Home  - Composers - Wagner Richard

Books Baby Camera Phones Computers Games DVD Electronics Kitchen Magazines Music Garden Software Tools Toys Video Apparel & Accessories Jewelry & Watches Musical Instruments Health & Personal Care Beauty Sports & Outdoors Office Products

e99.com Bookstore

Images

Newsgroups

21-40 of 79    Back | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | Next 20

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Wagner Richard:     more books (100)

Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans by Joachim Kohler, 2004-12-11 Wagner Androgyne by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, 1997-12-22 Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Round by M. Owen Lee, 2004-08-01 The Art-Work of the Future and Other Works by Richard Wagner, 1993-12-01 Richard Wagner And the Jews by Milton E. Brener, 2005-12-21 My Life, Volume 1 by Richard Wagner, 2010-04-02 My Life, Volume 1 by Richard Wagner, 2010-04-02 My Life, Vol. 2 (Facsimile Reprint Edition) by Richard Wagner, 2010-04-01 My Life, Vol. 1 (Facsimile Reprint Edition) by Richard Wagner, 2010-04-01 Wagner and Cinema Aspects of Wagner, Second Edition, revised and enlarged by Bryan Magee, 1988 Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love by Barry Emslie, 2010-03-18 Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand by Nicholas Vazsonyi, 2010-03-31 Wagner Without Fear:Learning to Love--and Even Enjoy--Opera's Most Demanding Genius by William Berger, 1998-09-29

lists with details

21. Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Wagner
    by Hannu Salmi; wagner Biography List of Operas by Tim Cordell; wagnerian Page by Karl Russwurm; richard wagner Web Site  
    http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/wagner.html

22. Richard Wagner
    Over seventy MIDI files, plus images, opera notes and links.  
    http://www.rwagner.net/e-frame.html

23. Richard Wagner (I)
    Filmography noting film and television renditions of his operas and the use of excerpts in these media plus biographical material. From the Internet Movie  
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003471/
    
    Extractions: Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP RICHARD... DVD VHS CD Not the ... IMDb Richard Wagner Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography publicity contact message board miscellaneous Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Date of Birth: 22 May Leipzig, Germany more Date of Death: 13 February , Venice, Italy (heart failure) more Trivia: Born at 4:0am-LMT more Jump to filmography as: Soundtrack Writer Composer Thanks Richard Wagner (I) has 1 in-development credit available on IMDbPro.com. To view these credits click here Soundtrack:

24. WildNaturePhotos, LLC
    WildNaturePhotos, Professional Wildlife and Nature Photography by Rich and Margie wagner.  
    http://www.wildnaturephotos.com/

25. Richard Wagner
    Libretti and premiere information, creators of roles, portrait, and links from Opera Glass.  
    http://opera.stanford.edu/Wagner/
    
    Extractions: Died: Venice, Italy, 13 Feb. 1883 The dates and locations are those of the premieres; when there was a substantial delay between composition and performance, the year of completion is also given. Revisions are listed separately. Parsifal (26.7.1882 Festspielhaus, Bayreuth) In addition to the libretti of all of his own operas, Wagner also supplied one libretto set by another composers: Bianca und Giuseppe set as Die Franzosen vor Nizza by Jan Bedrich Kittl (19.2.1848 Prague)

26. Richard Wagner - An Overview Of The Classical Composer
    The mfiles page for richard wagner, with biography, major works, links to related composers and the Bridal chorus Sheet Music, MIDI and MP3.  
    http://www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/Richard-Wagner.htm
    
    Extractions: Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) Most descriptions of Wagner the man do not paint a pretty picture. There are many reports of his extreme anti-semitism, massive ego-mania, wanton gambling and womanising, and his ruthless exploitation of anyone in order to achieve his ambitions. While these character traits severely taint any biography of Wagner, let's put them to one side, describe the key events in his life and concentrate on his musical development and his place in musical history. Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, and it is thought that his real father was not the man who gave him his surname (Karl Friedrich Wagner who died when Richard was 6 months old) but the actor Ludwig Geyer who was then to become Wagner's stepfather and influence his early development. Geyer knew the composer Weber, but it was his literary interest that drew Wagner initially towards Classical and Shakespearean drama. The young Richard was called Richard Geyer, but reverted to Richard Wagner a few years after the death of his stepfather, by which time he had discovered the world of music and Beethoven in particular. Wagner received very little formal musical education, yet with complete self-absorption threw himself into a musical career which involved conducting posts in opera houses while composing operas with his own libretti, frequently based on stories from German mythology. He was later to form a friendship with Nietzsche, with whom he shared certain ideas (some misguided certainly) including a desire to base writings on timeless allegorical myths.

