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    "Das Judenthum in der Musik" (German for Judaism in Music, but perhaps more accurately understood in contemporary language as Jewishness in Music), is...
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    some notoriety, in particular, his essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (Jewishness in Music), a critical view on the influence of Jews in German culture and...
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    Richard Wagner (category German expatriates in Switzerland)
    including a centennial edition in German edited by Dieter Borchmeyer (which, however, omitted the essay "Das Judenthum in der Musik" and Mein Leben). The English...
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  • Wagner (film) (category Films set in the 19th century)
    composer Giacomo Meyerbeer about his anti-semitic essay Das Judenthum in der Musik. After the failure in Paris, Wagner travels around Europe to Switzerland...
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    Wagner's anti-Jewish article "Das Judenthum in der Musik", published under the pseudonym K. Freigedank ('Freethought') in volume 33, no. 19 (3 September...
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    Das Rheingold (pronunciation; The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen...
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    Wagner to spark off his attack on Meyerbeer, Das Judenthum in der Musik (Jewishness in Music) (see below). In 1911, the composer Charles Villiers Stanford...
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    October 2019). "Minden / Stadttheater: Der Ring des Nibelungen – jetzt das gesamte Bühnenfestspiel". Der Neue Merker (in German). Retrieved 13 September 2017...
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  • antisemitism" – published Das Judenthum in der Musik (roughly "Jewishness in Music") under a pseudonym in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. The essay began as...
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    Bayreuth Festspielhaus (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    December 2009. Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, the first two operas of the cycle, had premiered individually at the National Theatre in Munich in 1869 and 1870...
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    Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The central theme is redemption...
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  • by Richard Wagner and Their Sources"). Mainz, London, & New York: Schott Musik International. Kirby, F. E. (1997). Music for Piano: A Short History. Amadeus...
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    Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love, WWV 38), is an early comic opera in two acts by Richard Wagner, with the libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare's...
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  • Bridal Chorus (category Compositions in B-flat major)
    world. In English-speaking countries, it is generally known as "Here Comes the Bride" or "Wedding March", but "wedding march" refers to any piece in march...
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    Ride of the Valkyries (category Der Ring des Nibelungen)
    Ritt der Walküren) refers to the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas constituting Richard Wagner's Der Ring des...
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    His first commercial success came in 1842 with Rienzi, by which time he had completed Der fliegende Holländer, in which for the first time he used the...
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    to the memory of Clement Harris] Symphony in C major (1925, rev. 1927). (First version used the Prelude to Der Friedensengel as the slow movement, whereas...
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    Bayreuth Festival (category Classical music festivals in Germany)
    showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal. Performances take place in a specially designed theatre...
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    Literatur. Translated by P., Anton. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag. Wagner, Das Judenthum in der Musik 1850. Poewe, Karla; Hexham, Irving (2009). "The Völkisch Modernist...
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    with faint praise, three years after his death, in an anti-Jewish pamphlet Das Judenthum in der Musik: [Mendelssohn] has shown us that a Jew may have...
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    Parsifal (category Holy Grail in fiction)
    Gregor-Dellins Wagner-Biographie". In Heinz-Klaus Metzger; Rainer Riehn (eds.). Richard Wagner: Parsifal. Musik-Konzepte. Vol. 25. Munich: Text & Kritik...
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    cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, which was based on Nordic mythology. He was attempting to perfect the Valhalla motive, as this was the first opera in which...
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    Victoria, Princess Royal (category Deaths from breast cancer in Germany)
    rejected antisemitism. In a letter to her mother, Victoria harshly criticised the essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (Judaism in Music) by Richard Wagner...
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    Winifred Wagner (category Women in Nazi Germany)
    and ran the Bayreuth Festival after her husband's death in 1930 until the end of World War II in 1945. She was a friend and supporter of Adolf Hitler, himself...
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    title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, "Tannhäuser and the Minnesängers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, with music...
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    the festival, which was released under the title Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik (The Transformation of the World into Music). "Former Bayreuth director...
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  • Heinrich (1925–30). Das Meisterwerk in der Musik, 3 vols. Munich: Drei Masken Verlag. English translation, as The Masterwork in Music: A Yearbook, edited by...
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    Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) is an 1842 opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by...
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    Siegfried (opera) (category Der Ring des Nibelungen)
    autograph manuscript of the work is preserved in the Richard Wagner Foundation. Structure of the Ring cycle Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung...
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    Johanna Rosine Pätz (1778–1848), daughter of a baker (after being widowed, in 1814 she became the partner of the painter, actor and writer Ludwig Geyer...
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