Richard Wagner
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Saviour Machine...trilogy songs include power chords and thick riffs. Saviour Machine's classical music influences include the composers Richard Wagner, Carl Orff, Ludwig van Beethoven and Hector Berlioz. These influences are reminiscent in the choir, string... In this article: Saviour Machine, Eric Clayton, Legend, Jeff Clayton, West Indian Girl, Deliverance, Book of Revelation, and New Union |
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Ernest Reyer
The music of Sigurd, however, is quite unlike the music of Wagner. While Reyer admired Wagner, he developed his music more along the lines of his mentor, Hector Berlioz. Listening to Sigurd, one cannot help but hear echoes of Les Troyens or...
In this article: Ernest Reyer, Sigurd, Hector Berlioz, Theophile Gautier, Marseille, Paris, and Gustave Flaubert
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Lucienne Breval
...Wagner's ''Parsifal (1914). Her other notable roles at the Paris Opera included Brunnhilde in Richard Wagner's Die Walkure (1893), Venus in Wagner's Tannhauser '' (1895), Marguerite in Hector Berlioz's ''La damnation de Faust (1897), and the...
In this article: Hippolyte et Aricie, Die Walkure, Europe, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Covent Garden, Paris, Neuilly-sur-Seine, and Opera-Comique
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Franz Liszt
...special occasions at the theatre. He gave lessons to a number of pianists, including the great virtuoso Hans von Bulow, who married Liszt's daughter Cosima in 1857 (before she later married Richard Wagner). He also wrote articles championing...
In this article: Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Budapest, and Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
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Richard Hol
...at Utrecht . His conservative music showed the influence of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as a conductor he offered Dutch audiences the modern music of Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner. Richard Hol...
In this article: Utrecht, Amsterdam, Johannes Verhulst, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, and Felix Mendelssohn
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Royal Philharmonic Society
...Ludwig Spohr, one of the first conductors to use a baton, Hector Berlioz, who conducted a concert of his works in 1853, Richard Wagner, who conducted the whole 1855 season of orchestral concerts, Arthur Sullivan, and Tchaikovsky , who...
In this article: Ludwig van Beethoven, London, Charles Halle, Nicolas Mori, Charles Santley, Johann Peter Salomon, Hector Berlioz, and Muzio Clementi
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Three Bs
...immediate and most energetic successor of Beethoven. Richard Wagner once proposed an alternate candidate for the third of the three ''B''s; this was Anton Bruckner, a devoted Wagnerian. That appellation never took, and few remember that...
In this article: Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Hector Berlioz, Schroeder, Peter Cornelius, New York, and Peanuts
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Richard Wagner
...for achieving orchestral unison. The central European conducting tradition which followed Wagner's ideas includes artists such as Hans von Bulow, Arthur Nikisch, Wilhelm Furtwangler and Herbert von Karajan. Wagner also made significant...
In this article: Wilhelm Richard Wagner, Ring, Parsifal, Ludwig Geyer, Bayreuth, Tristan und Isolde, Rienzi, and Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
...seen as the culmination of the Gluckian tradition. Though Gluck wrote no operas in German, his example influenced the German school of opera, particularly Weber and Wagner , whose concept of music drama was not so far removed from Gluck's own.
In this article: Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, Vienna, Metastasio, Paris, Antonio Salieri, Orfeo ed Euridice, Iphigenie en Tauride, Alceste, and Milan
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History of wind band
...all were key in the advancement of winds. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) contributed greatly to the advancement of winds in the orchestra, which inevitably advanced the growth of wind bands. Wagner utilized brass in new ways, even prompting...
In this article: Patrick S. Gilmore, John Philip Sousa, History, Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Gustav Holst, George Washington, and American Civil War
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (pronounced: /ˈvɑːɡnər/ or IPA: /ˈwæɡnər|/, ; 22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany – 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other opera composers, Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of 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.
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). To try to stage these works as he imagined them, Wagner built his own opera house, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
- Birth Date:
- May 22, 1813
- Birthplace:
- Leipzig, Germany
- Death Date:
- February 13, 1883
- Place of Death:
- Venice
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