Richard Wagner
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most compose
Wagner in 1871
Wagner's birthplace, at 3, the Brühl, Leipzig
Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer (1835), by Alexander von Otterstedt
Wagner c. 1840, by Ernest Benedikt Kietz
Götterdämmerung
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Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D, is the last of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 17 August
Richard Wagner
…it as an example of Wagner's reactionary politics and antisemitism. When Wagner returned to writing the music for the last act of Siegfried and for Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) as the final part of the Ring, his style had changed once more to something more recognisable as "operatic" than the aural world…
Valhalla in flames, in an 1894 depiction by Max Brückner, one of the original set designers
The Norns weave the Rope of Destiny, an illustration for Wagner's Ring by Franz Stassen, 1914.
Brünnhilde is visited by her Valkyrie sister Waltraute (Arthur Rackham, 1912).
Stage design by Josef Hoffmann for original production in 1876 – Act II, Scene 2