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Wagner's musical education began in 1828, and a year later he was producing his earliest compositions, writing words and music, since lost, for his first opera attempt, Die Laune des Verliebten. [2] During the subsequent decade he began several more opera projects, none of which was successful although two were completed and one was staged ...
Rienzi (1842) was Wagner's first opera to be successfully staged. [158] The compositional style of these early works was conventional—the relatively more sophisticated Rienzi showing the clear influence of Grand Opera à la Spontini and Meyerbeer—and did not exhibit the innovations that would mark Wagner's place in musical history.
Lohengrin (pronounced [ˈloːənˌɡʁiːn] in German), WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach, and its sequel Lohengrin, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain.
Das Rheingold was Wagner's first attempt to write dramatic music in accordance with the principles he had enunciated in Opera and Drama, hence the general absence in the score of conventional operatic "numbers" in the form of arias, ensembles and choruses.
Poster for first Paris production of Wagner's opera Tannhäuser. Wagner substantially amended the opera for a special 1861 performance by the Paris Opéra. This had been requested by Emperor Napoleon III at the suggestion of Princess Pauline von Metternich, wife of the Austrian ambassador to France.
Die Feen was Wagner's first completed opera, composed in 1833, when he was 20 years old and working as a part-time chorus master in Würzburg. [2] [3] He gave it the description of Grosse romantische Oper (grand romantic opera). The year before he started composition, Wagner had abandoned his first attempt at writing an opera, Die Hochzeit (The ...
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.The works are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend, namely Norse legendary sagas and the Nibelungenlied.
Arrangements of Fromental Halévy's opera Le Guitarrero (c. 1840-42) [4] 62E: arrangement: Arrangements of Fromental Halévy's opera in five acts La reine de Chypre (c. 1840-1842) [4] 62F: arrangement: Arrangements of Daniel Auber's opera Zanetta for flute quartet (c. 1840-1842) [4] 74: arrangement: Orchestration of Spontini's La vestale (c ...