query: what type of music did richard wagner play?

title: Richard Wagner

text: and Nazism, the performance of his music in the State of Israel has been a source of controversy. Prose works by Wagner Other sources Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber

title: Richard Wagner

text: Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic,

title: Richard Wagner Conservatory

text: of the conservatory is Mirza Kapetanovic. The body of academic staff consists of approx. 30 professors and instructors, all of which either teach at other universities, or are members of renowned opera houses, orchestras and ensembles. Richard Wagner Conservatory The Richard Wagner Conservatory of Music in Vienna first began as a music school in 2009. Following extensive preparation the music school was then expanded to include a university level conservatory. As of 1 September 2013 the conservatory has been officially recognized by the Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture. It is based at two separate locations in the 12th

title: Richard Wagner

text: Trevor Howard in "Ludwig" (1972); Paul Nicholas in "Lisztomania" (1975); and Richard Burton in "Wagner" (1983). Jonathan Harvey's opera "Wagner Dream" (2007) intertwines the events surrounding Wagner's death with the story of Wagner's uncompleted opera outline "Die Sieger (The Victors)". Since Wagner's death, the Bayreuth Festival, which has become an annual event, has been successively directed by his widow, his son Siegfried, the latter's widow Winifred Wagner, their two sons Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner, and, presently, two of the composer's great-granddaughters, Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner. Since 1973, the festival has been overseen by the Richard-Wagner-Stiftung (Richard Wagner Foundation), the

title: Richard Wagner

text: school of the Dresdner Kreuzchor, at the expense of Geyer's brother. At the age of nine he was hugely impressed by the Gothic elements of Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischütz," which he saw Weber conduct. At this period Wagner entertained ambitions as a playwright. His first creative effort, listed in the "Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis" (the standard listing of Wagner's works) as WWV 1, was a tragedy called "Leubald." Begun when he was in school in 1826, the play was strongly influenced by Shakespeare and Goethe. Wagner was determined to set it to music, and persuaded his family to allow him

title: Katharina Wagner

text: Chamber Orchestra to play a concert in July 2011 at the Bayreuth town hall, to end a post-1945 boycott of Wagner's music in Israel. Her visit was canceled after hostility from Holocaust survivors. Der fliegende Holländer (Würzburg) Lohengrin (Budapest) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Bayreuth) Rienzi (Bremen) Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth) Katharina Wagner Katharina Wagner (born 21 May 1978 in Bayreuth) is a German opera stage-director and co-director of the Bayreuth Festival. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner, great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, and great-great granddaughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Wagner has staged "Der fliegende Holländer" in Würzburg and "Lohengrin"

title: Richard Wagner

text: to be Schopenhauer's philosophy, a deeply pessimistic view of the human condition. He remained an adherent of Schopenhauer for the rest of his life. One of Schopenhauer's doctrines was that music held a supreme role in the arts as a direct expression of the world's essence, namely, blind, impulsive will. This doctrine contradicted Wagner's view, expressed in "Opera and Drama", that the music in opera had to be subservient to the drama. Wagner scholars have argued that Schopenhauer's influence caused Wagner to assign a more commanding role to music in his later operas, including the latter half of the "Ring"

title: Richard Wagner

text: "Ring" as a work reflecting Christian ideals. Many of these later articles, including "What is German?" (1878, but based on a draft written in the 1860s), repeated Wagner's antisemitic preoccupations. Wagner completed "Parsifal" in January 1882, and a second Bayreuth Festival was held for the new opera, which premiered on 26 May. Wagner was by this time extremely ill, having suffered a series of increasingly severe angina attacks. During the sixteenth and final performance of "Parsifal" on 29 August, he entered the pit unseen during act 3, took the baton from conductor Hermann Levi, and led the performance to its

title: Dick Wagner

text: co-wrote songs for Mark Farner's solo début and a pair of albums for the star of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", Tim Curry, and more. In 1978, Wagner released a solo LP called "Richard Wagner", produced by Bob Ezrin, and released on Atlantic Records. The album title confused both record stores and disc jockeys, who relegated the record to the classical music bin, assuming it was a classical music record composed by the 19th-century classical composer with the same name. One of the best-known songs written by Wagner is "Only Women Bleed". Written during Wagner's days with the Frost and

title: Richard Wagner

text: the "Ring", "Das Rheingold" and "Die Walküre", were performed at Munich in 1869 and 1870, but Wagner retained his dream, first expressed in "A Communication to My Friends", to present the first complete cycle at a special festival with a new, dedicated, opera house. Minna had died of a heart attack on 25 January 1866 in Dresden. Wagner did not attend the funeral. Following Minna's death Cosima wrote to Hans von Bülow on a number of occasions asking him to grant her a divorce, but Bülow refused to concede this. He only consented after she had two more children with

title: Richard Wagner

text: move away from conventional harmony and tonality and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical music in the 20th century. Wagner felt that his musico-dramatical theories were most perfectly realised in this work with its use of "the art of transition" between dramatic elements and the balance achieved between vocal and orchestral lines. Completed in 1859, the work was given its first performance in Munich, conducted by Bülow, in June 1865. "Die Meistersinger" was originally conceived by Wagner in 1845 as a sort of comic pendant to "Tannhäuser". Like "Tristan", it was premiered in Munich under

title: Richard Wagner

text: operatic works are his primary artistic legacy. Unlike most opera composers, who generally left the task of writing the libretto (the text and lyrics) to others, Wagner wrote his own libretti, which he referred to as "poems". From 1849 onwards, he urged a new concept of opera often referred to as "music drama" (although he later rejected this term), in which all musical, poetic and dramatic elements were to be fused together—the "Gesamtkunstwerk". Wagner developed a compositional style in which the importance of the orchestra is equal to that of the singers. The orchestra's dramatic role in the later operas

title: Richard Wagner

text: had fallen for one of the leading ladies at Magdeburg, the actress Christine Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer and after the disaster of "Das Liebesverbot" he followed her to Königsberg, where she helped him to get an engagement at the theatre. The two married in Tragheim Church on 24 November 1836. In May 1837, Minna left Wagner for another man, and this was but only the first débâcle of a tempestuous marriage. In June 1837, Wagner moved to Riga (then in the Russian Empire), where he became music director of the local opera; having in this capacity engaged Minna's sister Amalie (also

title: Richard Wagner

text: his ideal of the fusion of drama and music in opera. In "Mein Leben", Wagner wrote "When I look back across my entire life I find no event to place beside this in the impression it produced on me," and claimed that the "profoundly human and ecstatic performance of this incomparable artist" kindled in him an "almost demonic fire." In 1831, Wagner enrolled at the Leipzig University, where he became a member of the Saxon student fraternity. He took composition lessons with the Thomaskantor Theodor Weinlig. Weinlig was so impressed with Wagner's musical ability that he refused any payment for

