Richard Wagner

Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862, in France. Debussy and his parents lived in a very poverty stricken suburb in Paris. By the age of nine, Claude’s gift of being a pianist began to show; and a female Russian millionaire, Nadezha Filaretovna von Meck, persuaded Debussy to play duets with her and her children. After accepting her offer, Claude Debussy began to travel with the woman all throughout Europe during the summer; time that he was not in school at the Conservatory. While in Paris…

A majority of people seem to agree the Wagner was an anti-Semite. Among those people, a debate has emerged as to the place of Wagner’s music in our current society. Over the course of this essay I attempt to make sense of this debate and try come to a conclusion about what place Wagner’s music should have in the 21st Century. At the same time, I am to provide context by noting his impact on music and looking toward Israel where the topic of Wagner’s music seems to be most controversial. Despite…

Richard Georg Strauss was born in Munich on June 11, 1864. He was the first child of the musician Franz joseph and his wife Josepha. At the age of six years old he was composing his own first piece of music. At the age of eighteen he had composed a 140 works of his own. Upon recommendation of his own Mentor at the time, the renowned Wagner Conductor Hans von Bulow, Richard Strauss became the most Music director in in the Meninges at the young age of 21. One year later in 1886, the musician…

Richard Wagner is known to be an influential and controversial composer. Richard was born in Germany on May 22, 1813. He is famous for his operas and writings. His operas were very complex and his writings were very famous. Surprisingly, as a young boy, he did not show an ability to play music. However, he was very ambitious and worked very hard to be a great composer and writer. At the age of 11, he wrote his first drama. By the time he was 16 years old, he was writing musical composition…

members used propaganda as an integral method to promote the philosophies of the Third Reich. Due to Hitler’s lifelong passion for it, music became one of the essential avenues of Hitler’s propaganda messages. Bruckner, Beethoven and most Notably Wagner were just a few of the many composers whom were glorified by Hitler. Through a discriminant handpicking of composers, the Nazi regime was able to rewrite German music history and efficaciously promote and produce music that paralleled the ideas…

According to William H. Gass, the concepts of beauty and morality are two unrelated concepts. Gass conjures the scene of a dinner party to prove his point with a myriad of characters and situations behind each action or object at the party. He claims that if the quail were to be unethically shot by a machine gun from a plane, it would be completely unrelated to if that quail were to be cooked badly. He also draws the example that the presence of a field marshal could not sour the wine. The…

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer born in 1858 and is known to have put a considerable amount of thought into creating the mood and literary components of his librettos (Kamien, Roger Music An Appreciation p.280). Richard Wagner was a German composer born in 1813 to a theatrical family (Kamien, Roger Music An Appreciation p. 289). Both of these composers are famous for their operas and are from the Romanic Period. Their compositions, La Boheme and Die Walkure, share the characteristics of…

Modesto Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s 7th Symphony The performance started out with “Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg “The Master-Singers of Nuremberg”” composed by Richard Wagner. Wagner was a German composer mainly known for his amazing operas. He was born in Germany in May of 1813 and lived through the romantic era of music. The entire opera has to be one of the longest that is commonly performed, typically taking close to four and a half hours. In this performance, however, they…

realism and one of the creators of some of the best-loved operas. Richard Wagner was a German-born composer known not only for his dramatic compositions, but it is said that his artistic philosophy extended and had an enormous influence on not only his contemporaries but to other genres such as painter, playwrights, and poets. It is said that few composers had such a profound impact during their lifetime. Both Giacomo Puccini and Richard Wagner were born into a lineage of the arts with Puccini…

Richard Wagner Richard Wagner is a German composer. He was a conductor and song writer. Wagner was born May 22, 1813. No one is really sure who his actual parents are. Some say his father was a police officer who died. Others think that his dad died when he was just born. His mother may have remarried to a guy named Ludwig Geyer he was an actor, painter, and poet. When he was young he did not seem to be interested in playing a musical instrument. At 11 years old he wrote his first drama.…