27. Wagner
    Information about the composer s life and a listing of his opera s.  
    http://www.edinboro.edu/cwis/music/Cordell/comp-Wagner.html
    
    Extractions: Wagner was born in Leipzig on 22 May 1813. "Wagner's official father was the police actuary Carl Friedrich Wagner, but the boy's adoptive father, the actor-painter Ludwig Geyer, who took responsibilty for the child on Carl Friedrich's death in November 1813, may possibily have been the real father" (Sadie 1992, IV:1054) . The terror of war and invasion by foreign troops accompanied Wagner's first year, until "at last on 16 August, the child's christening, delayed by events of the war, was able to take place in the Thomaskirche, where he received the names Wilhelm Richard" (Westernhagen 1981, 6) He was an intelligent child who had an early interest in the theatre. Thanks to his stepfather Geyer, Wagner got to know Carl Maria von Weber. Wagner saw von Weber conduct Der Freischutz , which had a lasting impression on him. "What attracted him to the theatre was, by Wagner's own account, not so much the search for entertainment as the pleasurable excitement of a purely imaginary world" (Westernhagen 1981, 19)

28. Richard Wagner Zenith Of German Romanticism
    A brief biography of richard wagner, listing his major compositions and insights into his personality.  
    http://www.carolinaclassical.com/articles/wagner.html
    
    Extractions: Although he was undoubtedly the most controversial musical figure of the Nineteenth Century, Richard Wagner was a literary, philosophical and political activist whose contributions to the development of German Romanticism were unrivaled by any of his contemporaries. His life and works may be said to crown the musical achievements of German Romanticism, but they are simultaneously celebrated and condemned like the works of no other composer in music history. His music dramas are detested as much as they are worshiped in the world today, but even among those who damn Wagner as a human being, his genius as a composer is not denied. But in more recent days, with the widespread renaissance of tonality in serious music, many familiar sounds of Wagnerian origins are evident in new compositions heard at symphony concerts and on Hollywood sound tracks. It was not Wagner's style of vocal composition in his music dramas that has remained so influential, but his orchestral language of chromatic tension and release, his brilliant use of instrumental tone color, and his flair for dramatic effects balanced with his long, sensually serene harmonic progressions that have become a mainstay in the arsenal of modern composers. Wagner attended school in Dresden and then Leipzig. At age fifteen, he wrote a play, and at sixteen he composed his first music: two piano sonatas and a string quartet. In 1831 he attended Leipzig University, and he also studied piano and composition with the Cantor of St. Thomas Choir School, Christian Theodor Weinlig, but unlike many other prominent composers, he never became proficient on this or any other instrument. Wagner's formal training in music was brief, and he was largely a self-taught musician. He composed a symphony, and it was successfully performed in 1832. In 1833 he was employed as the chorus master at the Würzburg theater where he wrote the text and music of his first opera

29. Essentials Of Music - Composers
    It is telling that richard wagner s artistic beginnings lie in both music and drama. At the age of fifteen he wrote his first play and a year later his  
    http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/wagner.html
    
    Extractions: "True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression the orchestra." German opera composer, conductor and musical writer. Wagner changed the concept of opera by viewing it as a "total art work" ( Gesamptkunstwerk

30. Richard Wagner --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
    Britannica online encyclopedia article on richard wagner German dramatic composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the  
    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9075844
    
    Extractions: Courtesy of Richard Wagner-Gedenkstatte, Bayreuth, Germany in full Wilhelm Richard Wagner German dramatic composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music, either by extension of his discoveries or reaction against them. Among his major works are The Flying Dutchman Lohengrin Tristan und Isolde Parsifal (1882), and his great tetralogy

31. Richard Wagner | Opera Composer
    richard wagner was born in May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, Germany. wagner is acknowledged as the master of German opera, and one of the most progressive composers  
    http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96may/wagner.html
    
