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Creator · Composer

Richard Wagner

Biography

RICHARD WAGNER spent ten years in Switzerland, managing to escape with Liszt's help after taking part in the Dresden uprising in May 1849, wanted by the police and sentenced in absentia to prison. The time of forced exile (1849 - 1858) was a complex and ambiguous period for the composer. Sheltered with his family in the home of Otto Wesendonck, during these years he created some of his most important literary works ("The Artwork of the Future", "Opera and Drama", etc.), working on his gigantic idea The Ring of the Nibelung, wrote the first operas in tetralogy -The Rhine Gold , Valkyrie, and started working on Siegfried .

Works

Wesendonck Songs (Wesendonck Lieder) orchestrated by Gustav KuhnExcerpts from the Opera "Götterdämmerung"Siegfried's Rhine Journey from "The Twilight of the Gods""Liebestod" from the opera "Tristan und Isolde""Die Frist ist um" - Dutchman's Aria from the Act I of the opera „The Flying Dutchman“"Was duftet doch der Flieder" - Hans Sachs's Aria from the Act II of the opera „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg)The Flying DutchmanSenta's Ballad from the Opera "The Flying Dutchman"Final Monologue from the Opera "Götterdämmerung"Duet of Senta and Erik (Bleib, Senta!), Act II from Opera "The Flying Dutchman"Concert Overture "Faust"Entr'acte Music, Act III from Opera "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg"Introduction to Act III from Opera "Lohengrin"Introduction to Act III from Opera "Tristan und Isolde"Overture from Opera "Rienzi"First Act from Opera "Die Walküre"Siegfried Idyll, a symphonic poem for chamber orchestraAria "Mild und leise"/Isolde's Death from "Tristan und Isolde", Act IIIPilgrim's Chorurs (Beglückt darf nun) from Opera "Tannhäuser""Sailors Chorus" (Steuermann, Lass Die Wacht) from Opera "The Flying Dutchman"Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire, Act III from Opera "Die Walküre"Aria of Elsa, Picture II, Act I from Opera "Lohengrin""Siegfried's Funeral March", Act III from Opera "Götterdämmerung"Aria of Elisabeth (Dich, teure Halle), Picture I, Act II from Opera "Tannhäuser""Forest Murmurs", Act II from Opera "Siegfried"Cavatine of Erik, Picture II, Act III from Opera "The Flying Dutchman""Bridal Chorus", Picture I, Act III from Opera "Lohengrin"Song Cycle "Wesendonck Lieder" for Female Voice and PianoIntroduction to Act III and Good Friday Music from Opera "Parsifal"Introduction and Finale of Act I from Opera "Parsifal"Monologue of Brünnhilde, Act III from Opera "Götterdämmerung"Finale from Opera "Die Walküre"Finale from Opera "Götterdämmerung"Symphony in C majorIntroduction to Act I from Opera "Lohengrin""The ride of the Valkyries"Overture from Opera "The Flying Dutchman"Introduction to Act I from Opera "Tristan und Isolde"Overture from Opera "Tannhäuser"Overture from Opera "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"Prelude and death of Isolde from the opera „Tristan and Isolde“Introduction and Libestod of Isolde from Opera "Tristan und Isolde"

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