title: Richard Wagner

text: composed music to achieve popularity and, thereby, financial success, as opposed to creating genuine works of art. In "Opera and Drama" (1851), Wagner described the aesthetics of drama that he was using to create the "Ring" operas. Before leaving Dresden, Wagner had drafted a scenario that eventually became the four-opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen". He initially for a single opera, "Siegfrieds Tod" ("Siegfried's Death"), in 1848. After arriving in Zürich, he expanded the story with the opera "Der junge Siegfried" ("Young Siegfried"), which explored the hero's background. He completed the text of the cycle by writing the libretti for

title: Wolfgang Wagner

text: of the World into Music"). Wolfgang Wagner Wolfgang Wagner (30 August 191921 March 2010) was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966. From then on, he assumed total control until he retired in 2008, although many of the productions which he commissioned were severely criticized in their day. He had been plagued by family conflicts and criticism for many years. He was the son of Siegfried Wagner, the grandson of Richard Wagner, and the

title: International Association of Wagner Societies

text: of the German composer's opera "Die Walküre" ("The Valkyrie") in Munich. The brainchild of Wagner's longtime friend, the music publisher Emil Heckel, the first society was a simple, locally conceived venue for celebrating Wagner's music. In the wake of Wagner's difficulties in securing interest in the public subscription for his future Bayreuth Festival, Heckel suggested to the composer that he sponsor additional societies to help secure support. Wagner embraced the idea enthusiastically, and by 1872, societies had been established in Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig and London (the latter founded by Edward Dannreuther (1844-1905), the author of "Richard Wagner: His Tendencies and

title: Siegfried Wagner

text: See List of operas by Siegfried Wagner Siegfried Wagner Siegfried Wagner (6 June 18694 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. Helferich Siegfried Richard Wagner, nicknamed "Fidi," was born in 1869 to Richard Wagner and his future wife Cosima (née Liszt), at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Through his mother, he was a grandson of Franz Liszt, from whom he received some instruction in harmony. Some youthful compositions date from about 1882. After he completed his

title: What Richard Did

text: Festival in Turkey. The film was released on DVD in Ireland on 8 February 2013. What Richard Did What Richard Did is a 2012 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell. The film is loosely based on Kevin Power's "Bad Day in Blackrock", a fictionalised novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000. It won the best Irish film of the year award at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards and was the most commercially successful Irish film of 2012. It has screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and the

title: What Richard Did

text: What Richard Did What Richard Did is a 2012 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell. The film is loosely based on Kevin Power's "Bad Day in Blackrock", a fictionalised novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000. It won the best Irish film of the year award at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards and was the most commercially successful Irish film of 2012. It has screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival and was selected to screen at the Tribeca Film Festival in

title: Richard Wagner

text: of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, who thought the work "divinely composed", and that of the French newspaper "Le Figaro", which called the music "the dream of a lunatic". Amongst the disillusioned were Wagner's friend and disciple Friedrich Nietzsche, who, having published his eulogistic essay "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth" before the festival as part of his "Untimely Meditations", was bitterly disappointed by what he saw as Wagner's pandering to increasingly exclusivist German nationalism; his breach with Wagner began at this time. The festival firmly established Wagner as an artist of European, and indeed world, importance: attendees included Kaiser Wilhelm I,

title: Richard Wagner Conservatory

text: Richard Wagner Conservatory The Richard Wagner Conservatory of Music in Vienna first began as a music school in 2009. Following extensive preparation the music school was then expanded to include a university level conservatory. As of 1 September 2013 the conservatory has been officially recognized by the Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture. It is based at two separate locations in the 12th district of Vienna. The curriculum of each respective field of study at Richard Wagner Conservatory is structured according to semesters, equal to the structure of academic studies as implemented at Austrian Universities. The fields of study

title: Richard Wagner

text: "Tristan", which include the so-called Tristan chord. Wagner inspired great devotion. For a long period, many composers were inclined to align themselves with or against Wagner's music. Anton Bruckner and Hugo Wolf were greatly indebted to him, as were César Franck, Henri Duparc, Ernest Chausson, Jules Massenet, Richard Strauss, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Hans Pfitzner and numerous others. Gustav Mahler was devoted to Wagner and his music; aged 15, he sought him out on his 1875 visit to Vienna, became a renowned Wagner conductor, and his compositions are seen by Richard Taruskin as extending Wagner's "maximalization" of "the temporal and the

title: Richard Wagner

text: Wilhelm Richard Geyer. He almost certainly thought that Geyer was his biological father. Geyer's love of the theatre came to be shared by his stepson, and Wagner took part in his performances. In his autobiography "Mein Leben" Wagner recalled once playing the part of an angel. In late 1820, Wagner was enrolled at Pastor Wetzel's school at Possendorf, near Dresden, where he received some piano instruction from his Latin teacher. He struggled to play a proper scale at the keyboard and preferred playing theatre overtures by ear. Following Geyer's death in 1821, Richard was sent to the Kreuzschule, the boarding

title: What Richard Did

text: Power, author of the book that was the source material for the movie, the university scenes at the end of the film were shot at University College Dublin. Reviews for "What Richard Did" were overwhelmingly positive. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 93% approval rating with an average rating of 7.6/10 based on 30 reviews. On the review aggregator Metacritic, the film has a score of 80 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Peter Bradshaw, writing in "The Guardian", called the film slow-burning and disturbing. "Abrahamson shows that whatever the failings and weaknesses

title: What Richard Did

text: Unlike Abrahamson's previous two films, the screenplay for "What Richard Did" was not written by Mark O'Halloran but by Malcolm Campbell. The details of the plot deviate significantly from the source novel. The director worked with the cast for a full year in advance of production while script development was ongoing, holding a series of workshops in an effort to make successive drafts more reflective of contemporary Irish youth culture. Shot on location in Dublin and Wicklow, the film was financed by the Irish Film Board and Screen Scene, and was produced by Element Pictures. At the request of Kevin

title: What Richard Did

text: of the young, it is their elders who insist on wriggling away from blame. "What Richard Did" is an engrossing and intelligent drama that throbs in the mind for hours after the final credits". In February 2013, the film picked up five awards at the 10th Irish Film & Television Awards including the award for Best Film. Jack Reynor won for Actor Lead Film whilst Lenny Abrahamson and Malcolm Campbell picked up awards for Best Director and Script with Nathan Nugent winning for Editing Film. In May 2013, It won the Golden Tulip (best movie) at The Istanbul International Film

