| rdfs:comment | - Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813, in Leipzig, Germany, and went on to become one of the world's most influential and controversial composers. Wagner was famous for both his complex operas, such as the four-part, 18-hour Ring Cycle, as well as for his anti-semitic writings. The Ring Cycle was ahead of its time in that it combined literature, visuals and music in a way that would anticipate the future of film. Film composers, including John Williams, were inspired by Wagner's use of leitmotifs.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22. toukokuuta 1813 – 13. helmikuuta 1883) oli saksalainen säveltäjä, kapellimestari musiikkiteoreetikko ja esseisti. Hänen merkittävyytensä säveltäjänä perustuu pitkälti oopperoihin.
- Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer. His compositions "Wagner: Szene 3: 'Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater (Die Walküre - Erster Tag des Bühnenfestspiels "Der Ring des Nibelungen"/Erster Aufzug)" and "Wagner: Trauermarsch (Götterdämmerung - Dritter Tag des Bühnenfestspiels "Der Ring des Nibelungen"/Dritter Aufzug)" are featured in Captain America: The First Avenger. His composition "Ride of the Valkyries" is featured in the video game The Incredible Hulk. He is mentioned in the comic book Captain America: First Vengeance.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor, who is primarily known for his operas. He 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.
- Wagner was said to have composed the Ring cycle, which took nine hours to watch in one sitting. Wagner also composed the Bridal Chorus, which was heard in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" and the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Course: Oblivion" ; he also created the opera Tristan and Isolde, whose title appeared on a banner in VOY: "Future's End, Part II".
- Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer best remembered for writing a number of operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his works, making him the sole creator of the characters and stories found within.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 e mayo e 1813, Leipzig, Raino e Sajonia, Conferación der Rin – 13 e frebero e 1883, Venecia, Italia) jue un componeor, diret·tor d'orquesta, puéta y teórico mursical alemán. Su jigura ha pasao a la posterïá preinciparmente po sus óperas (tamién calificás como "dramas mursicales") en las qui, a diferencia d'otros jrandes componeores, asume tamién l'escenografía y'er llibreto.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner (ur. 22 maja 1813 w Lipsku, zm. 13 lutego 1883 w Wenecji) – kompozytor niemiecki, poeta i teoretyk sztuki, jest uznawany za twórcę nowej koncepcji dzieła scenicznego – dramatu muzycznego, łączącego w integralną całość różne dziedziny sztuki. Jego charyzmatyczna osobowość zapewniała mu po tylu samo gorących zwolenników (Adolf Hitler), co zaciekłych przeciwników (Eva Braun).
- Richard Wagner (1813-1883), plus grand opérateur allemand du XIXe siècle et ultime rival de Friedrich Nietzsche au bobsleigh.
- Richard Wagner ist ein deutscher Komponist, der von 1813 bis 1883 sein Unwesen trieb und dessen Ring des Nibelungen noch heute in vielen Opernhäusern dieser Welt herumspukt. thumb|right|Angela und Bruce Willis auf dem Weg zum Festspielhaus in Bayreuth - da versagt jedes Deo! thumb|right|Angela mit somnambulen Blick nach der einwöchigen Aufführung Der Hang zum Größenwahn ist bei diesem Komponisten eindeutig diagnostiziert worden und seine Opernwerke dauern selten kürzer als 1 Woche, weswegen alle Gesangspartien mindestens dreifach besetzt werden müssen, damit die Sänger sich im Schichtbetrieb abwechseln können.
- Ebbe un'infanzia infelice, segnata dalla morte prima del padre naturale, e poi anche di tutti gli altri padri sostitutivi che la madre s'affannava a procurargli. Ciò fu la causa dell'incrinamento del rapporto tra il giovane Wagner e la madre, la quale, dovendo decidere fra il benestare dei propri amanti e la compagnia del figlio, non esitò a spedirlo sotto la tutela di oscuri parenti in Polonia. Il piccolo Riccardo, mal adattandosi al materno decreto, si ostinava dapprincipio a tornare a casa per ogni occasione: una volta aveva dimenticato il clarinetto, un'altra volta aveva finito l'inchiostro, a volte aveva perso la merenda o si era scordato di fare la pipì. Quando una volta tornò a piedi a casa dalla Polonia perché gli serviva una tazzina di zucchero per fare le frittelle, la madre deci
- 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 always wrote the scenario and libretto for his works himself.
