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Two Short Biographies Richard Wagner

INTRODUCTION

Richard Wagner, born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, was very soon his artistic influences family, his adoptive father Ludwig Geyer, who was an actor and painter, was his first instructor. Moreover, his older sister Rosalie was also an actress and her other sister, Klara, was a singer. Klara professional destiny made the Wagner house was visited by CM von Weber, for whom the young man felt a special predilection that transcends the German opera. In 1829, Richard discovered the art who devoted his entire life:attended a performance of Fidelio, being dazzled by the vocal and dramatic talents of Wilhelmina Schroeder-Devrient soprano (Leonora). The young man wrote a letter congratulating her that night and prophesying his own career as a composer.

Richard musical studies included the piano and violin (where not highlighted), some elements of music theory behind his family G. Müllert, musician of the orchestra in Leipzig. For six months he studied with Theodor Weinlig, cantor of St. Thomas in Leipzig, the Art of Fugue, fees, etc.. On the other hand, the interest of young per literatura, mostly classical, inspired him to become a writer and after some initial contact with is your gender in school, Richard discovered in operating your ideal, since this could be used for both genders together. His professional career began at age twenty, when he was hired as choir director of Würzburg. Since then, Wagner worked on a series of provincial theaters, short of money and a little more public. The young Richard composed his first opera for those theaters from the post of conductor: Fairies (Die Feen ) in Magdeburg (1834), based on a story by Gozzi ( La donna serpent), which whose complexity was released in 1888 (five years after his death)a series of terrible storms inspired a new opera: The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Hollander ).
stay in Paris was an absolute failure to Wagner. Besides not being able to release any of his operas, was working in reductions for piano and singing Italian operas for which he took great aversion. Even spent a brief time in debtor's prison because their debts are piling up fast and low income. Finally it was the city of Dresden which, with the help of Meyerbeer, accepted the premiere of Rienzi

. Wagner left Paris with bitterness, but with hopes for their homeland. Rienzi

and the royal house of Saxony.

With Tannhäuser, premiered in Dresden in 1845, advanced in the use of driver issues now more extensive. Use the legendary world of knights Minnesinger medieval German equivalent to the troubadours of Provence. But here the drama takes a religious aspect to face, first, love "carnal", symbolizing the goddess Venus and the other, the spiritual love of Elisabeth. The play begins in Venusberg, where Tannhäuser remains with the goddess. The Knight misses the underworld and makes Venus allowed to return. Once in the region of Thuringia (earlyORT hours of opera, when Lohengrin is identified as a Knight of the Holy Grail. Although Wagner believed in the efficacy of the system, it really had its cracks, as for his contemporaries was very difficult to recognize the many issues involved in music and that related closely to the text; system that almost no one understood by its complexity and because his operas only were represented in a few theaters. Richard Wagner began the composition of Lohengrin

in 1845, but active participation by the composer in the revolutionary events of Dresden (1848-1849) was forced to take refuge first in Weimar with Liszt and the processing order decreed against him into exile in Switzerland.

Lohengrin

was therefore the first opera to be premiered in Germany (Weimar, August 28, 1850) while Richard remained in exile. In it are still remarkably Italianate influences and meyerbeerianas.

patronage of King Ludwig II of Bavaria

When the composer had retired to Mariafeld (near Zurich, May 1864) for claims of creditors was presented as a miracle Cabinet Secretary Luis II to tell the king, his most ardent admirer, would be flattered if he accepted to be her intered guest. Were quickly paid the numerous debts contracted by the composer who settled comfortably in a house near the king's summer residence in Berg. For he composed The March of Homage
. On June 1, 1865 opened

Tristan and Isolde in Munich, when Wagner began his autobiography My Life

(Mein Leben). But he knew he had initiated relations with Cosima Liszt and were exploited for a court intrigue that forced Louis II to ask him time away from Munich. He moved to Switzerland and, after the death of his wife Minna in Dresden (1866), was installed with Cosima in Triebschen beautiful villa on Lake Geneva with her four daughters. Richard was able to work in his orich, while starting composition The Götterdämmerung. That poem was read by Wagner in Dresden, Zurich and Paris with notable success. Friends showed their admiration for the Germanic epic hero, but put certain objections to the viability of their stage performance. After years of living with Wagner, Cosima was Hans von Bülow divorces and marries Richard (1870), for his birthday he wrote Siegfried Idyll. By this time Wagner went on to Germany to prepare the way for his Fesrspielhaus

