For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption ...

Wagner's descendants subsequently tried to style the composer as superhuman, an idea that lives on today. The museum's current exhibition, "Mensch Wagner," or "Wagner, the Man," aims to go beyond ...

John Lechner’s book offers new reporting about the mercenary Wagner Group and its former leader, Yevgeniy Prigozhin ...

Richard Wagner’s mother, Johanna, was the daughter of a baker in Weissenfels (though some papers show that she may have been the illegitimate daughter of Prince Friedrich Ferdinand Constantin of ...

Despite having a huge influence on the latter decades of the 19th century, the German composer wasn’t too popular with many ...

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 ...

Wagner’s leitmotifs profoundly influenced the generations of composers that followed him – so much so that the word itself is now effectively shorthand for any signal or sign that represents ...

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