• Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843) WWV 69 (in English The Feast of Pentecost, "The Love-Meal of the Apostles") is a piece for orchestra and male choruses...
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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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    rarely performed are the American Centennial March (1876), and Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (The Love Feast of the Apostles), a piece for male choruses and...
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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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    special festival to showcase his own works, in particular his monumental cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal. Performances take place in a specially...
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    writings have achieved some notoriety, in particular, his essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (Jewishness in Music), a critical view on the influence of...
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    building was first opened for the premiere of the complete four-opera cycle of Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), from 13 to 17 August 1876...
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    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 device of the...
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    beginning with Das Rheingold on 13 August and ending with Götterdämmerung on 17 August. Opera stage director Anthony Freud stated that Der Ring des Nibelungen...
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    Times, 30 May 2013 "Das Highlight der Festspiele: Das Liebesverbot", Münchner Merkur, 9 July 2013 (in German) "ГЕЛИКОН-ОПЕРА: Das Liebesverbot". Archived...
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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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  • der Anfänger. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. Jadassohn, Salomon. 1899d. Das Wesen der Melodie in der Tonkunst. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. Das Tonbewusstsein:...
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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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  • Non-operatic music Symphony in C major (1832) Polonia Overture (1836) Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843) Faust Overture (1844, rev. 1855) Wesendonck Lieder (1858)...
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    Wagner's objections, that the premieres of the two completed Ring operas, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, be given at once, in Munich, rather than as part...
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    volume of Der Salon. Other possible sources include Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's play Der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg and Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild...
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    Siegfried (opera) (category Der Ring des Nibelungen)
    fʀiːt] ), WWV 86C, is the third of the four epic music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It premiered...
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    Gedicht, nach der Abschrift des Vaticanischen Manuscriptes by Ferdinand Gloeckle. Mohr und Zimmer, Heidelberg 1813. Richard Wagner, Das braune Buch....
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    this realm that Tristan speaks of at the end of Act II ("Dem Land das Tristan meint, der Sonne Licht nicht scheint"). In Act III, Tristan rages against the...
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    Non-operatic music Symphony in C major (1832) Polonia Overture (1836) Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843) Faust Overture (1844, rev. 1855) Wesendonck Lieder (1858)...
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  • Geck M. and Voss E. (1986). Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV): Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen ("Catalogue of Wagner's...
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    players. Wagner commissioned the instrument for his four-part opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, where its purpose was to bridge the acoustical and textural...
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    "Abend am Meer" – text: Alfred Meissner 1897 "Schäfer und Schäferin" 1913 "Das Märchen vom dicken fetten Pfannekuchen", for solo voice and orchestra 1918...
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  • Non-operatic music Symphony in C major (1832) Polonia Overture (1836) Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843) Faust Overture (1844, rev. 1855) Wesendonck Lieder (1858)...
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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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    and opportunity to complete, build a theatre for, and stage his epic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. He had discontinued composing it at the end of Act II...
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    Non-operatic music Symphony in C major (1832) Polonia Overture (1836) Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843) Faust Overture (1844, rev. 1855) Wesendonck Lieder (1858)...
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    "The Artwork of the Future" (German: Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft) is a long essay written by Richard Wagner, first published in 1849 in Leipzig, in which...
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  • Opera House, 3 December 2014 Bronfen, Elisabeth, Liebestod und Femme fatale. Der Austausch sozialer Energien zwischen Oper, Literatur und Film, Frankfurt...
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    great-great granddaughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Wagner has staged Der fliegende Holländer in Würzburg and Lohengrin in Budapest. Her directorial...
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