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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 - February 13, 1883), was born in Leipzig, Germany. His early efforts at composition were unsuccessful, and in Paris (1839?2) he made a living by journalism and hack operatic arrangements. His “Rienzi?(1842) was a great success at Dresden, and he was appointed Kapellmeister, but his next operas, including “Tannhäuser?(1845), were failures. Deeply implicated in the revolutionary movement, he fled from Saxony (1848), moving to Paris and Zürich. The poem of the Ring Cycle was finished in 1852, and in 1853 he began to write “Das Rheingold?(The Rhinegold), followed by “Die Walküre?(1856, The Valkyries) and the first two acts of “Siegfried?(1857).
In 1864, he was saved from ruin by the eccentric young King of Bavaria, Ludwig II, who became a fanatical admirer of his work, and offered him every facility at Munich. “Die Meistersinger?was completed in 1867, and “Götterdämmerung?in 1874. To fulfil his ambition to give a complete performance of the Ring (Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, with Das Rheingold as introduction), he started the now famous theatre at Bayreuth, which opened in 1876. “Parsifal,?his last opera, was staged in 1882, a year before his sudden death from a heart attack, in Venice.
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