• meine Freunde", usually referred to in English by its translated title (from German) of "A Communication to My Friends", is an extensive autobiographical...
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    came to be dissatisfied with such a format as a means of artistic expression. He expressed this clearly in his essay "A Communication to My Friends" (1851)...
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    in "A Communication to My Friends", to present the first complete cycle at a special festival with a new, dedicated, opera house. Minna died of a heart...
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    purposes in his essay "A Communication to My Friends": "I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas, preceded by a lengthy Prelude (Vorspiel)"...
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    his purpose in his essay "A Communication to My Friends": "I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas, preceded by a lengthy prelude (Vorspiel)...
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    (ed.). My Life. Translated by Gray, Andrew. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80481-6. Wagner, Richard (1993). "A Communication to My Friends". The Art-Work...
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    minutes, begins in the prelude to the third act, building up successive layers of accompaniment until the curtain rises to reveal a mountain peak where four...
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    to Norway shortly before the first production staged in Dresden and conducted by himself in January 1843. In his essay "A Communication to My Friends"...
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    Pine Paris: The Hours Press, 1931 A Communication to My Friends London: Nonesuch Press, 1933 Diarmuid and Grania: A Play in Three Acts Co-written with...
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    that My aunt Friedelind was outraged when my grandmother again slowly blossomed as the first lady of right-wing groups and received political friends such...
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  • Problems playing this file? See media help. Eight women then sing a blessing to a separate melody. The chorus then repeats the first section, gradually...
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    Mitteilung an meine Freunde (1851) (A Communication to my Friends) that Meistersinger was to be a comic opera to follow a tragic opera, i.e. Tannhäuser. Just...
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    Rienzi as an embarrassment; in his 1852 autobiographical essay, "A Communication to My Friends", he wrote "I saw it only in the shape of 'five acts', with...
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    the whole work. The title is a translation into German of the Old Norse phrase Ragnarök, which in Norse mythology refers to a prophesied war among various...
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  • E. (1997). Music for Piano: A Short History. Amadeus Press. Millington, Barry (2001). The Wagner Compendium: A Guide To Wagner's Life and Music. Thames...
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    midway between that of a euphonium and a horn. The Wagner tuba also has a bore size similar to that of a cornophone, which results in a similar sound. The...
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    directly under the stage. This makes communication with the conductor vital as most of the players are unable to see or hear the singers, but creates...
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  • Revolution" "The Artwork of the Future" "Autobiographic Sketch" "A Communication to My Friends" "Das Judenthum in der Musik (Jewishness in Music)" Leubald...
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  • The following is a sortable list of cinema films which have music by Richard Wagner in their soundtracks (other than films of Wagner's operas themselves)...
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    Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary ∞ 1798 Johanna Rosine Pätz (1778–1848), daughter of a baker (after being widowed, in 1814 she...
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  • of Wagner's Works), abbreviated WWV, is an index and musicological guide to the 113 musical compositions and works for the stage by Richard Wagner. It...
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    represented as a possible "philosophical effect," and Wagner is ironically compared to Georges Bizet. However, Nietzsche presents Wagner as only a particular...
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    103, by Richard Wagner is a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra. Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima,...
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    a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930...
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  • to define his operas. Mundt formulated his definition explicitly in contrast to intermezzo, or a piece that sits in between dramatic entities. To this...
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    saying he had thought to himself, "In fact it is all as far-fetched as my love affairs, for it was not a Good Friday at all – just a pleasant mood in Nature...
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    A Communication to My Friends (1851) and My Life (1870–1880). In the latter he describes the work as "in a light neo-French style," which he began to...
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  • his book, My Life with Wagner: the chord "is the password, the cipher for all modern music. It is a chord that does not conform to any key, a chord on...
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    accustomed so soon to our separation? How can I bear your absence? You have become part of me, and without you I feel in all my limbs as if a part of me were...
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  • Friends with benefits relationships (FWB or FWBR) is a term commonly used to refer to a relationship that is sexual without being romantic. Typically...
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