Richard Wagner was a composer and conductor from the 1800s in Germany. He was well known and had many popular orchestras and other forms of media. For most of his life, he wasn’t involved in any controversies regarding his music or any notions of racism...
Undoubtedly, Richard Wagner was one of the most influential composers to grace the Earth with his presence. His music continues to inspire and evoke nearly 150 years after his death, and as it is still performed by symphony productions, opera companies and chamber orchestras, this...
Abstract This paper includes a look at cultural generalizations in the past to the present of music and how it damages the perception of the community at heart who presents it. In particular, the reader will learn about the ideology of German Composer Richard Wagner,...
There’s some kind of strange revolutionary aspect of Richard Wagner’s opera, Tristan und Isolde. There are modernist artistic facets that transcend the confines of traditional visual art and bleed through other forms of expression as well. Prevailing is the concept of breaking down the claustrophobic...
In Zurich, Switzerland, in 1852, Richard Wagner met a woman named Mathilde Wesendonck. She was married to a silk merchant who came to enjoy the music composed by Wagner so much that he eventually granted the composer a place to stay on the Wesendonck property....
