Richard Wagner

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composer conductor essayist human opera composer theatre director

Richard Wagner was a 19th-century German composer best known for his revolutionary operas and music dramas, which profoundly shaped Western classical music and artistic thought.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer ⓘ
conductor ⓘ
essayist ⓘ
human ⓘ
opera composer ⓘ
theatre director ⓘ
burialPlace Bayreuth ⓘ
surface form: Wahnfried, Bayreuth
child Eva Wagner ⓘ
Isolde Wagner ⓘ
Siegfried Wagner ⓘ
composerOf Das Rheingold ⓘ
Der Ring des Nibelungen ⓘ
Der fliegende Holländer ⓘ
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ⓘ
Die Walküre ⓘ
Götterdämmerung ⓘ
Lohengrin ⓘ
Parsifal ⓘ
Rienzi ⓘ
Siegfried ⓘ
Tannhäuser ⓘ
Tristan und Isolde ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Germany ⓘ
Kingdom of Saxony ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1813-05-22 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1883-02-13 ⓘ
founded Bayreuth ⓘ
surface form: Bayreuth Festival
fullName Richard Wagner self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Wilhelm Richard Wagner
genre music drama ⓘ
opera ⓘ
influenced Anton Bruckner ⓘ
Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ
Gustav Mahler ⓘ
Richard Strauss ⓘ
influencedBy Carl Maria von Weber ⓘ
Ludwig van Beethoven ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName German ⓘ
mannerOfDeath heart attack ⓘ
movement Romantic music ⓘ
nativeLanguage German ⓘ
notableFor expansion of chromatic harmony ⓘ
revolutionary operas ⓘ
use of leitmotifs ⓘ
notableIdea Gesamtkunstwerk ⓘ
notableWork Das Rheingold ⓘ
Der Ring des Nibelungen ⓘ
Der fliegende Holländer ⓘ
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ⓘ
Die Walküre ⓘ
Ragnarok ⓘ
surface form: Götterdämmerung

Lohengrin ⓘ
Parsifal ⓘ
Rienzi ⓘ
Siegfried ⓘ
Tannhäuser ⓘ
Tristan und Isolde ⓘ
occupation composer ⓘ
conductor ⓘ
polemicist ⓘ
theatre director ⓘ
placeOfBirth Leipzig ⓘ
placeOfDeath Venice ⓘ
religion Protestantism ⓘ
residence Bayreuth ⓘ
spouse Cosima Wagner ⓘ
Minna Planer ⓘ

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Leipzig → associatedWithPerson → Richard Wagner ⓘ
The Birth of Tragedy → dedicatedTo → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Richard Wagner → fullName → Richard Wagner self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Arthur Schopenhauer → influenced → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Christoph Willibald Gluck → influenced → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Hector Berlioz → influenced → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Ludwig van Beethoven → influenced → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Poetic Edda → influenced → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Arnold Schoenberg → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Claude Debussy → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Friedrich Nietzsche → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Giacomo Puccini → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Gustav Mahler → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Ludwig II of Bavaria → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Max Steiner → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
The Birth of Tragedy → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Thomas Mann → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Wassily Kandinsky → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Wilhelm Furtwängler → influencedBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Triumph des Willens → musicBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
film Un Chien Andalou → musicBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
subject surface form: Un Chien Andalou
University of Leipzig → notableAlumnus → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Ludwig II of Bavaria → patronOf → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Lyric Opera of Chicago → performsWorkBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ
Staatskapelle Dresden → premieredWorkBy → Richard Wagner ⓘ