title: Richard Wagner Foundation

text: Richard Wagner Foundation The Richard Wagner Foundation (in German Richard-Wagner-Stiftung) was formed in 1973, when, faced with overwhelming criticism and infighting amongst the descendants of Richard Wagner, the Bayreuth Festival and its assets were transferred to the newly created Foundation. The board of directors included members of the Wagner family and others appointed by the state. The Wagner family handed over the Festspielhaus and the Richard Wagner Archive to the Foundation and donated Wagner's villa Wahnfried to the town of Bayreuth. In 1976 the National Archive of the Richard Wagner Foundation (formerly known as the Richard Wagner Family Archive or

title: What Richard Did

text: three agree to keep the incident a secret, no-one else (apart from Lara) being directly aware of their involvement. Lara reassures Richard that she lied to Garda investigators to protect Richard, telling them that she had left the party with Richard before the brawl broke out. Richard attends a Garda station and gives a false statement to this effect. He tells the truth to his father, Peter (Lars Mikkelsen), who is distraught and tells him to stay alone at the family's beach house; while there, Richard breaks down in panic over what has happened. A few days later, Peter has

title: Richard Wagner Foundation

text: Wahnfried Archive), was deposited with the Foundation. In 2008 the Foundation's 24 board members, mostly descendants of Wagner, selected Katharina Wagner and her sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier to lead the Bayreuth Festival following the decision of Wolfgang Wagner to stand down. Richard Wagner Foundation The Richard Wagner Foundation (in German Richard-Wagner-Stiftung) was formed in 1973, when, faced with overwhelming criticism and infighting amongst the descendants of Richard Wagner, the Bayreuth Festival and its assets were transferred to the newly created Foundation. The board of directors included members of the Wagner family and others appointed by the state. The Wagner family handed

title: L. Wagner Type Foundry

text: These foundry types were produced by the Wagner Type Foundryr: L. Wagner Type Foundry The Ludwig Wagner Type Foundry was established in 1902 in Leipzig after the veteran punch cutter Ludwig Wagner took over the small foundry Gundelach & Ebersbach in 1901. The beginning of his modern type production and the extension of his business happened before 1914. The large manufacturing facilities in East Leipzig suffered extensive bomb damage during World War II. In 1949, the company was given new facilities in the Southwestern part of Leipzig. Ludwig Wagner AG was incorporated into Typoart by the East German government in

title: At the Grave of Richard Wagner

text: of Berg's 'String Quartet (Op. 3)' is precise and the quartet makes Webern's 'Five Pieces (Op 5). sound easy to play as the compositions seem to appear magically, shift color and vanish." At the Grave of Richard Wagner At the Grave of Richard Wagner is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing works by Alban Berg and Anton Webern, and a brief "romantic elegy" by Franz Liszt. According to Alan Artner, writing in the "Chicago Tribune", "Few other recorded performances have had qualities of tone conveying as beautifully the scores' ripe, fibrillating atmosphere." Daniel Webster, in the "Milwaukee Journal

title: L. Wagner Type Foundry

text: L. Wagner Type Foundry The Ludwig Wagner Type Foundry was established in 1902 in Leipzig after the veteran punch cutter Ludwig Wagner took over the small foundry Gundelach & Ebersbach in 1901. The beginning of his modern type production and the extension of his business happened before 1914. The large manufacturing facilities in East Leipzig suffered extensive bomb damage during World War II. In 1949, the company was given new facilities in the Southwestern part of Leipzig. Ludwig Wagner AG was incorporated into Typoart by the East German government in 1960 and Wagner himself moved to the German Federal Republic.

text: Every year members of the local Wagner Societies gather for the Richard Wagner International Congress, to share experiences and to plan for the future in sessions. The congress takes place in a different city each year: Congresses have also taken place in Frankfurt am Main, Bordeaux, Trier, and Budapest. International Association of Wagner Societies The International Association of Wagner Societies ("Der Richard-Wagner-Verband International e.V.", also known as "Der RWVI") is an affiliation of Wagner societies ("Richard Wagner-Verband") that promotes interest and research into the works of Richard Wagner, raises funds for scholarships for young music students, singers, and instrumentalists, and

text: International Association of Wagner Societies The International Association of Wagner Societies ("Der Richard-Wagner-Verband International e.V.", also known as "Der RWVI") is an affiliation of Wagner societies ("Richard Wagner-Verband") that promotes interest and research into the works of Richard Wagner, raises funds for scholarships for young music students, singers, and instrumentalists, and supports the annual Bayreuth Festival. It also sponsors symposia, holds singing competitions for Wagnerian voices, and issues awards for stage direction and stagings of Wagner's operas. The association is a nonprofit organization. The first Richard Wagner society was launched in Mannheim, Germany in 1871, one year after the premiere

title: Richard Wagner (judge)

text: Richard Wagner (judge) Richard R. Wagner, (born April 2, 1957) is a Canadian judge who serves as the 18th and current Chief Justice of Canada. He was sworn into office on December 18, 2017, having previously served as a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He previously sat on the Quebec Court of Appeal. He is the son of former Progressive Conservative MP and Senator Claude Wagner. Wagner was born in Montreal, the son of Gisèle (née Normandeau) and Claude Wagner. He studied at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Montreal before receiving his Bachelor of Social Sciences in Political

title: Dick Wagner

text: Dick Wagner Richard Allen "Dick" Wagner (December 14, 1942 – July 30, 2014) was an American rock music guitarist, songwriter and author best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, and KISS. He also fronted his own Michigan-based bands, The Frost and The Bossmen. Born in Oelwein, Iowa, Wagner grew up in the Owosso, Michigan, area and graduated from Waterford Township high school in 1961. His first band, called the Bossmen, was a favourite in the Detroit area and scored radio play with the Wagner-penned composition "Baby Boy", "You're the Girl for Me" and others. Wagner formed his

title: Richard-Wagner-Platz (Leipzig)

text: Richard-Wagner-Platz (Leipzig) Richard-Wagner-Platz is a square in Leipzig in the northwest of Leipzig city centre. The square is named after the composer Richard Wagner, whose house of birth was nearby. In the 10th century, on the grounds of "Richard-Wagner-Platz" was the Slavic market of the Lipsk settlement, from which the city of Leipzig developed. The place lay at the crossing of the Via Regia coming from Merseburg and leading further to Meissen to the Via Imperii, an imperial road, later "Hainstraße". At the southern end of the eastern side of the square begins the Brühl, an old street in which

title: Richard-Wagner-Platz (Leipzig)

title: Richard Wagner Platz (Berlin)

