Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly 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 Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo 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. He described this vision in a series of essays published 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). 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 centres, 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 (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg). Until his final years, Wagner's life was characterised by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors. His controversial writings on music, drama and politics have attracted extensive comment, notably, since the late 20th century, where they express antisemitic sentiments. The effect of his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century; his influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theatre. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Ride of the Valkyries
The Ride of the Valkyries
Wesendonk Lieder: Schmerzen
Die Walkure, Act III: Ride of the Valkyries
Tannhäuser: Overture
Siegfried Idyll
The Flying Dutchman
Lohengrin: Prelude
Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries
Prelude
Die Walküre, WWV 86B - Concert version / Dritter Aufzug: The Ride Of The Valkyries
Lohengrin Prelude To Act III
Die Walkure - Ride of the Valkyries (as heard in Apocalypse Now)
Overture
Rienzi
Das Rheingold: Prelude
Das Rheingold: Einzug der Götter in Walhall
Der fliegende Hollander: Overture
Wagner: Das Liebesverbot: Verweiler hier, hier muss er kommen!
Die Walkure - Ride of the Valkyries
Parsifal: Prelude
Entry Of The Gods Into Valhalla
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86b, Act 3: Ride of the Valkyries
Tristan & Isolde: Einleitung
Lohengrin
Die Walkürie, WWV 86b, Act III: Ride of the Valkyries
Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries
Das Rheingold: Vorspiel
Vorspiel
Siegfried's Death and Funeral March
Tannhauser Overture
Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Prelude
Act III
Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Overture
Act I
Tristan Und Isolde : Prelude To Act I / Isolde's Liebestod
Tannhäuser, WWV 70 / Act 2: Dich, teure Halle, grüß ich wieder
Gotterdammerung, Act III: Siegfried's Funeral March
Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Overture (Andante maestoso - Allegro)
Die Walküre, WWV 86B - Concert version / Dritter Aufzug: The Ride of the Valkyres
Ouverture
Walhall aus dem Ring des Nibelungen, S. 449
O Fortuna (Excalibur theme)
Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Vorspiel
Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
Wagner: Das Rheingold: Dem Haupt fugt - Alberich
The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 3
Tannhauser: Overture
Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 / Act 3: Prelude - Live

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