- Wagner came from a theatrical family. "Showbiz is in my blood" he used to say all through his life. At the age of seven he appeared as "Little Dick and Frou-Frou", a vaudeville routine involving a stuffed reindeer, on the same bill as his uncle Jake Meyerbeer. By the age of fiteen he had been taken under the wing of Franz Liszt, conductor of the Vallée Doberman theatre in Linz.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was a German composer, conductor, theater director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works. Wagner expressed extensive racist sentiments in his life. He wrote several tracts denouncing the influence of Jews on German music. A half-century after his death, the German Nazi Party appropriated Wagner's music, due in part to his simultaneous German nationlism and implied anti-Semitism.
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| abstract | - Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was a German composer, conductor, theater director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works. Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for contrapuntal texture, rich chromaticism, harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with particular characters, locales or plot elements. Wagner pioneered advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, which greatly influenced the development of European classical music. Wagner expressed extensive racist sentiments in his life. He wrote several tracts denouncing the influence of Jews on German music. A half-century after his death, the German Nazi Party appropriated Wagner's music, due in part to his simultaneous German nationlism and implied anti-Semitism.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813, in Leipzig, Germany, and went on to become one of the world's most influential and controversial composers. Wagner was famous for both his complex operas, such as the four-part, 18-hour Ring Cycle, as well as for his anti-semitic writings. The Ring Cycle was ahead of its time in that it combined literature, visuals and music in a way that would anticipate the future of film. Film composers, including John Williams, were inspired by Wagner's use of leitmotifs.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22. toukokuuta 1813 – 13. helmikuuta 1883) oli saksalainen säveltäjä, kapellimestari musiikkiteoreetikko ja esseisti. Hänen merkittävyytensä säveltäjänä perustuu pitkälti oopperoihin.
- Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer. His compositions "Wagner: Szene 3: 'Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater (Die Walküre - Erster Tag des Bühnenfestspiels "Der Ring des Nibelungen"/Erster Aufzug)" and "Wagner: Trauermarsch (Götterdämmerung - Dritter Tag des Bühnenfestspiels "Der Ring des Nibelungen"/Dritter Aufzug)" are featured in Captain America: The First Avenger. His composition "Ride of the Valkyries" is featured in the video game The Incredible Hulk. He is mentioned in the comic book Captain America: First Vengeance.
- 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 always wrote the scenario and libretto for his works himself. Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their contrapuntal texture, rich chromaticism, harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with specific characters, locales, or plot elements. Wagner pioneered advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, which greatly influenced the development of European classical music. He transformed musical thought through his idea of Gesamtkunstwerk ("total artwork"), the synthesis of all the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, epitomized by his monumental four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876). Wagner even went so far as to build his own opera-house to try to stage these works as he had imagined them.