text: Richard Wagner Platz (Berlin) Richard Wagner Platz (formerly: "Wilhelmplatz") is in Berlin's Charlottenburg district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Today, the former market place is mainly perceived as a traffic junction, only a small segment of the square towards "Schustehrusstraße" is regularly used for weekly market purposes. In 1824 the former market place was named "Wilhelmplatz". Since there was already a prominent square of the same name in Berlin-Mitte, the Charlottenburg area was renamed "Richard-Wagner-Platz" on 12 December 1934 after the composer Richard Wagner. Its buildings were regularly renovated in accordance with the architectural styles of the time and consisted mainly of Gründerzeit

title: Richard Wagner Platz (Berlin)

text: cross at Richard-Wagner-Platz. In 1906, the square was given its own underground station, which was replaced in 1974–1978 by the present Richard-Wagner-Platz underground station, where several bus lines of Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe stop. Richard Wagner Platz (Berlin) Richard Wagner Platz (formerly: "Wilhelmplatz") is in Berlin's Charlottenburg district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Today, the former market place is mainly perceived as a traffic junction, only a small segment of the square towards "Schustehrusstraße" is regularly used for weekly market purposes. In 1824 the former market place was named "Wilhelmplatz". Since there was already a prominent square of the same name in Berlin-Mitte, the Charlottenburg

title: Richard Paul Wagner

text: of the steam and oil engines and in 1936, the gold medal of service from the Society of British Locomotive Engineers. In 1942 he was awarded the War Merit Cross. He died on 14 February 1953 at Velburg in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany. Richard Paul Wagner Richard Felix Paul Wagner (25 August 1882 – 14 February 1953) was the Chief of Design in the design office of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Germany from its inception in 1922 to 1942. He held the rank of "Reichsbahnoberrat". Richard Wagner was born in Berlin on 25 August 1882 and studied

title: Richard Paul Wagner

text: Richard Paul Wagner Richard Felix Paul Wagner (25 August 1882 – 14 February 1953) was the Chief of Design in the design office of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Germany from its inception in 1922 to 1942. He held the rank of "Reichsbahnoberrat". Richard Wagner was born in Berlin on 25 August 1882 and studied at the Charlottenburg Technical High School there from 1901 to 1906. In 1920 he took over as head of the Berlin-Grunewald Locomotive Testing Office. In 1922 he was on the Enger Committee for the Standardisation of Locomotives and was employed by the Reichsbahn Central Office. In

title: Richard Wagner (judge)

text: a jurist. His grandfather was a German Jewish immigrant originally from Bavaria. He has two children who are also lawyers. Richard Wagner (judge) Richard R. Wagner, (born April 2, 1957) is a Canadian judge who serves as the 18th and current Chief Justice of Canada. He was sworn into office on December 18, 2017, having previously served as a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He previously sat on the Quebec Court of Appeal. He is the son of former Progressive Conservative MP and Senator Claude Wagner. Wagner was born in Montreal, the son of Gisèle (née Normandeau)

title: At the Grave of Richard Wagner

text: At the Grave of Richard Wagner At the Grave of Richard Wagner is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing works by Alban Berg and Anton Webern, and a brief "romantic elegy" by Franz Liszt. According to Alan Artner, writing in the "Chicago Tribune", "Few other recorded performances have had qualities of tone conveying as beautifully the scores' ripe, fibrillating atmosphere." Daniel Webster, in the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel", wrote that " In traditional repertoire, the Kronos Quartet has its own distinctive voice. It plays Liszt's romantic elegy, 'At the Grave of Richard Wagner,' with rich, dark sounds. The performance

title: Richard Wagner

text: Nazi hierarchy as a whole did not share Hitler's enthusiasm for Wagner's operas and resented attending these lengthy epics at Hitler's insistence. Guido Fackler has researched evidence that indicates that it is possible that Wagner's music was used at the Dachau concentration camp in 1933–34 to "reeducate" political prisoners by exposure to "national music". There has been no evidence to support claims, sometimes made, that his music was played at Nazi death camps during the Second World War, and Pamela Potter has noted that Wagner's music was explicitly off-limits in the camps. Because of the associations of Wagner with antisemitism

title: Richard Wagner (novelist)

text: still lives in Berlin. Richard Wagner (novelist) Richard Wagner (born April 10, 1952) is a Romanian-born German novelist. He has published a number of short stories, novels and essays. A member of Romania's German minority, like his former wife, Herta Müller, he studied German and Romanian literature at Timișoara University. He then worked as a German language school teacher and as a journalist, and published poetry and short stories in German. He was also a member of Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary society. In 1987, Wagner and Müller left Romania for West Berlin, to escape communist oppression and censorship in

title: Richard Wagner (novelist)

text: Richard Wagner (novelist) Richard Wagner (born April 10, 1952) is a Romanian-born German novelist. He has published a number of short stories, novels and essays. A member of Romania's German minority, like his former wife, Herta Müller, he studied German and Romanian literature at Timișoara University. He then worked as a German language school teacher and as a journalist, and published poetry and short stories in German. He was also a member of Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary society. In 1987, Wagner and Müller left Romania for West Berlin, to escape communist oppression and censorship in Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania. He

title: Richard-Wagner-Straße (Munich)

text: the Palaeontological State Collection with the Palaeontological Museum (No. 10), and the Isar Amperwerke, today E.ON. Richard-Wagner-Straße (Munich) The Richard-Wagner-Straße is a street in the Bavarian state capital Munich. It is named after the composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883), who lived in the vicinity of Brienner Straße 37 in 1864-65. The short street was built in 1897 in the course of the planned development of Maxvorstadt and forms part of the large right-angled street system of this district. It leads from Brienner Straße in the north-east direction to Gabelsbergerstraße. At about the half way point, it curves. The houses of the

title: Richard-Wagner-Straße (Munich)

text: Richard-Wagner-Straße (Munich) The Richard-Wagner-Straße is a street in the Bavarian state capital Munich. It is named after the composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883), who lived in the vicinity of Brienner Straße 37 in 1864-65. The short street was built in 1897 in the course of the planned development of Maxvorstadt and forms part of the large right-angled street system of this district. It leads from Brienner Straße in the north-east direction to Gabelsbergerstraße. At about the half way point, it curves. The houses of the street were built between 1899 and 1906 mostly designed by the architect Leonhard Romeis (1854-1904). In

title: What Richard Did

text: jealous of Lara's ongoing platonic friendship with Conor and, when Richard is barred from re-entering the house while the two remain inside, tensions rise. Conor throws a punch at Richard, at which point two mutual friends, Cian (Fionn Walton) and Stephen (Gavin Drea), step in to defend Richard and deliver several blows to Conor, with Richard kicking him in the head. The group go home, leaving Conor to stagger back towards the party. The next morning, Richard is shocked to learn that Conor was later found dead outside the house. Horrified, he meets up with Cian and Stephen, and the

