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Add your site... | » INFO | did you know? « Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 in Leipzig - February 13, 1883 in Venice) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking symphonic-operas (or "music dramas"). Richard Wagner | Polyphonic RingtonesDisplaying 1 - 2 of 2 ringtones:
» INFO | did you know? « His compositions are notable for their continuous contrapuntal texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: themes associated with specific characters or situations. Wagner's chromatic musical language prefigured later developments in European classical music, including extreme chromaticism and atonality. He transformed musical thought through his idea of Gesamtkunstwerk ("total art-work"), epitomized by his monumental four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876). » INFO | did you know? « His concept of leitmotif and integrated musical expression was a strong influence on many 20th century film scores. Wagner is also an extremely controversial figure, both for his musical and dramatic innovations, and for his anti-semitic views. » INFO | did you know? « Wagner's operas are his primary artistic legacy. These can be divided chronologically into three periods. Wagner's early-stage began at age 19 with his first attempt at an opera, Die Hochzeit (The Wedding), which Wagner abandoned at an early stage of composition in 1832. Wagner's three completed early-stage operas are Die Feen (The Fairies), Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love), and Rienzi. Their compositional style was conventional, and did not exhibit the innovations that marked Wagner's place in musical history. Later in life, Wagner said that he did not consider these immature works to be part of his oeuvre. These works are seldom performed, though the overture to Rienzi has become a concert piece. Richard Wagner | Voice RingtonesDisplaying 1 - 3 of 3 ringtones:
» INFO | did you know? « Wagner's music continues to provoke strong reactions. In his later works, he created such long spans and deep pulses that to appreciate the music fully requires listeners to yield to Wagner's concept of time. Many resist - including Rossini ("Wagner has wonderful moments, and dreadful quarters of an hour"), whose own "Guillaume Tell" was, at over four hours, longer than any single Wagner evening. Wagner's ideals, from the "blonde beast" heroism of Siegfried to his enthusiastic reading of Schopenhauer and his fascination with death and apotheosis, are deeply unfashionable. Still, his operas continue to command a strong following, and Wagner is second only to Napoleon as a historical figure in the quantity of secondary literature he has stimulated. That he continues to excite controversy and admiration to such an extent, though, is due at root to his music, which is of unsurpassed nobility, power, grandeur - and a sometimes dangerously transcendent beauty. [BACK] What do you think about Richard Wagner? |
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