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'WAGNER, RICHARD ( Vahg'-ner ) (For records of Wagner compositions see “Album Leaf,” "Dream of Wagner,” “Flying Dutchman,” “Gotterdammerung,” “Lohengrin,” “ Meistersinger,” “Parsifal,” “Rienzi Overture,” “Siegfried” “Tannhauser,” “Traume,” “Tristan und Isolde” and “Walkure.”)
Born Leipsic, 1813, son of city official. Father died, mother married Geyer, actor, when Wagner was 6. Family moved to Dresden, boy studied piano. Profoundly affected hearing Weber’s Freischiitz. Composed string quartets, overture, a symphony.
Began opera The Wedding, 1832, unfinished. Directed Mag¬ deburg Opera 1 834. Married Mina Planer, actress. (Separated 1862, marrying divorced wife of Hans Von Biilow.) Conductor Riga, Russia, 1837, began Rienzi. Failed. Went England in small vessel, conceiving idea Tristan and Flying Dutchman during storms. Failed London, lived poor, obscure in Paris. Wrote dance music. Rienzi produced Dresden 1842 through Meyerbeer. Flying Dutchman followed. Tannhauser 1845. Fled to Switzerland in revolution 1849. Began Niebelungen Ring. Returned Germany 1861. Tristan dropped as “unsingable” after 57 rehearsals, Vienna. Helped by King Ludwig of Bavaria. Built Festival Theatre, Bayreuth 1876. Last opera, Parsifal, produced there 1882. Went to Italy for health, died there 1883.
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