title: Richard Wagner

text: Wagner; another daughter, named Eva, after the heroine of "Meistersinger", and a son Siegfried, named for the hero of the "Ring". The divorce was finally sanctioned, after delays in the legal process, by a Berlin court on 18 July 1870. Richard and Cosima's wedding took place on 25 August 1870. On Christmas Day of that year, Wagner arranged a surprise performance (its premiere) of the "Siegfried Idyll" for Cosima's birthday. The marriage to Cosima lasted to the end of Wagner's life. Wagner, settled into his new-found domesticity, turned his energies towards completing the "Ring" cycle. He had not abandoned polemics:

title: Richard Wagner

text: life was characterised by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors. His controversial writings on music, drama and politics have attracted extensive comment, notably, since the late 20th century, where they express antisemitic sentiments. The effect of his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century; his influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theatre. Richard Wagner was born to an ethnic German family in Leipzig, who lived at No 3, the Brühl ("The House of the Red and White Lions") in the Jewish quarter.

title: What We Did

text: quietest albums in Michael Gira’s catalog." What We Did What We Did is a collaborative studio album by Swans frontman Michael Gira and Windsor for the Derby member Dan Matz. It was released on November 13, 2001 through Gira's Young God Records label. "What We Did" has a considerably more pop-oriented and accessible sound, compared to Gira's other solo works. The majority of the lyrics on the album was written by Matz. Allmusic critic Thom Jurek described the album as "a finely wrought album of relayed styles and layered textures enfolding one another into a music that could have only

title: What We Did

text: What We Did What We Did is a collaborative studio album by Swans frontman Michael Gira and Windsor for the Derby member Dan Matz. It was released on November 13, 2001 through Gira's Young God Records label. "What We Did" has a considerably more pop-oriented and accessible sound, compared to Gira's other solo works. The majority of the lyrics on the album was written by Matz. Allmusic critic Thom Jurek described the album as "a finely wrought album of relayed styles and layered textures enfolding one another into a music that could have only been made by these two men,

title: What Richard Did

text: New York in April 2013. Richard Karlsen (Jack Reynor) is the well-mannered, intelligent, and undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of teenagers in Dublin's Southside, having been a schoolboy rugby player for the Raglan Hall Senior Cup team. Most of the group have just left secondary school, and they are enjoying their last summer before university. Richard becomes romantically interested in Lara Hogan (Róisín Murphy), a girl whose boyfriend is Conor Harris (Sam Keeley), one of Richard's teammates. Richard gradually woos her away, souring his relationship with Conor. Things come to a head during a late-night house party: Richard is

title: Richard Wagner

text: and his first published work, "The Birth of Tragedy", proposed Wagner's music as the Dionysian "rebirth" of European culture in opposition to Apollonian rationalist "decadence". Nietzsche broke with Wagner following the first Bayreuth Festival, believing that Wagner's final phase represented a pandering to Christian pieties and a surrender to the new German Reich. Nietzsche expressed his displeasure with the later Wagner in "The Case of Wagner" and "Nietzsche contra Wagner". The poets Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine worshipped Wagner. Édouard Dujardin, whose influential novel "Les Lauriers sont coupés" is in the form of an interior monologue inspired by

title: Avant-garde music

text: Webern in 1945, but others disagree. For example, Ryan Minor writes that this period began with the work of Richard Wagner, whereas Edward Lowinsky cites Josquin des Prez. The term may also be used to refer to any post-1945 tendency of modernist music not definable as experimental music, though sometimes including a type of experimental music characterized by the rejection of tonality. A commonly cited example of avant-garde music is John Cage's "4'33"" (1952), a piece which instructs the performer(s) not to play their instrument(s) during its entire duration. Although some modernist music is also avant-garde, a distinction can be

title: The Case of Wagner

text: The Case of Wagner The Case of Wagner () is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1888. Subtitled "A Musician's Problem", it has also been known as "The Wagner Case" in English. The book is a critique of Richard Wagner and the announcement of Nietzsche's rupture with the German artist, who had involved himself too much, in Nietzsche's eyes, in the "Völkisch" movement and antisemitism. His music is no longer represented as a possible "philosophical affect," and Wagner is ironically compared to Georges Bizet. However, Nietzsche presents Wagner as only a particular symptom of a broader

title: What Katy Did

text: up: "What Katy Did at School" and "What Katy Did Next". Two further sequels relating the adventures of Katy's younger siblings were also published—"Clover" and "In the High Valley". The books were frequently reprinted and all are available online. Coolidge modeled Katy on her own childhood self, and the other 'Little Carrs' on her brothers and sisters. The title is a play on the katydid, a family of insects – which explains the insects on the first edition book cover. 12-year-old Katy Carr lives with her widowed father and her two brothers and three sisters in Burnet, a small midwestern

title: What Did I Do?

text: Australian iTunes Store. On Boxing Day 2011, a remix by Sander van Doorn was released to Beatport, released on Doorn Records. The single is billed to Kele vs. Sander van Doorn featuring Lucy Taylor. A music video (simply a re-edited version of the original video) was released. The songs music video was released on 13 September 2011 to Kele's official YouTube channel. As of 23 November 2011, the video has 295939 views. The music video was directed by Nova Dando, with the dancers styled by Nadine Artois. What Did I Do? "What Did I Do?" is a song by Kele

title: Richard Wagner

text: Wagnerian music, founded a journal dedicated to Wagner, "La Revue Wagnérienne", to which J. K. Huysmans and Téodor de Wyzewa contributed. In a list of major cultural figures influenced by Wagner, Bryan Magee includes D. H. Lawrence, Aubrey Beardsley, Romain Rolland, Gérard de Nerval, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Rainer Maria Rilke and numerous others. In the 20th century, W. H. Auden once called Wagner "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived", while Thomas Mann and Marcel Proust were heavily influenced by him and discussed Wagner in their novels. He is also discussed in some of the works of James Joyce. Wagnerian themes

title: Wagner (film)

text: (including his rampant anti-semitism). Shortly before his death, Wagner and Liszt reflect on Wagner's life: the people he has known, the events that occurred and the music he composed. "Wagner" by A. C. H. Smith. In German and Italian (1983) . English-language edition (2012) . Now available also in English For more details see Wagner (film) Wagner is a 1983 television miniseries on the life of Richard Wagner. The title role was played by Richard Burton. It was directed by Tony Palmer and written by Charles Wood. The film was later released on DVD as a ten-part miniseries. Other main

