Wagner's Biography

Author: Schneider
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: What attracts me to drama is, I mean, the stage scenes, backstage, and the actors' dressing rooms, as well as the performance hall—not out of the entertainment needs sought by the masses of our time, nor from the delightful excitement arising from a false world full of temptation and fear. —Wagner
Wagner was one of the two great opera composers of the 19th century (the other being Verdi). He was a composer with extremely vivid personality, whose works were grand and majestic, filled with mystery. They inherited the essence of Scandinavian cultural traditions and German classical music while also composing entirely new and brilliant chapters. Works like Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde have become immortal masterpieces in the history of opera.