Martin Gregor-Dellin (real name Martin Gustav Schmidt) was a
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writer noted for his scholarship on the composer
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 op ...
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/ref> He was born in 1926 in Naumburg
Naumburg () is a town in (and the administrative capital of) the district Burgenlandkreis, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany. It has a population of around 33,000. The Naumburg Cathedral became a UNES ...
(Saale
The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale (german: Sächsische Saale) and Thuringian Saale (german: Thüringische Saale), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Fränkische Saale, ...
) and died in 1988 in Grobenzell. His book ''Richard Wagner: Sein Leben, Sein Werk, Sein Jahrhundert'' has been translated into multiple languages.
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Richard Wagner
People from Naumburg (Saale)
1926 births
1988 deaths
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