title: Look What I Did

text: I Were You I Wouldn't<nowiki>"</nowiki> in January 2016 on their YouTube account, followed by "Fireball" in June 2016, their first songs released since 'Zanzibar III : Analog Prison'. The band was named after friend's child said the phrase 'Mommy, look what I did', about a drawing to her mother when Barry was talking to her over the phone discussing what the band's name should be. Look What I Did Look What I Did is an American post-hardcore band, formed in 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The music combines elements of jazz/fusion, hardcore, metal, and progressive pop punk. The band is

title: Richard Wagner

text: amply discussed in his essay "Oper und Drama". The first two components of the "Ring" cycle were "Das Rheingold" ("The Rhinegold"), which was completed in 1854, and "Die Walküre" ("The Valkyrie"), which was finished in 1856. In "Das Rheingold", with its "relentlessly talky 'realism' [and] the absence of lyrical 'numbers, Wagner came very close to the musical ideals of his 1849–51 essays. "Die Walküre", which contains what is virtually a traditional aria (Siegmund's "Winterstürme" in the first act), and the quasi-choral appearance of the Valkyries themselves, shows more "operatic" traits, but has been assessed by Barry Millington as "the music

title: Wagner (film)

text: Wagner (film) Wagner is a 1983 television miniseries on the life of Richard Wagner. The title role was played by Richard Burton. It was directed by Tony Palmer and written by Charles Wood. The film was later released on DVD as a ten-part miniseries. Other main roles were played by Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Craven, Marthe Keller, Ronald Pickup, Miguel Herz-Kestranek and László Gálffi. Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir Laurence Olivier played ministers of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The music of Wagner was specially recorded for the film, and conducted by Sir Georg Solti. Tony Palmer's original concept

title: What I Did Right

text: daughter. All three examples are connected by a chorus stating ""I'll take this one day and figure out what I did right / And I'll do it the same way for the rest of my life."" Deborah Evans Price of "Billboard" reviewed the song favorably, saying that "Like 'I Hope You Dance'…the song will touch a universal chord with everyone who has experienced a moment so perfect they wish they could capture it and live it over again." What I Did Right "What I Did Right" is a song recorded by American country music group Sons of the Desert. It

title: Look What I Did

text: Look What I Did Look What I Did is an American post-hardcore band, formed in 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The music combines elements of jazz/fusion, hardcore, metal, and progressive pop punk. The band is known for its intense live show, described by Cincinnati CityBeat as a "live act capable of unleashing a scary, uncontrolled intensity bordering on dangerous," and oft-satirical eccentric lyrics. Look What I Did was formed in 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee by singer Barry Donegan and guitarist Colby Shea. Miles McPherson (drums, currently drumming for Kelly Clarkson) and Chris Bradley (bass) were added before the band's first

title: What Did I Do?

text: What Did I Do? "What Did I Do?" is a song by Kele Okereke, released as the first single from his EP "The Hunter". The song's music video was released on 13 September 2011, with the song being released as a digital single in Japan 10 days later. The song features vocals from singer Lucy Taylor. The single was produced by constant collaborator XXXChange and mixed by Sub Focus. The single's cover is the same as the cover for "The Hunter" EP. On 16 November 2011, Liberator Music released a remix of the single by All The Lights to the

title: What Did You Expect? (film)

text: live. The film is being distributed by MVD Entertainment, and was released on DVD in November 2012. It is also available on iTunes, Hulu, and Video-on-Demand. Writing in Punk News, John Gentile said, "The wilder songs, like 'Audiowhore' where bassist Matt Gentling just gets completely down, stomping around like a T-rex, are nearly berserk, with the band approaching a Stooges-type thrash. 'What Did You Expect?' could pass for Fugazi's wilder side. Gentling just goes nuts on the bass, which is wild. Likewise, the mid-tempo songs like "Freezing Point" have an inherent urgency." What Did You Expect? (film) What Did You

title: What Richard Did

text: ascertained through contacts that the Garda investigation is focusing on gatecrashers to the party, and that there are no separate inquiries or suspects. Richard attends a wake for Conor with his rugby teammates, but, after hearing an emotional speech from Conor's mother (who is incredulous at the lack of witnesses to the attack) during the funeral mass, he is consumed by guilt. He privately tells Lara that he plans to turn himself in to the authorities, and suggests eloping with her, but he is seen doing neither. The film ends with Richard in a lecture hall, beginning his university studies.

title: Richard Wagner

text: under the direction of Ferdinand Hiller. Another Wagner detractor was the French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, who wrote to Hiller after attending Wagner's Paris concert on 25 January 1860 at which Wagner conducted the overtures to "Der fliegende Holländer" and "Tannhäuser", the preludes to "Lohengrin" and "Tristan und Isolde", and six other extracts from "Tannhäuser" and "Lohengrin": "I had imagined that I was going to meet music of an innovative kind but was astonished to find a pale imitation of Berlioz ... I do not like all the music of Berlioz while appreciating his marvellous understanding of certain instrumental effects ...

title: Richard Wagner

text: the 20th century Wagner's music was parodied by Paul Hindemith and Hanns Eisler, among others. Wagner's followers (known as Wagnerians or Wagnerites) have formed many societies dedicated to Wagner's life and work. Wagner has been the subject of many biographical films. The earliest was a silent film made by Carl Froelich in 1913 and featured in the title role the composer Giuseppe Becce, who also wrote the score for the film (as Wagner's music, still in copyright, was not available). Amongst other film portrayals of Wagner are: Alan Badel in "Magic Fire" (1955); Lyndon Brook in "Song Without End" (1960);

title: Wagner-Mozart Music Hall

text: Wagner-Mozart Music Hall Wagner-Mozart Music Hall was a historic building located in Mason City, Iowa, United States. Built in 1936, this was one of, if not the first, building designed for a school music program. The concrete and brick Moderne structure was designed by Hansen & Waggoner, and built by local workers from the Works Progress Administration who used local materials. The building contained rehearsal space for instrumental music programs and a large band and orchestra room. There were two entrances into the building with caps above them. One was marked "Wagner" and the other "Mozart." One entrance led into

title: Richard Wagner Platz (Berlin)

text: style buildings until 1945. After extensive destruction during the Second World War, a large number of modern buildings were erected, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. To the west of Richard-Wagner-Platz is Charlottenburg Palace and directly to the east on "Otto-Suhr-Allee" is Charlottenburg City Hall, built in 1905. Only a few of the former Gründerzeit style buildings have survived, the face of the square is dominated by new buildings. A residential and commercial building at the eastern end of "Schustehrusstraße" was designed in 1907/1908 by the architect Gustav Seibt and is now a listed building. The streets "Otto-Suhr-Allee" and "Wintersteinstraße/Richard-Wagner-Straße"

