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Wagner (other)
Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was a German composer. Wagner may also refer to: People * Wagner (surname), including a list of people * Wagner (given name), a list of people * Wágner, a given name and surname, including a list of people *Wagner (singer), Brazilian singer and participant in ''The X Factor'' (Wagner Fiuza-Carrilho) *Wágner (footballer, born 1945), Brazilian football manager and former midfielder (Wágner Canotilho) *Wagner (footballer, born 1966), Brazilian football forward (Antonio Wagner de Moraes) *Wágner (footballer, born 1973), Brazilian football striker (Wágner Pires de Almeida) *Wagner (footballer, born 1978), Brazilian football manager and former attacking midfielder (Wagner Santos Lago) *Wágner (footballer, born 1985), Brazilian football attacking midfielder (Wágner Ferreira dos Santos) *Wágner (footballer, born 1987), Brazilian football forward (Wágner de Andrade Borges) *Wágner (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian football centre-back (Wágner Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo 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. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (''The Ring of the Nibelung''). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
