Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 in Leipzig – February 13, 1883 in Venice) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking "music dramas". Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 About...
Almost a hundred years after Richard Wagner's death the noted musicologist Marcel Prawy wrote, "Richard Wagner wurde am 22. Mai 1813 geboren und ist niemals gestorben" (Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813, and he never died). Ten of his thirteen...
The German operatic composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was the most important seminal figure in 19th-century music. Wagner was also a crucial figure in 19th-century cultural history for both his criticism and polemical writing. Richard Wagner was born...
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas" as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner...
Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. By Dieter Borchmeyer. Trans. by Daphne Ellis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. [x, 391 p. ISBN 0-691-11497-8. $39.50. ] Index. Dieter Borchmeyer is one of the most active German scholars working in the sprawling area of...
Here are two unseasonal but thought-provoking books that help, each in its own way, to re-integrate Richard Wagner into the canon of German literature and, what is more, into the discourse of Germanistik. From the latter, for ideological reasons not always convincing, or sincere,...
Gudrun Wagner, wife of Bayreuth Opera Festival director Wolfgang Wagner and a key partner in helping him stage the annual event, died Wednesday, officials said. She was 63.She died Wednesday morning at a Bayreuth hospital. No cause of death was immediately given, said Peter Emmerich,...
A real-life drama of succession as riveting as any Richard Wagner opera is casting a shadow over this year's Bayreuth Festival, raising the anticipation level among devotees of the German master even before the first curtain rises Wednesday at the musical shrine he inaugurated 131...
In the following essay, Lindenberger identifies the Ring as “embedded in the world of its time,” while acknowledging the importance of its poetic experimentalism and epic mode of narration.