title: Richard-Wagner-Platz (Leipzig)

text: Theater, also the "Komödienhaus", built in 1766 on the foundations of the "Ranstädter Bastei". After 1839 the square was called "Theaterplatz". The Lindenau tram line (first a horse-drawn railway, later a tram) crossed the square diagonally from 22 July 1882, crossing the tracks of the Ring tram line coming from the Brühl and turning into the "Ranstädter Steinweg". The line was closed on 20 July 1964. On 22 May 1913, the 100th birthday of composer and conductor Richard Wagner, born in Brühl 1, "Theaterplatz" was renamed "Richard-Wagner-Platz". Wagner's birthplace was on the corner of Brühl/Theaterplatz. It was demolished in 1886

title: Look What I Did

text: the band signed a deal with new label Modernist Movement. The album "Atlas Drugged" was released on February 9, 2010 via Modernist Movement Recordings. Atlas Drugged was also produced by Brian Virtue. Decibel magazine referred to the band in a review of Atlas Drugged, "Look What I Did crush on political philosophers, put Latin words in their song titles and generally get off on being a bunch of wiseasses to spazzed-out Adderall punk.". The album title is play on Ayn Rand's 1957 novel 'Atlas Shrugged' In 2013, Look What I Did began revealing songs set to be released on their

title: Wagner e Venezia

text: pinnacles from the pianist/composer's early output". "All compositions by Richard Wagner" Wagner e Venezia Wagner e Venezia is a live album by pianist Uri Caine's Ensemble featuring compositions by Richard Wagner recorded in Venice and released on the Winter & Winter label in 1997. In his review for Allmusic, Stephen Cook said " For the most part, the music moves at a lithe pace, matching the festive sounds of the crowd with exuberant and playful performances. Maybe not the right fit for classical purists, but certainly a fine offering for the adventurous listener". Writing for All About Jazz, C. Michael

title: Verena Wagner Lafferentz

text: Wagner Festival. Verena Wagner Lafferentz Verena Wagner Lafferentz (born 2 December 1920) is the fourth child and youngest daughter of Winifred and Siegfried Wagner and the granddaughter of German composer Richard Wagner. Verena Wagner grew up in the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth and attended the Obernkirchener rural school. Adolf Hitler was a great fan of Wagner's music and became very close to Verena's mother, Winifred Wagner (there were even rumours that they would marry). Hitler also befriended her children and treated them as his own. Indeed, in 1940 Verena Wagner and Hitler were also rumoured to be romantically linked. "Many

title: Richard Wagner

text: in September 1856, but by June 1857 he had completed only the first two acts. He decided to put the work aside to concentrate on a new idea: "Tristan und Isolde," based on the Arthurian love story "Tristan and Iseult." One source of inspiration for "Tristan und Isolde" was the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, notably his "The World as Will and Representation," to which Wagner had been introduced in 1854 by his poet friend Georg Herwegh. Wagner later called this the most important event of his life. His personal circumstances certainly made him an easy convert to what he understood

title: What I Did Right

text: What I Did Right "What I Did Right" is a song recorded by American country music group Sons of the Desert. It was released in February 2001 as the third single from the album "Change". The song reached number 22 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Lead singer Drew Womack wrote the song with Sonny LeMaire. The song is a ballad about treasuring moments in the narrator's life, using three examples: an expression of pride from a grandfather who fought in World War II, of love from the narrator's wife, and of comfort from the narrator's newborn

title: Melinda Wagner

text: James Saporito, and their children. Melinda Wagner Melinda Jane Wagner (born 1957 in Philadelphia) is a US composer, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in music. Her undergraduate degree is from Hamilton College. She received her graduates degrees from University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania. She also served as Composer-in-Residence at the University of Texas (Austin) and at the ‘Bravo!’ Vail Valley Music Festival. Some of her teachers included Richard Wernick, George Crumb, Shulamit Ran, and Jay Reise. A resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Wagner won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for her "Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion".

title: Melinda Wagner

text: Melinda Wagner Melinda Jane Wagner (born 1957 in Philadelphia) is a US composer, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in music. Her undergraduate degree is from Hamilton College. She received her graduates degrees from University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania. She also served as Composer-in-Residence at the University of Texas (Austin) and at the ‘Bravo!’ Vail Valley Music Festival. Some of her teachers included Richard Wernick, George Crumb, Shulamit Ran, and Jay Reise. A resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Wagner won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for her "Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion". Prize. The Chicago Symphony has

title: What They Play

text: What They Play What They Play was a video game-centric website aimed at helping parents learn about content in video games, helping them decide what games their children should play. It was the first of several websites to launch under "What They Like, Inc.", other sites featuring books, movies and music followed. The site was launched in 2007 by two former Ziff Davis members Ira Becker, executive vice-president of the Game Group, and ex-1UP.com writer and Senior vice-president of the Game Group John Davison. Davison announced his departure from Ziff in August 2007, with Becker's announcement soon following. The two

title: Verena Wagner Lafferentz

text: Verena Wagner Lafferentz Verena Wagner Lafferentz (born 2 December 1920) is the fourth child and youngest daughter of Winifred and Siegfried Wagner and the granddaughter of German composer Richard Wagner. Verena Wagner grew up in the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth and attended the Obernkirchener rural school. Adolf Hitler was a great fan of Wagner's music and became very close to Verena's mother, Winifred Wagner (there were even rumours that they would marry). Hitler also befriended her children and treated them as his own. Indeed, in 1940 Verena Wagner and Hitler were also rumoured to be romantically linked. "Many people affirm

title: Schott Music

text: the grandson of Bernhard Schott, succeeded in winning the exclusive collaboration of Richard Wagner, and Schott published "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", the complete "Ring des Nibelungen" and "Parsifal". The connection with Wagner proved extremely expensive for the publishing house: on 21 October 1862, Franz Schott wrote to Wagner: "Anyway, no music publisher can possibly satisfy your needs, this can only be done by an enormously rich banker or a prince who has got millions ..." Wagner did indeed find his generous prince in the person of Ludwig II, the young King of Bavaria.. Since there were no descendants, the Schott

title: What Did I Do to You?

