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    Mein Leben (German for "My Life") is the autobiography of the composer Richard Wagner, covering the years from his birth in 1813 to 1864. On 17 July 1865...
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  • Mein Leben (German, 'My Life') may refer to: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1868) Mein Leben (Wagner), Richard Wagner (1880) Johann Gottfried...
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    and Wagner took part in his performances. In his autobiography Mein Leben Wagner recalled once playing the part of an angel. In late 1820, Wagner was...
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    Winifred Marjorie Wagner (née Williams; 23 June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was the English-born wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, and ran the...
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    Parsifal (redirect from Parsifal (Wagner))
    Wagners were still living at Zeltweg 13 in Zürich. If the prose sketch which Wagner mentions in Mein Leben was accurately dated (and most of Wagner's...
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    philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was one of Wagner's closest acolytes, and proof-read Wagner's autobiography Mein Leben (My Life). It may have been this closeness...
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  • My Life may refer to: Mein Leben (Wagner) (My Life), by Richard Wagner, 1870 My Life (Clinton autobiography), by Bill Clinton, 2004 My Life (Meir autobiography)...
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    Hoftheater Dresden in 1843. Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography Mein Leben that he had been inspired to write the opera following a stormy sea crossing...
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    Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, with music and text by Richard Wagner (WWV 70 in the catalogue of the composer's works). It is based on two German...
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    Ludwig Geyer (category Wagner family)
    Avenarius. Later in life, in the course of preparing his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner received from his sister Cäcilie a cache of letters written by Geyer...
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  • (Can the Envious Ever Be Truly Happy?) Über Stimmungen, 1864 (On Moods) Mein Leben, 1864 (My Life) Homer und die klassische Philologie, 1868 (Homer and the...
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    constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of...
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    defeats Telramund but spares his life ("Durch Gottes Sieg ist jetzt dein Leben mein"). Taking Elsa by the hand, he declares her innocent. The crowd exits...
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    Francesca Gaetana Cosima Wagner (née Liszt; 24 December 1837 – 1 April 1930) was the daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German...
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    Tristan und Isolde (category Operas by Richard Wagner)
    influence on later German literature. According to his autobiography, Mein Leben, Wagner decided to dramatise the Tristan legend after his friend, Karl Ritter...
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    Rienzi (category Operas by Richard Wagner)
    fearful of the audience departing, Wagner stopped the clock above the stage. In his later memoirs, Mein Leben, Wagner recalled: No subsequent experience...
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    Siegfried Helferich Richard Wagner (6 June 1869 – 4 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer...
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    is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend,...
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  • German. Ulrich Wickert [de]: "Maria zu lieben ist allzeit mein Sinn". In: Geist und Leben 56 (1983), Nr. 3, ISSN 0016-5921, pp. 214–224. In German. "Maria...
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    Richard Wagner's works for the stage, representing more than 50 years of creative life, comprise his 13 completed operas and a similar number of failed...
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    performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and promoted the idea of a special festival...
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    Theodor Uhlig (category Richard Wagner)
    Lohengrin for piano. Uhlig defended Wagner in magazine articles and reviews; Wagner wrote of him in his autobiography Mein Leben that he grasped with clear understanding...
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  • Meanwhile, Wagner begins dictating his autobiography Mein Leben, and his friend Gottfried Semper made the first plans for the opera house that Wagner had planned...
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    The Wagner tuba is a four-valve brass instrument commissioned by and named after Richard Wagner. It combines technical features of both standard tubas...
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    According to the composer's own account – as related in his autobiography Mein Leben – it was after the February Revolution that he began to sketch a play...
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    The Case of Wagner (German: Der Fall Wagner) is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1888. Subtitled "A Musician's Problem"...
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  • The Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (Catalogue of Wagner's Works), abbreviated WWV, is an index and musicological guide to the 113 musical compositions and works...
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    contemporary language as Jewishness in Music), is an essay by composer Richard Wagner which criticizes the influence of Jews and their "essence" on European art...
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    86B, is the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed...
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    Wagner and Gudrun Wagner (née Armann), great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, and great-great granddaughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Wagner...
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