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John F. Runciman Richard Wagner Composer Of Operas

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As The Springtide Of 1813 Was Melting Into Early Summer The Poet And Musician Of Spring Days And Summer Nights Was Born At The House Of The Red And White Lion On The Brühl In Old Leipzig. The Precise Date Was May 22; And Owing To Many Causes The 16th Of August Came Round Before, At The Church Of St. Thomas, The Child Was Christened Wilhelm Richard Wagner. The Events And Circumstances Of The Period Have Furnished The Imaginative With Many Striking Portents With Regard To The Future Mighty Composer; And, To Do The Prophets Full Justice, After The Event--Long After The Event--They Have Widely Opened Their Mouths And Uttered Prophecies. Thus The Name Of The House, Describing A Beast Such As Never Was On Sea Or Land, Distinctly Warned A Drowsy People That The Monstrous Dragon Of _Siegfried_ Was About To Take The Road Leading From Nowhere To Bayreuth. The Spring Foretold The Songs In _Tannhäuser_ And The _Valkyrie_; The Summer, The Nights In King Mark's Cornish Castle-Garden And Amongst The Fragrant Lime-Trees In The Streets Of Ancient Nuremberg; The Horrors Of The War Raging At The Very Gates Of Leipzig And Napoleon's Flight, The Advent Of The Preacher Who Was To Earn A Long Exile By Advising The Saxon Soldiers Not To Shoot Their Brethren. Events Provided Material For These And Many Another Score Of Prognostications: Only, Fortunately, No One Read Events Rightly At The Time, And Something Fresh Was Left For The Biographers To Expend Their Ingenuity Upon. [more]

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John F. Runciman Richard Wagner Composer Of Operas

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To Bayreuth again, through dirty, dusty, nasty-smelling, unromantic Germany, along the banks of that shabby—genteel river known as [more]

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Richard Wagner My Life, Volume II

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre [more]

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Richard Wagner My Life, Volume I

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre [more]

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Richard Wagner My Life, Volume Ii

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre 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 revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). [more]

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