    Extractions: As a youth Wagner was fascinated by literature, particularly the plays of William Shakespeare. Through his teens he was increasingly attracted to composing. His opera based on the novel "Rienzi, Last of the Tribunes," was produced in Dresden in 1842, and was a success. His next production, "The Flying Dutchman" (1843), was also a hit. Near the end of the 1840s Wagner began work on his monumental cycle of four musical dramas collectively titled "Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungs)." This cycle, comprised of "Das Rheingold," "Die Walkure," "Siegfried" and "Die Gotterdammerung," took 22 years to complete, and stands as one of the most remarkable and influential achievements in Western music. The foundation of Wagner's philosophy of musical drama is the concept of "Gesamtkunstwerk," or "universal artwork." He held that music in a dramatic setting was best used to reinforce dramatic content and expression. His characters addressed the philosophical issues that Wagner considered vital to society: the tension between good and evil, between the physical and spiritual, and between selfishness and redemptive love.

32. The Controversy Over Richard Wagner
    When, in 1985, the richard wagner Museum in Bayreuth, Germany, opened an exhibition entitled wagner and the Jews, its organizer, museum director Manfred  
    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Wagner.html
    
    Extractions: The Controversy Over Richard Wagner By Lili Eylon When, in 1985, the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth, Germany , opened an exhibition entitled "Wagner and the Jews," its organizer, museum director Manfred Eger, said it was a plea not for Wagner but for the truth. The truth is that some Germans, like many Israelis, still cannot "digest" Wagner, and that the antisemitic composer continues to be an issue - lukewarm in Germany, hot in Israel "Richard Wagner's antisemitism throws a considerable shadow over his person and his work," Eger states in his introduction to the exhibition: "There are expressions used by him which could have been attributed to the National Socialist violently anti-Semitic and which are used today to brand him as a proponent of the Holocaust . But there are also remarks in which he retracts some of his earlier pronouncements. Moreover, several of his colleagues and friends were Jews." (One cannot help recalling the quotation attributed to Field Marshall Göring "It is I who determines who is a Jew .")

33. Richard Wagner- Composer
    richard wagner is known as one of the most progressive composers in history. His name has been linked to almost all the significant historical events of the  
    http://www.dsokids.com/2001/dso.asp?PageID=619

34. Dr. Richard Wagner
    Dr. richard wagner, The Psychology Department of Florida State University.  
    http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/wagner.dp.html

35. Richard E. Wagner's Home Page
    richard E. wagner Harris Professor in Economics Department of Economics, 3G4 George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 Phone (703)9931132  
    http://mason.gmu.edu/~rwagner/

36. The Wagner Library - Home
    richard wagner, Composer of Operas I provided a link to John F. Runciman s book of 1913, available at Project Gutenberg. Opera Stories from wagner  
    http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/
    
    Extractions: Est. 2001 - Edited by Patrick Swinkels Advanced Updates of 19 Sep 2007 Remarks on performing the opera "The Flying Dutchman." This document reveals Wagner to be an advocate of musical-dramatic realism, which requires the "precise correspondence of the events on the stage with the orchestra", and the "most careful correspondence between the action and the music." According to Wagner, Senta should "be seen not in the sense of modern, morbid sentimentality" but as "a wholly robust Nordic girl," a "naive." Erik is a counterpart to the figure of the Dutchman: "stormy, fierce and gloomy, like the loner." And Daland should not slip over "into actual comedy." [from the "Wagner Handbook", p. 604] Faithful, all too faithful. David Cormack's continued research into William Ashton Ellis produces regular updates that have been incorporated into his "Faithful" article. Wagner I provided a link to John F. Runciman's biography of 1913, available at Project Gutenberg. It is part of the "Miniature Series of Musicians". "Wagner's essays are worth reading by those who have the time and the physical and mental strenght, if only because they reveal a man thinking on wrong lines while he is doing on right ones; but they are terribly long-winded, and many weary pages are devoted to demonstrations of the obvious or the actually fallacious. Mr. W. Ashton Ellis has given many years of a valuable life to translating them into something which is not English and not German."

