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RICHARD WAGNER
b. 1813 Leipzig, Germany
d. 1883 Venice, Italy
Romantic Composer
Wagner’s music is sometimes so complex, it almost breaks
out of Bach’s system.
Wagner is mostly known for his operas.
When he died, there were more than 10,000
books already written about him.
Some of his operas:
The Flying Dutchman
Tannhauser
Tristan and Isolde
The Master Singers of Nuremburg
Parsifal
Wagner’s famous set of operas:
The Ring of the Nibelung
contains the operas:
1. Das Rheingold
2. Die Valkerie
3. Siegfried
4. Twilight of the Gods
Wagner listening test!
1. Ride of the Valkerie (from the opera Die Valkerie)
2. Liebestod (translation: love-death) from Tristan and
Isolde