Today, May 22 (1813), is Richard Wagner’s Birthday.
German Composer, Critic, Teacher, 19th-century Orchestra Master
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), was an influential German composer, famous for Lohengrin, The Ring of the Nibelungs, The Twilight of the Gods, The Flying Dutchman, and The Valkyrie. He revolutionized 19th-century opera concept as a new art form in which musical, poetic, and scenic elements were unified through a theme known as ‘leitmotif’ (leading motive.)
Read more — Richard Wagner’s Life and Works
Wagner’s Operas
- Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love) 1836
- Rienzi 1842
- Der fliegende Hollánder (The Flying Dutchman) 1843
- Tannhäuser 1845
- Lohengrin 1848
- Das Rheinhold 1854
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) 1856
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), music drama 1859
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) 1867
- Siegfried 1871
- Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods), completes the operatic cycle der ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungs) 1874
- Parsifal, music drama 1882
