He was a brilliant composer, a confirmed anti-Semite and an undeniably significant influence on the history of music. And today, he would have been 200 years old. That man, of course, was Richard ...
Sometimes a composer becomes so well known for a particular genre of music that other pieces go unrecognized. The following are three examples of composers who are famous for one thing but who ...
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is a devilishly difficult opera to perform well. At the very least, Composer Richard Wagner wrote requirements for a heldentenor of exceptional stamina, and power enough ...
Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and WEB Du Bois all drew on his work. Hitler was his most fateful disciple. Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood? At the beginning of Siegfried, the third opera in ...
In Germany, every crop-haired infant Siegfried, every pig-tailed little Brünnhilde counts Richard Wagner one of Nazidom’s special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and ...
As the Buffalo Philharmonic prepares to perform Wagner's operatic prelude to Die Meistersinger, I find myself grappling with the notion of participating in the rendition of music composed by an ...
EXCLUSIVE: Prolific German actor Thomas Kretschmann, star of movies including The Pianist, King Kong and the upcoming Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, is to play seminal and controversial German ...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt4cg699 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt4cg699.4 Given the importance that Schoenberg placed on the notion of ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Taking advantage of an overly long mid-“Ring” three-day break at Los ...
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