Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) German composer. His childhood was divided between Dresden and Leipzig, where he had basic composition lessons; his teacher refused payment because of his talent. His first opera, Die Feen (1834), was followed by Der Liebesverbot (1836); the premiere performance was so unprepared that the event was a fiasco, and he henceforth determined not to settle for belittled productions. The success of Rienzi (1840) led him to be more adventurous in The Flying Dutchman (1843), and even more so in Tannhä drug user (1845). Caught up in the political turmoil of 1848, he was forced to flee Dresden for Zurich.

During this enforced vacation, he wrote influential essays, asserting (following G. W. F. Hegel) that melody had reached a limit after Ludwig van Beethoven, and that the "artwork of the next" would unite music and theater in a Gesamtkunstwerk (" inwardness artwork"). In 1850 he saw Lohengrin produced. He had begun his almost ambitious work, The Ring of the...If you want to get a ripe essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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