37. Multimedia – From Wagner To Virtual Reality
    German opera composer richard wagner believed that the future of music, music theater, and all the arts, lay in an embrace of Gesamtkunstwerk or total  
    http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Wagner.html
    
    Extractions: "Whereas the public, that representation of daily life, forgets the confines of the auditorium, and lives and breathes now only in the artwork which seems to it as Life itself, and on the stage which seems the wide expanse of the whole World." Richard Wagner with manuscript Excerpt from Wagner in Bayreuth German opera composer Richard Wagner believed that the future of music, music theater, and all the arts, lay in an embrace of Gesamtkunstwerk or total artwork, a fusion of the arts that had not been attempted on this scale since the classic Greeks. In 1849, Wagner wrote the essay, The Art-work of the Future , defining the synthesis of the arts in which opera served as a vehicle for the unification of all the arts into a single medium of artistic expression. The Festpielhaus (Festival House) Theater opened in 1876 in Bayreuth, Germany, where Wagner applied his theatrical innovations including: darkening the house, surround-sound reverberance, and the revitalization of the Greek amphitheatrical seating to focus audience attention on stage. This approach to opera foreshadowed the experience of virtual reality, immersing the audience in the imaginary world of the stage.

38. Harvard University Press/The Harvard Biographical Dictionary Of Music/Richard Wa
    Geyer married wagner s mother in August 1814. Known as richard Geyer for his first 14 years and treated as a favorite son, wagner in his maturity suspected  
    http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/ranhab/wagner.html
    
    Extractions: RICHARD WAGNER Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard Politische "Wagner now turned his attention to opera. While in Prague for the performance of his symphony he began the libretto to Die Hochzeit; Die Feen (The Fairies; after Carlo Gozzi's La donna serpente ). In February Die Hochzeit was abandoned and the music for Die Feen begun, reaching completion in January 1834, then revised that spring. Although the opera's musical and aesthetic premises are derived from Weber's Oberon and Marschner's Der Vampyr , they are nonetheless realized with a skill and attractiveness quite exceptional in a young man's first opera. "Wagner's intellectual life had gained a notable stimulus in 1832 when the composer became friends with Heinrich Laube, along with Heine a leading figure in the Young Germans, an informal literary society that rejected the Romantic movement of the century's first decades in favor of a more politically conscious posture. The pages of Laube's provided Wagner with his first forum as a belle-lettrist. In `Die Deutsche Oper,' published in June 1834, Wagner began the practice, typical for him but unusual at that time, of working out a specific aesthetic or theory in print before trying it out in music. According to this article, Germans needed to learn from recent achievements in Italian opera. The same month he sketched the story of an opera in which he would heed his own advice

39. Richard Wagner (The Lied And Art Song Texts Page: Texts And Translations To Lied
    Listing at the Lied and Art Songs Text Page with German lyrics to selected vocal works and cycles, some with translations.  
    http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/w/wagner.html

40. Richard Wagner's Biography
    Few composers have had so powerful an impact on their time as richard wagner (18131883). His operas and artistic philosophy influenced not only musicians  
    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/fields/8616/composerfiles/wagner.html
    
    Extractions: wmcbooks@ipa.net or starchaser-m@geocities.com Richard Wagner "I write music with an exclamation point!" Richard Wagner "Few composers have had so powerful an impact on their time as Richard Wagner (1813-1883). His operas and artistic philosophy influenced not only musicians but also poets, painters, and playwright. Such was his preeminence that an opera house of his own design was built in Bayreuth, Germany, solely for performances of his music dramas. "Wagner was born in Leipzig into a theatrical family. His boyhood dream was to be a poet and playwright, but at fifteen he was overwhelmed by Beethoven's music and decided to become a composer. He taught himself by studying scores and had almost three years of formal training in music theory, but he never mastered an instrument. As a student at Leipzig University he dueled, drank, and gambled; and a similar pattern persisted laterhe always lived shamelessly off other people and ran up debts he could not repay. "During his early twenties, Wagner conducted in small German theaters and wrote several operas. In 1839, he decided to try his luck in Paris, then the center of grand opera; he and his wife spent two miserable years there, during which he was unable to get an opera performed and was reduced to musical hackwork. But he returned to Germany in 1842 for the production of his opera Rienzi in Dresden; the work was immensely successful, and he was appointed conductor of the Dresden Opera. Wagner spent six years at this post, becoming famous as both an opera composer and a conductor. When the revolutions of 1848 were sweeping across Europe, Wagner's life in Dresden had become difficult because of accumulated debts. Hoping that a new society would wipe these out and produce conditions favorable to his art, he participated in an insurrection and then had to flee to Switzerland. For several years he did no composing; instead, he worked out his theories of art in several essays and completed the libretto to

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

21-40 of 79    Back | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | Next 20