in Bayreuth and the Wagner Society Foundation. On the day of its fifty-ninth birthday he laid the foundation stone of the Bayreuth Theatre, and the following year realraised a tour of Germany to raise funds, and finally, thanks to the generous support of Louis II was finished. That same year (1874) built his house Wahnfried of Bayreuth, which he moved. It ended the twilight of the gods, ending the tetralogy, which was first forming three complete cycles in Bayreuth (1876). Economic losses were heavy, but it was the show that everyone wanted to see. After the festival, Wagner moved with his family to London. Where he led a series of concerts to raise funds to cover losses in Bayreuth. Shortly after he had his first heart problems, so he moved to Bad Ems (1877) for a health cure.

Cthe holy alliance wounding her. Since then, the wound had stopped bleeding. A prophecy that was to save a young Amfortas is the only hope. One day there comes a pure girl who does not know his name nor his parents; Gurnemanz, one of the gentlemen, takes the sacred meal, but seeing the young man shows no signs of being a messenger of prophecy you out of castle. Parsifal, however, expire at Kundry and Klingsor recovering the sacred spear. In the last act has been a long time and Parsifal returns to the Grail castle. Good Friday; Guernemanz now recognizes the savior of prophecy and proclaimed the new king of the Grail. They go to the room where the gentlemen remain Amfortas, Parsifal touches Amfortas's wound, quasure). Presented this work in 1836, but was greeted with little enthusiasm. That same year, Wagner married the actress Minna Planer. The couple moved to Königsberg and then to Riga, where Wagner has served as musical director. After some weeks, Minna leaves him for another man. Shortly after she returns, but the relationship never painstakingly reassembled and run in for the next three decades.

Mired in debt, the couple furtively leave Riga in 1839. Leave for London and the way they are victims of a storm that inspired Wagner's The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer). The Wagner live a period in Paris, where Richard makes his living reorquestando operas by other composers. Dresden

CHTs and then to Zurich. Exile Wagner would spend the next twelve years in exile. Having completed Lohengrin before the Dresden uprising called, he turns to his friend Franz Liszt, who was asked to ensure that this opera is represented in his absence. Thus, in August 1850, Liszt himself directed the premiere in Weimar.

However, Wagner was in a very precarious, marginalized in the German musical world with no income and little hope of being able to represent the works they produced. His wife, Minna, who recently had appreciated his later operas, gradually shut himself into a deep depression. To make matters worse, the same Wagner was diagnosed with erysipelas, which further increasedking to expel Wagner of the city. Luis II comes to think of abdicating to follow Wagner in exile, but the musician does persuade.

Wagner moved to the outskirts of Lucerne. In 1867 he finished his opera Die Meistersinger of Nuremberg (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). Three years later, divorced and Cosima married Wagner, who offers the Siegfried Idyll on the occasion of his birthday. The couple has two children: Eva and Siegfried (and Isolde, the daughter of the affair.) For several years, the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a close friend of Wagner, although the relationship ended in enmity. The Ring cycle

Wagner spent more than vielhaus, which continue to represent his work, year after year since then (except in parentheses caused by the two world wars).

In 1877, Wagner began his final opera, Parsifal. Took to compose four years, during which he also writes a series of essays on religion and art. Parsifal premiered in January 1882. At this time Wagner is seriously ill. Wagner's family moves to Venice in winter. On February 13, 1883, Wagner dies of a heart attack. Your body is repatriated and buried in the garden of Wahnfried, his villa in Bayreuth. Ideology Wagner

German Patriotism

-Wagner was initially driven by the ideas ofthe people were not bullied. Religion

About this track says Houston Stewart Chamberlain | Chamberlain HS: Religion is, according to Wagner, for the inner life, which the monarchy is for outside. Even in those years (1848-1852), in which Wagner was almost directly at odds with Christianity and history, there is not one of her writings that do not talk about religion as a basis of "human dignity itself," as "the source of all art ", etc.. The churches, however, and crystallization of revelation in dogma, although the majority are treated by Wagner with great respect and give you the opportunity to treat light-filled, it seems that personalmWagnerian performances, partly due to sabotage by protests by Holocaust survivors. ============================================= =============================