- Wagner came from a theatrical family. "Showbiz is in my blood" he used to say all through his life. At the age of seven he appeared as "Little Dick and Frou-Frou", a vaudeville routine involving a stuffed reindeer, on the same bill as his uncle Jake Meyerbeer. By the age of fiteen he had been taken under the wing of Franz Liszt, conductor of the Vallée Doberman theatre in Linz. His first self-produced show Der Fliegende Hollander (Call me a Dutchman) did well in its off-Broadway run (some way off Broadway as it was in Germany) but there was a serious falling out with choreographer Wilhelmina von Bülow before the end of the run and Wagner peremptorily cut all the tap-dance numbers. "You think this going to be some fancy classical opry or somepin Dick?" she recalls asking him in her memoirs. "My shows gonna be high-tone, no schmaltz, no schlock." he replied, and as success strengthened his ambitions he tried to raise the tone of his productions, for instance replacing the saxophone solo in The Valkyries with a cor-anglais, and dropping the Sand-Dance, one of the most popular numbers, from Tristan and Mitzi, which he later renamed Tristan and Chantelle to make it sound more French. Wagner had a great love of everything French, and dreamed of one of his shows transferring to Paris, but the Paris scene was then dominated by Italian operators like "Big Giaccomo" Rossini, Vince Bellini and "Il Gatto" Donizetti who made sure he never got the bookings after his second show Tannhäuser (Dancehall Days) was panned as "too Germanic". Wagner had not helped himself by taking out the main comedy character, Fritz the Juggler, whose backchat in Act 2 had had Leipzig in stitches. "We used to say", recalls Morrie Wurtzberg one of Wagner's stage-directors, "It can't fail, its a Dick Wagner show!" but after Dick started these fancy ideas of hundred-piece orchestras and underwater preludes, we started saying that may be OK for Europe but Broadway's looking for colour, pizzazz, dancers and laughs. Sure, Dick, you want to do operetta, we'd say, but don't lose the sparkle." Wagner partly took this criticism on board and hired the joke-writer Art Schopenhauer to lighten up his next big show, which he planned as a frothy comedy, but Götterdämmerung (The Dame from the Gutter) went over budget and there were problems with the censors over Brunnhilde's bathroom immersion scene. Eventually it waited years for a full-scale production, and Wagner's long-time rival Joe Brahms said after seeing Act 1 "They should build a special theater for this one - miles from anywhere!" In his old age Wagner returned to his roots and helped the careers of slapstick act Bruckner and Mahler, two old vaudevillians who based their act on familiar Wagner numbers interspersed with their own material. Bruckner was the straight-man, Mahler livened it up with a trombone.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor, who is primarily known for his operas. He 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.
- Wagner was said to have composed the Ring cycle, which took nine hours to watch in one sitting. Wagner also composed the Bridal Chorus, which was heard in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" and the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Course: Oblivion" ; he also created the opera Tristan and Isolde, whose title appeared on a banner in VOY: "Future's End, Part II".
- Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer best remembered for writing a number of operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his works, making him the sole creator of the characters and stories found within.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 e mayo e 1813, Leipzig, Raino e Sajonia, Conferación der Rin – 13 e frebero e 1883, Venecia, Italia) jue un componeor, diret·tor d'orquesta, puéta y teórico mursical alemán. Su jigura ha pasao a la posterïá preinciparmente po sus óperas (tamién calificás como "dramas mursicales") en las qui, a diferencia d'otros jrandes componeores, asume tamién l'escenografía y'er llibreto.
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner (ur. 22 maja 1813 w Lipsku, zm. 13 lutego 1883 w Wenecji) – kompozytor niemiecki, poeta i teoretyk sztuki, jest uznawany za twórcę nowej koncepcji dzieła scenicznego – dramatu muzycznego, łączącego w integralną całość różne dziedziny sztuki. Jego charyzmatyczna osobowość zapewniała mu po tylu samo gorących zwolenników (Adolf Hitler), co zaciekłych przeciwników (Eva Braun).
- Richard Wagner (1813-1883), plus grand opérateur allemand du XIXe siècle et ultime rival de Friedrich Nietzsche au bobsleigh.
