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    Die Laune des Verliebten (The Mood of the One in Love) was Richard Wagner's first attempt at an opera project. Written in about 1830, when Wagner was 17...
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    writing words and music, since lost, for his first opera attempt, Die Laune des Verliebten. During the subsequent decade he began several more opera projects...
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    pastoral opera based on Goethe's Die Laune des Verliebten (The Infatuated Lover's Caprice), written at the age of 17, Die Hochzeit (The Wedding), on which...
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  • oder die Lehre von den tonalen Funktionen der Akkorde, second edition. London: Augener; New York: G. Schirmer. Riemann, Hugo. 1905. "Das Problem des harmonischen...
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    Ride of the Valkyries (category Der Ring des Nibelungen)
    the third and last act of Die Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Performed in...
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    Die Walküre (German pronunciation: [diː valˈkyːʁə]; The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's...
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    Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works...
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  • operas Die Laune des Verliebten (1830) Die Hochzeit (1832) Männerlist größer als Frauenlist (1838) Wieland der Schmied (1850; text only) Die Sieger (1858;...
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    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. Only the...
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    Die Feen (German: [diː feːn], The Fairies) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. The German libretto was written by the composer after Carlo Gozzi's...
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    of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It received its premiere...
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    Siegfried (opera) (category Der Ring des Nibelungen)
    of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered at the Bayreuth...
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  • in the Bayreuth programs with choreography for Parsifal, Tannhäuser, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, but in fact she assisted him in all of his Bayreuth...
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    and that she had discussed with Hitler the saving of some individuals. She died in Überlingen, one of the best preserved medieval sites, on the shore of...
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    He conducted the premieres of two Wagner operas, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, in 1865 and 1868 respectively; both were immensely...
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    Grosse/Norbert Götz (ed.), Die Meistersinger und Richard Wagner. Die Rezeptionsgeschichte einer Oper von 1868 bis heute, »Ausstellungskatalog des Germanischen Nationalmuseums...
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    vocal score for Tristan und Isolde, and by 1862 he was making a fair copy of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. A social relationship developed, and during the...
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  • 258. Joe and Gilman (2010), p. 258. Care (1978) Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried 1914 - 1975, filmportal.de website (in German), accessed...
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    operas Die Laune des Verliebten (1830) Die Hochzeit (1832) Männerlist größer als Frauenlist (1838) Wieland der Schmied (1850; text only) Die Sieger (1858;...
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  • operas Die Laune des Verliebten (1830) Die Hochzeit (1832) Männerlist größer als Frauenlist (1838) Wieland der Schmied (1850; text only) Die Sieger (1858;...
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    Wagner commissioned the instrument for his four-part opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, where its purpose was to bridge the acoustical and textural gap...
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    groups (castes in Die Sieger, the knights of the Grail in Parsifal) which were later explored in Parsifal were first introduced in Die Sieger. According...
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    what would become his magnum opus, the 16-hour long music drama Der Ring des Nibelungen, with which he intended to revitalize German art and society,...
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    satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski (Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski). This work shows early attempts at operatic styles...
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    with the 'black flag' that waves at the end I shall cover myself over – to die. By the end of 1854, Wagner had sketched out all three acts of an opera on...
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    Die Sieger (The Victors; WWV 89), is a draft sketch for an opera text by Richard Wagner. Die Sieger was drafted between 1856 and 1858, at a period when...
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    introduction, leading to several public protests at the first performances of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Wagner repeated similar views in later articles...
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    issued September 2013 Lucas Wiegelmann: "Mit den Förderzielen des Bundes nicht vereinbar". Die Welt, 24 June 2011 "Götterdämmerung". The Economist. 20 June...
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    operas Die Laune des Verliebten (1830) Die Hochzeit (1832) Männerlist größer als Frauenlist (1838) Wieland der Schmied (1850; text only) Die Sieger (1858;...
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    Ludwig Bechstein's 1835 anthology of legends Der Sagenschatz und die Sagenkreise des Thüringerlandes. As well as being the means by which Wagner first...
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