Wagnerism may refer to:
*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 ...
's philosophical and artistic ideals
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain, called the "Champion of Wagnerism"
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Wagner controversies
The German composer Richard Wagner was a controversial figure during his lifetime, and has continued to be so after his death. Even today he is associated in the minds of many with Nazism and his operas are often thought to extol the virtues of G ...
*Richard Wagner's style of music, for example,
Alberto Franchetti
Alberto Franchetti (18 September 1860 – 4 August 1942) was an Italian composer, best known for the 1902 opera ''Germania''.
Biography
Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish nobleman of independent means. He studied first in Venice, the ...
*''Wagnerianism and Czech National Identity'', 1870 writing by Czech historian and musicologist
Otakar Hostinský
Otakar Hostinský (2 January 1847, Martiněves (near Litoměřice) – 19 January 1910, Prague) was a Czech historian, musicologist, and professor of musical aesthetics. He is known primarily for his support of composer Bedřich Smetana and hi ...
* a form of adversarial labour union legislation represented by the
Wagner Act in the United States
*''Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music'' (2020), book by music critic
Alex Ross
Nelson Alexander Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American comic book writer and artist known primarily for his painted interiors, covers, and design work. He first became known with the 1994 miniseries ''Marvels'', on which he collaborated wi ...
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