Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure. He is credited with the 'birth of modern music'. Wagner had a pretty established musical ...

Derby City Chamber Music Festival plays Strauss, Wagner, and Schoenberg ...

"A sniveling gnome with exceptional talent" — or so the composer was once described. Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard ...

Richard Wagner’s mother, Johanna ... It was literature that was the initial attraction, though, not music. Wagner was only 11 when he wrote a drama, drawn from Shakespeare and the Greeks, in which 42 ...

those who have never knowingly heard Richard Wagner will recognise his music and be amazed at just how familiar some of the classic pieces are. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche summed up the Ring ...

Germany’s Richard Wagner also played a key role in developing the operatic genre.Before Wagner, the action and music in opera was split into short pieces or 'numbers' much like a modern-day musical ...

When it comes to Richard Wagner, one thing has long been clear: he wanted to be in control. The man who invented the idea of ...