Magic Fire
Magic Fire is a 1955 American biographical film about the life of composer Richard Wagner, released by Republic Pictures.
Directed by William Dieterle, the film made extensive use of Wagner's music, which was arranged by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Dieterle worked with Korngold on several Warner Bros. films, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Juarez".
It was one of the final films Republic made in the two-strip color process known as Trucolor.
Although many details about Wagner's life were accurately portrayed, the film often distorted some facts, apparently for dramatic purposes.
One high point was the accurate depiction of the riot at the Paris Opera House for the premiere of the revised version of "Tannhäuser".
The film depicted King Ludwig II's patronage of Wagner, without going into much detail about the king's controversial personality.
The film used a very large cast, opulent sets, and lavish costumes.
Since Republic was known primarily for westerns and adventure serials, "Magic Fire" was one of the rare "prestige" films to be produced by studio chief Herbert Yates.
Nevertheless, critical response was mixed and box office receipts in the U.S. were disappointing.
Walter Ulfig
Walter Ulfig was a German composer of film scores.
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 mature 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 "Gesamtkunstwerktotal work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama.
He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852.
Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle "Der Ring des NibelungenThe Ring of the Nibelung").
His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas, or plot elements.
His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music.
His "Tristan und Isolde" is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.
Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features.
The "Ring" and "Parsifal" were premiered here and his most important stage works continue to be performed at the annual Bayreuth Festival, run by his descendants.
His thoughts on the relative contributions of music and drama in opera were to change again, and he reintroduced some traditional forms into his last few stage works, including "Die Meistersinger von NürnbergThe Mastersingers of Nuremberg").
Until his final years, Wagner's 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.
Bert Grund
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Abe Meyer
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Thomas Morse
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Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Henri Verdun
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Amedeo Escobar
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Tarcisio Fusco
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He was the brother of the composer Giovanni Fusco and the uncle of operatic soprano Cecilia Fusco.

Question: What nationality is the composer of film Magic Fire?
Answer: German