5.07.+Richard+Wagner

__ Richard Wagner Biography​__

Richard Wagner born in Buhrl, in Leipzig on 22 May 1813. For the first 14 years of his life, Wagner was known as Wilhelm Richard Geyer. During his life, the first lessons in composition he took, wre with Christian Gottlieb Müller.In 1829, he saw the dramatic sopranoWilhelmine Schroder-Devrient on stage, and she became his ideal of the fusion of drama and music in opera. Years later, Wagner's older brother Karl Albert managed to obtain Richard a position as choir master in Wurzburg. In the same year, at the age of 20, Wagner composed his first complete opera, Die Fein.

On 24 November 1836, Wagner married the actress Christine Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer. In June 1837 they moved to the city of Riga, Then in the Russian Empire, where Wagner became music director of the local opera. But his marriage, they have ruptures and they became unbelivers, but finally they became together again. After, the wagners spent 4 years in Paris where Richard made a scant living writing articles and arranging operas by other composers, largely on behalf of the Schlesinger publishing house. He also completed Rienzi and other works during this time.

During six years, Wagner lived in Dresden, in the german state of Saxony, where he was accepted for performances by the Dresden Court Theatre. During this time Wagner, eventually being appointed the Royal Saxon Court Conductor, and during his period, he finished some operas and ones of them became very aclaimed. The stayed of Wagners in Dresden, finished because Wagner was involucrated in the left politics. During the revolution against the saxon government came to a head in April 1849, when King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony dissolved Parliament and rejected a new constitution pressed upon him by the people. The May Uprising broke out, in which Wagner played a minor supporting role. The incipient revolution was quickly crushed by an allied force of Saxon and Prussian troops, and warrants were issued for the arrest of the revolutionaries. Wagner had to flee, first to Paris and then to Zürich.

During the next twelve years, Wagner spent it in the exile. During this time, Wagner compose a lot of works and travle to some citys. One of these works was Tristan and Isolda which it had to be an impresionant opera, but this became a failure, how all of the other works. All of it became a failure or were canceled for another somethings.during this period, Wagner had a very big economic crisis and finally his wife left him. media type="youtube" key="zsRLV5BKFtg" height="344" width="425"

Wagner's fortune took a dramatic upturn in 1864, when king ludwing assumed the trone of Baviera. Ludwing, had admired Wagner since he was a child, and he helped Wagner to represent his operas in the theatre, he became especially interested in "Tristan i Isolda".Ludwing admired a lot Wagner and when Wagner fell into disfavour amongst members of the court, who were suspicious of his influence on the king, he intent to abdicate, but finally, wagner stop him. During this period, Wagner married woman director who had made possible the performance of the play, and he have a lot of children with her.

In 1871, Wagner decided to put his opera, on the small location of Bayreuth. In order to raise founds for the construction,"Wagner Societies" were formed in several cities, and Wagner himself began touring Germany conducting concerts. However, sufficient funds were raised only after King Ludwig stepped in with another large grant in 1874. Later that year, the Wagners moved into their permanent home at Bayreuth, a villa that Richard dubbed Wahnfried.

Following the first Bayreuth festival Wagner stay all the time in Italy where he began work on Parsifal, his final opera. he was composing the opera during 4 years, during which he also wrote a series of increasingly reactionary essays on religion and art. Wagner completed Parsifal in January 1882, and a second Bayreuth Festival was held for the new opera. Wagner was by this time extremely ill, having suffered through a series of increasingly severe angina attacks. On 13 February 1883, Richard Wagner died of a heart attack at Ca' Vendramin Calergi, a 16th century palazzo on the Grand Canal. His body was returned to Bayreuth and buried in the garden of the Villa Wahnfried.

Franz Liszt's memorable piece for pianoforte solo, La lugubre gondola, evokes the passing of a black-shrouded funerary gondola bearing Richard Wagner's remains over the Grand Canal.

 __Selected works__

- Die Feen - The Flying Dutchman (opera) - Götterdämmerung - Die Hochzeit - Die Laune des Verlieben - Das Libesverbot - Lohengrin (opera) - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist - Parsifal - Das Rehingold - Rienzi - Seigfried (opera) - Tristan und Isolde - Die Walküre - Der Ring des Nibelungen - Tanhäuser (opera) - Wieland der Schmied (libretto)

__Comment of a Piece__ **__Rienzi__** Is a piece of music composed by Wagner. It is represented in a theatre with an orchestra. It is an early opera composed in five acts, which are the third opera of the composer. It was intented to be premiered at Paris Opera, but several circumstances, including the need for Wagner to flee from the city, prevented the performance. The rythm of the work is constantly increasing the speed of it and the melody is slowly. Finally Wagner really didn't believe that this work had any exit, but finally, it became how one of the best opers of the time.

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