![]() It was here that the Ringand Parsifal received their premieres and where his most important stage works continue to be performed in an annual festival run by his descendants. Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs-musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung). Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of art”), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced in a series of essays between 18. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas by John F.Wilhelm Richard Wagner (–13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, “music dramas”). Richard Wagner: His Life and His Dramas by W. * Features six biographies on the great composer - explore Wagner’s intriguing musical and personal life * Includes Wagner’s letters to Franz Liszt - explore the composer’s personal correspondence * A wide selection of the composer’s prose works, including fiction, pioneering essays and Wagner’s celebrated autobiography ![]() * English translations of the librettos for the major operas, including works appearing for the first time in digital print * Features a special ‘Complete Compositions’ section, with an index of Wagner’s complete works and links to streaming services * Links to popular streaming services (free and paid), allowing you to listen to the masterpieces you’re reading about * Learn about the operas that made Wagner a celebrated composer * Concise and informative overview of Wagner’s masterworks This volume presents Wagner’s masterworks in succinct detail, with informative introductions, accompanying illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus features. Whether a classical novice or a cultivated connoisseur, this series offers an intriguing overview of the world’s most famous and iconic compositions. Evaluating the masterworks of each composer, you will explore the development of their works, tracing how they changed the course of music history. ![]() Analysing the masterworks of each composer, these interactive eBooks include links to popular streaming services, allowing you to listen to the pieces of music you are reading about. Delphi’s Great Composers Series offers concise illustrated guides to the life and works of our greatest composers. ![]() He achieved these ideas most fully in his epic cycle of operas ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’, notable for complex textures, rich harmonies and the elaborate use of leitmotifs. He went on to revolutionise the music form through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his works. The operas of the German composer Richard Wagner had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music.
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