Richard Wagner

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Richard Wagner wanted to merge music, poetry and drama into a single total work of art and wrote the texts of his music dramas himself. He worked with leitmotifs, short themes that return with characters and ideas, and let the music flow on without separate numbers. The chord at the beginning of Tristan und Isolde, completed in 1859, does not resolve and unsettled harmony. In Bayreuth he had a theatre of his own built, where in 1876 the complete Ring des Nibelungen was heard.

Listening

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  Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel (Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler) · Richard Wagner, 1859
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  Die Walküre: Walkürenritt (Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti) · Richard Wagner, 1856
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  Tristan und Isolde: Isoldes Liebestod (Anna Netrebko, Riccardo Chailly) · Richard Wagner, 1859
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  Lohengrin: Vorspiel zum 3. Akt (Symphonieorchester des BR, Mariss Jansons) · Richard Wagner, 1848

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Mentioned in other articles

• Wagner and music drama GenreRichard Wagner no longer wanted opera made up of separate numbers, but a continuous music drama in which music, text and stage form a single whole.

See also

• Wagner and music drama
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Liszt
• Antonín Dvořák
• Gustav Mahler
• Richard Strauss
• Claude Debussy
• Arnold Schönberg