• Richard Wagner Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner Deathridge J., Geck M. and Voss E. (1986). Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis...
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  • Richard Wagner. List of works for the stage by Richard Wagner The numbers given for Richard Wagner's works are from the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV)....
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    E. (1986). Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis (WWV): Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen ("Catalogue of Wagner's Works: Catalogue...
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    period Wagner entertained ambitions as a playwright. His first creative effort, listed in the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis (the standard listing of Wagner's works)...
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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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    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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    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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    The German composer Richard Wagner was a controversial figure during his lifetime, and has continued to be so after his death. Even today he is associated...
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    The family of the composer Richard Wagner: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary ∞ 1798 Johanna Rosine Pätz (1778–1848), daughter...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • list of cinema films which have music by Richard Wagner in their soundtracks (other than films of Wagner's operas themselves). Casual references (and use...
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    Ride of the Valkyries (category Compositions by Richard Wagner)
    Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas constituting Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Performed in 1921 by the American Symphony Orchestra...
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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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    Wolfgang Wagner (30 August 1919 – 21 March 2010) was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival...
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  • Wieland der Schmied (libretto) (category Libretti by Richard Wagner)
    Richard Wagner for an opera libretto based on the Germanic legend of Wayland Smith. It is listed in the Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis as WWV82. Wagner was motivated...
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  • Bridal Chorus (category Compositions by Richard Wagner)
    "Treulich geführt") from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretto, is a march played for the bride's entrance...
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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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  • Wieland Wagner (5 January 1917 – 17 October 1966) was a German opera director, and grandson of Richard Wagner. As co-director of the Bayreuth Festival...
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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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    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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  • Liebestod (category Compositions by Richard Wagner)
    final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. It is the climactic end of the opera, as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead...
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    WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken...
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    Parsifal (redirect from Parsifal (Wagner))
    music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century...
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  • Wagner is a 1983 television miniseries on the life of Richard Wagner with Richard Burton in the title role. It was directed by Tony Palmer and written...
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    Siegfried Idyll (category Compositions by Richard Wagner)
    The Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103, by Richard Wagner is a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra. Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to...
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  • philosophical book by Arthur Schopenhauer Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis, an index to the musical works of Richard Wagner Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya, a Sri Lanakan...
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    of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works. It is the venue...
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