The Works: Richard Wagner

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His work sent shock waves across nineteenth century Europe. Each of his mature operas expresses deep insights into the nature of the human condition, influencing fields as diverse as philosophy, politics and psychiatry. They have also spurred emulation and reaction among musicians, writers and many other artists. He was born into a family that was devoted to theatre.

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Wagner himself was a lively child with boundless enthusiasm for the music of Beethoven. He gained experience as a conductor in provincial theatres, and married an actress. The plan failed and he was soon living in poverty, making ends meet by writing arrangements and music journalism.

His lifelong antipathy to France and all things Gallic stemmed from this experience. He returned to Germany in , producing two operas at Dresden within a few months of each other. It was to be the first of Wagner's operas to explore a subject that would become a lifelong obsession: The Prologue to The Ring introduces Wagner's cast of Nordic gods, giants and dwarves who struggle to assume supremacy in a fragile and corrupt world. The first of Wagner's operas to explore the theme of redemptive love, its tempestuous overture was inspired by the composer's rough voyage from Riga to London.

Wagner's sixteen-hour operatic tetralogy traces a power-struggle that sees families ripped apart, hearts broken, heroes slaughtered and fortunes won and lost. A small-town romance with a high-minded agenda, 'The Mastersingers of Nuremberg explores issues of creativity, tradition, pedantry and love.

List of compositions by Richard Wagner

Wagner's swansong, a masterpiece of sustained drama on the legend of the Knights of the Grail, is an Eastertide meditation on sacrifice and redemption. Composed as a birthday tribute, the Siegfried Idyll was first played on a staircase leading to Wagner's wife Cosima's bedroom at 7. Wagner's most audacious score, famous for its overture and the closing Liebestod, recounts the Celtic legend of the tragic love of Tristan and Isolde.

Wagner was soon appointed to the position of Kapellmeister at Dresden. He worked diligently to improve the city's musical stature. He instituted Palm Sunday performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the work that most perfectly encapsulated his artistic ethos. In revolutionary fervour swept across Saxony. Wagner took an active part in the uprising, manning the barricades in Dresden. This resulted in his exile to Switzerland. It was conducted by Franz Liszt, though Wagner supervised the production by correspondence.

These proposed a new kind of opera with drama as its focus.

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Music, costumes, lighting and other associated arts would exist solely to enhance the drama. The libretto was finished in but the music for the cycle was not completed until , after its first two operas had already been performed.

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Instead of dividing an opera into alternating sections of plot-driven recitatives and reactive arias, Wagner's vocal writing became more consistently declamatory. Musical and dramatic continuity was provided by the orchestra, which was 'symphonic' in its size, and in the complexity and subtlety of its music. One of Wagner's innovations was to employ leitmotifs, brief musical themes associated with specific characters, objects or ideas.