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Richard Wagner
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner, the great musical composer, was born at
Leipzig, Germany. He showed an early faculty for music and began the enthusiastic
study of it under Beethoven. In 1835 he became conductor of the orchestra of
the theatre of Magdeburg, and held the same post afterwards at Riga and
Königsberg. Wagner's principal works were Rienzi (1840), The Flying
Dutchman (1843), Tannhäuser (1845), Lohengrin (1850), Tristan and
Isolde (1859), The Mastersingers of Nürnberg (1859-60), and the Ring
of the Nibelungen, the composition of which occupied 25 years; this last
was performed in 1876 at Bayreuth in a theatre erected for the purpose in
presence of the emperor of Germany and the principal musical artists of
the world. Parsifal was his last work. Wagner lived from 1813 to 1883.
Richard Wagner Facts and Information
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