text: What Did I Do to You? "What Did I Do to You?" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 1989 album, "Affection". It was written by Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, and produced by Devaney and Morris. The song received positive reviews from music critics. "What Did I Do to You?" was released as the fourth European single on 30 April 1990. It included three previously unreleased songs written by Stansfield, Devaney and Morris: "My Apple Heart," "Lay Me Down" and "Something's Happenin'." "What Did I Do to You?" was remixed by Mark Saunders and

title: Richard Wagner

text: design are strongly inspired by "Der Ring des Nibelungen", musical excerpts from which are frequently used in the film's soundtrack. Not all reaction to Wagner was positive. For a time, German musical life divided into two factions, supporters of Wagner and supporters of Johannes Brahms; the latter, with the support of the powerful critic Eduard Hanslick (of whom Beckmesser in "Meistersinger" is in part a caricature) championed traditional forms and led the conservative front against Wagnerian innovations. They were supported by the conservative leanings of some German music schools, including the conservatories at Leipzig under Ignaz Moscheles and at Cologne

title: Richard Wagner

text: cycle, which he had yet to compose. Aspects of Schopenhauerian doctrine found their way into Wagner's subsequent libretti. A second source of inspiration was Wagner's infatuation with the poet-writer Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of the silk merchant Otto Wesendonck. Wagner met the Wesendoncks, who were both great admirers of his music, in Zürich in 1852. From May 1853 onwards Wesendonck made several loans to Wagner to finance his household expenses in Zürich, and in 1857 placed a cottage on his estate at Wagner's disposal, which became known as the "Asyl" ("asylum" or "place of rest"). During this period, Wagner's growing

title: Richard Wagner

text: "A pilgrimage to Beethoven", which sketched his growing concept of "music drama", and "An end in Paris", where he depicts his own miseries as a German musician in the French metropolis. He also provided arrangements of operas by other composers, largely on behalf of the Schlesinger publishing house. During this stay he completed his third and fourth operas "Rienzi" and "Der fliegende Holländer". Wagner had completed "Rienzi" in 1840. With the strong support of Giacomo Meyerbeer, it was accepted for performance by the Dresden Court Theatre ("Hofoper") in the Kingdom of Saxony and in 1842, Wagner moved to Dresden. His

title: Wagner-Mozart Music Hall

text: a student vestibule that led to the rehearsal rooms and instrument storage, and the other entrance led to a public vestibule that led to the auditorium/band room. The building was also made available for community meetings and other non-music functions. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It has subsequently been torn down. Wagner-Mozart Music Hall Wagner-Mozart Music Hall was a historic building located in Mason City, Iowa, United States. Built in 1936, this was one of, if not the first, building designed for a school music program. The concrete and brick Moderne structure was

title: Look at What the Light Did Now

text: Kinks and Peggy Lee, and two studio recordings of a new song, "Look at What the Light Did Now", written by Little Wings. Prior to its December 2010 home video release, the documentary screened at number of international fall festivals, including the 2010 Raindance Film Festival in London, CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, and the Pop Montreal music festival in Quebec. "Look at What the Light Did Now" marks both Feist's first official documentary and first official live album. "Look at What the Light Did Now" received limited reviews upon release that were mostly positive. Music site Drowned in Sound gave the

title: Mein Leben (Wagner)

text: edition did not appear until 1911, possibly to quell the rumours which had grown about the contents; this was cut and adapted by the Wagner family to cover up indiscreet comments or actions by Wagner which appeared discreditable. The first complete public edition appeared in 1963 (in German). The edition translated by Andrew Gray is based on this and is the first complete English translation. Mein Leben (Wagner) Mein Leben (German, "My Life") is the title given by the composer Richard Wagner to his autobiography, covering the years from his birth in 1813 to 1864. Wagner began dictating "Mein Leben"

title: Richard III (play)

text: action on Richard's part not only keeps him in control of the dramatic action of the play, but also of how the audience sees him: in a somewhat positive light, or as the protagonist. Richard actually embodies the dramatic character of "Vice" from medieval morality plays—with which Shakespeare was very familiar from his time—with his "impish-to-fiendish humour". Like Vice, Richard is able to render what is ugly and evil—his thoughts and aims, his view of other characters—into what is charming and amusing for the audience. In the earlier acts of the play, too, the role of the antagonist is filled

title: What I Did Last Summer

text: Retro Productions in New York City at the Spoon Theater. This production was attended and praised by A.R. Gurney and his extended family, and directed by Ric Sechrest. A professional revival was staged in Houston, Texas in 2003, directed by Kelley Williams. The Cast was as follows (2003): Charlie: (In alternating performances): Giddony Sanchez/ Shawn Anthony Anderson; Anna Trumbull: Sarah Douchez; Elsie: Jade Prudent; Grace: Elizabeth Keel; Bonny: Genieva Croley; Ted: John Ruiz. What I Did Last Summer What I Did Last Summer is a play by the American playwright A.R. Gurney. The setting is a well-to-do vacation colony on

title: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

text: to Say Goodbye". A music video for "How Do I Deal" was made available to music television networks. On August 15, 2006, a straight-to-DVD sequel titled "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer" was released. The film is unrelated to the two previous films, and features no returning cast members. It was originally proposed to continue where "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" left off. Instead, the film features an unrelated plot with a brief mention of the first two films. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

title: What I Did Last Summer

text: What I Did Last Summer What I Did Last Summer is a play by the American playwright A.R. Gurney. The setting is a well-to-do vacation colony on the shores of Lake Erie, the time 1945, during the final stages of World War II. Charlie, an incipiently rebellious fourteen-year-old, is summering with his mother and sister (his father is fighting in the Pacific) before going off to an expensive boarding school in the fall. Although he intended to spend the summer loafing and socializing with his friends (such as Ted), the need for spending money forces him to take a job

title: What the Hell Did I Say

text: part of the album's pre-release video series. The official music video was released on July 9, 2017. Also directed by Edwards, the video is composed of footage from Bentley's 2017 tour. What the Hell Did I Say "What the Hell Did I Say" is a song co-written and recorded by country music artist Dierks Bentley. It was released in June 2017 as the fourth single from his 2016 album "Black". This is the second collaboration by Bentley, Kear and Tompkins, following the highly successful No. 1 single "Drunk on a Plane". However, unlike "Drunk", this song underperformed and became the

title: What Did I Do to You?

text: by the Grammy Award-winning American house music DJ and producer, David Morales. The Philip Richardson-directed music video was also released. The single became a top forty hit in the European countries reaching number seven in Italy, number eighteen in Finland, number twenty in Ireland and number twenty-five in the United Kingdom. "What Did I Do to You?" was also released in Japan. In 2014, the remixes of "What Did I Do to You?" were included on the deluxe 2CD + DVD re-release of "Affection" and on "People Hold On ... The Remix Anthology". They were also featured on "The Collection

title: Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)

text: Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation) Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released on April 10, 2012, on Cooking Vinyl. The album is composed of cover songs, with vocalist Adam Duritz stating, "Sometimes it's great to play someone else's music and try to make it your own. Sometimes it's great just because it's fun." Produced by both the band and Shawn Dealy, the album features tracks from the 1960s through to the 2010s, and includes songs written by band's early contemporaries,