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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883

Richard Wagner, b. Leipzig 1813; d. Venice 1883

Described by Donald Francis Tovey:  "Achieves absolute union of music with drama"

  • Richard Wagner (Wikipedia)
Nationality:
German

Works

"Kaiser Marsch"
"Siegfried Idyll"
"Siegfried-Idyll" (transcribed for organ, Edwin Lemare, 1865-1934)
Eine Sonate fur das Album von Frau Mathilde Wesendonk (1853)
Isolde's Liebstod (arr. Liszt)
March from "Tannhäuser" (transcribed for organ W.J. Westbrook)
Opera: "Die Meistersinger" - excerpt(s) from
Opera: "Die Walküre" (The Valkyrie) - excerpt(s) from
Opera: "Lohengrin" - excerpt(s) from
Opera: "Parsifal" - excerpt(s) from
Opera: "Rienzi" - excerpt(s) from
Opera: "Tannhäuser" - excerpt(s) from
Opera: "The Flying Dutchman" - excerpt(s) from
Opera: "Tristan and Isolde" - excerpt(s) from
Overture: "Die Meistersinger"
Overture: "Die Meistersinger," (arranged for organ by Edwin Lemare)
Overture: "Faust"
Overture: "Fliegender Holländer" (The Flying Dutchman)
Overture: "Rienzi"
Overture: "Tannhäuser"
Poem: " Dreams"
Poem: "The angel"
Ride of the Valkyries (transcribed for organ, Edwin Lemare, 1865-1934)
Song cycle: "Wessendonck Lieder" - excerpt(s) from

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