the ‘libretto’ and the ‘music’ for each of his ‘stage works’)
(initially establishing his reputation as a ‘composer’ of works in the ‘romantic vein’ of ‘weber’ and ‘meyerbeer’, ‘wagner’ revolutionized ‘opera’ through his concept of the gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of art”), by which he sought to synthesize the ‘poetic’, ‘visual’, ‘musical’, and ‘dramatic’ arts, with ‘music’ subsidiary to ‘drama’)
(he described this ‘vision’ in a series of ‘essays’ published between ‘1849’ and ‘1852’)
(‘wagner’ realized these ideas most fully in the first half of the 4-opera cycle der ring des nibelungen (aka “the ring of the nibelung))
(his ‘compositions’ (particularly those of his ‘later period’), are notable for their ‘complex textures’, rich ‘harmonies’ and ‘orchestration’, and the elaborate use of ‘leitmotifs’ (‘musical phrases’ associated with ‘individual characters’, ‘places’, ‘ideas’, or ‘plot elements’))
(his advances in ‘musical language’ (such as ‘extreme chromaticism’ and ‘quickly shifting tonal centers’), greatly influenced the development of ‘classical music’)
(his tristan und isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of “modern music”)
(‘wagner’ had his own ‘opera house’ built, the ‘bayreuth festspielhaus’, which embodied many ‘novel design features’)
(the ring and parsifal were premiered here and his most important ‘stage works’ continue to be performed at the annual ‘bayreuth festival’, run by his ‘descendants’)
(his thoughts on the ‘relative contributions’ of ‘music’ and ‘drama’ in ‘opera’ were to change again, and he reintroduced some ‘traditional forms’ into his last few ‘stage works’, including die meistersinger von nürnberg (aka ‘the mastersingers of nuremberg’))
(“how’s THAT for ‘proto-nazi propaganda’?”)
(until his final years, wagner’s life was characterized by ‘political exile’, ‘turbulent love affairs’, ‘poverty’, and ‘repeated flight from his creditors’)
“sounds like fun!”
(his controversial writings on ‘music’, ‘drama’, and ‘politics’ have attracted extensive comment, notably, since the late 20th century, where they express ‘anti-semitic sentiments’)
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(the effect of his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the ‘1900s’)
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(his influence spread beyond ‘composition’ into…)
‘conducting’
‘philosophy’
‘literature’
*the ‘visual arts’*
‘theater’
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👈👈👈☜*“GERMAN COMPOSERS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