- Ebbe un'infanzia infelice, segnata dalla morte prima del padre naturale, e poi anche di tutti gli altri padri sostitutivi che la madre s'affannava a procurargli. Ciò fu la causa dell'incrinamento del rapporto tra il giovane Wagner e la madre, la quale, dovendo decidere fra il benestare dei propri amanti e la compagnia del figlio, non esitò a spedirlo sotto la tutela di oscuri parenti in Polonia. Il piccolo Riccardo, mal adattandosi al materno decreto, si ostinava dapprincipio a tornare a casa per ogni occasione: una volta aveva dimenticato il clarinetto, un'altra volta aveva finito l'inchiostro, a volte aveva perso la merenda o si era scordato di fare la pipì. Quando una volta tornò a piedi a casa dalla Polonia perché gli serviva una tazzina di zucchero per fare le frittelle, la madre decise di sbarazzarsi di lui una volta per tutte. Condottolo al limitare del bosco all’imbrunire, gli bendò gli occhi con la scusa di voler giocare a rimpiattino e, dopo averlo fatto girare su se stesso un numero sufficiente di volte, si dileguò nella folta boscaglia. Il povero Wagner, superato lo stordimento iniziale, raggiunse dopo lungo et confuso peregrinare un convento, dove ricevette asilo. Venne mandato a scuola dai pii confratelli, e passò nel dolce nido gli anni più gai della sua vita. Instaurò ben presto un rapporto di profonda amicizia con un compagnuccio di classe, anch'egli orfano e ospite dei monaci: Itolfo Adler. Dapprincipio il due fanciulli usavano scambiarsi piccole note durante le lezioni. A seguito alcuni frammenti giunti fino a noi: Wagner: "Hasst du auch Juden?" Traduzione: "Anche a te stanno simpatici gli ebrei?" Adler: "Ach, Jawohl!!" Trad: Ah, ma certo! Il comune interesse per quest'affascinante popolo li portò a passare dolci ore nella biblioteca del convento, dove ricercavano informazioni sui loro usi e costumi. Con l'arrivo della pubertà il loro interesse per l'antropologia si acuì ulteriormente, tanto che non di rado passavano nella biblioteca nottate intere, a nutrirsi di sapere. I due fanciulli non erano tuttavia insensibili al fascino dell'arte; mentre uno si dedicava a dipingere ritratti dell'altro, l'altro componeva sonetti in onore del primo. Nacque così, al termine di un felice scambio di idee sulla cultura semita, la prima composizione impegnata di Riccardo, il sonetto "Für Itolfo". Ne riportiamo il testo integrale: "Itolfo, dein Penis ist so lang, es könnte fast ein Meter sein und spritze so viel Sperma wie es rein passen kann." Trad: "Itolfo, se solo le tue Pene, lungamente sofferte, io potessi alleviare, la Speme nel mio cuore giammai non cederà." Il dolce idillo finì con il termine degli studi; gli affiatati compagni di gioco vennero separati. Mentre Itolfo intraprese la carriera militare, Ricchio si risolse per il conservatorio. Grande influenza ebbe per Wagner in questi anni l’ascolto dell’opera Fidelio di Beethoven, nella quale una donna si traveste da uomo per poter visitare il marito in carcere. La storia accese grandemente la fantasia del genio della musica, influenzando la sua produzione seguente e distruggendo affatto ogni scrupolo morale rimastogli. Si dice che in quel periodo Wagner vagasse per la città in abiti femminili, affermando furbescamente che "Se può farlo Beethoven posso farlo anch'io".
- Richard Wagner ist ein deutscher Komponist, der von 1813 bis 1883 sein Unwesen trieb und dessen Ring des Nibelungen noch heute in vielen Opernhäusern dieser Welt herumspukt. thumb|right|Angela und Bruce Willis auf dem Weg zum Festspielhaus in Bayreuth - da versagt jedes Deo! thumb|right|Angela mit somnambulen Blick nach der einwöchigen Aufführung Der Hang zum Größenwahn ist bei diesem Komponisten eindeutig diagnostiziert worden und seine Opernwerke dauern selten kürzer als 1 Woche, weswegen alle Gesangspartien mindestens dreifach besetzt werden müssen, damit die Sänger sich im Schichtbetrieb abwechseln können. Die Musik Richard Wagners wird als sehr schwer und düster beschrieben. Wabernde Klangflächen und Leitmotive sind vorherrschend und können zu lebensgefährlicher Langweile, manischer Depression und Blumenkohlohren führen.
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