a.Richard Wagner was born on 1813, and die on 1883 in Venice, Italy. He was a german, composer, theatre director, and essayist. He was most famous for the western music in his operas which he wrote the poems which deliberately change the ordinary of the time people thought it was a "total art".
b.Richard Wagner has completely transformed the design of the opera from 1850, conceiving it not as entertainment but as a sacred drama. The Fairies (Die Feen), The Liebesverbot (Das Liebesverbot) and Rienzi operas are the youth. These works have nothing particularly remarkable and rarely played nowadays.With The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) and Tannhauser and Lohengrin, Wagner wrote his first great romantic operas. The composition of Tristan und Isolde , often considered his masterpiece. Next come The Meistersinger of Nuremberg (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and The Ring of the Nibelung (Der Ring des Nibelungen). The Ring of the Nibelung, also known as Tetralogy is a series of four operas based on German and Scandinavian mythology. The last opera of Wagner's Parsifal, is a contemplative work based on the Christian legend of the Holy Grail.Through his works and his theoretical essays, Wagner exerted a great influence in the world of lyrical music. Combining drama and music to create the musical drama, he made himself the champion of a new conception of the opera, in which the orchestra plays a no less important than the singers.
1.Richard Wagner wrote romantic operas.
“The music assemble with verse to form, since Wagner, the poetry” Stephane Mallarme
He also wrote racist essay like Judaism in music, he wrote opinions violently antisemitic. Frequently accusing the Jews, especially Jewish musicians.
2.Wagner was the author of his operas, very rare event in the history of the music scene.
In the Ring, each character (including the ring) is associated with a musical theme with ariations independently indicate psychological climate in which this character is changing is the famous "motto"
3. Throughout his life, in his conversations, his writings, Richard Wagner has stopped issuing opinions violently antisemitic. Frequently accusing the Jews, especially Jewish musicians, of being harmful alien to Germany, he recommended their assimilation to the Germanic culture.
The first essay of Wagner, Judaism in Music, was published in 1850. He wrote in particular that the German people was "repulsed" by the Jews because "their appearance and behavior of foreign" Jews "are anomalies of nature" chatting "to their voices squeaky, squealing and buzzing» .
