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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most composers, Wagner wrote both the libretti and the music for all of his stage works. He first achieved recognition with works in the Romantic tradition of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but revolutionised the genre through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, which sought to unite poetic, musical, visual, and dramatic elements. In that approach, the drama unfolds as a continuously sung narrative, with the music evolving organically from the text rather than alternating between arias and recitatives. Wagner outlined those ideas in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852, most fully realising them in the first half of his four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Wagner's compositions, particularly in his later period, have complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas, or plot elements. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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Ride of the Valkyries
Wagner
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Aida: Triumphmarsch
Symphonisches Orchester Berlin, Carl-August Bünte
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Parsifal, Overture
Wagner
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Ride Of The Valkyries
Richard Wagner
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Ride of the Valkyries (by Wagner)
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Albums

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Leinsdorf conducts Wagner (Restored in 2026)

2026
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) (feat. Dunja Vejzović, Kaja Borris, Kurt Moll & Peter Hofmann)

2026
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Karajan Conducts Wagner, Vol. 1: Tannhäuser, Lohengrin & Tristan und Isolde

2025
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 - Weber: Overture from Oberon - Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde & Parsifal's Karfreitagsmusik (Live) (feat. Carl Maria von Weber, Ludwig van Beethoven & Richard Wagner)

2026
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Wagner: Lohengrin (feat. Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Siegmund Nimsgern, Dunja Vejzović & Karl Ridderbusch)

2026
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

2025
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Vulnerable & Strong - Songs

2026
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

2026
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Wagner. Strauss: Songs

2026
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Karajan Conducts Wagner, Vol. 2: The Mastersingers, The Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin & Parsifal

2026

Singles & EPs

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Resonance: Through the Wedding March (Echoes of Classics)

Single • 2025
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Wagner: Parsifal / Act III: Prelude (Live)

Single • 2024
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Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder

EP • 2023
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96, Act III, Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein (Walther's Prize Song) [Arr. for Cello and Piano by August Wilhelmj]

Single • 2025
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Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll, WWV 103 (Live)

EP • 2024
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Ride of the Valkyries (Studio Recording) (feat. Leopold Stokowski & Symphony of the Air)

Single • 2023
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Wagner Rheingold Vorspiel Variation (From Rheingold, WWV 86a, Arr. for 2 Pianos by Jan-Peter Klöpfel)

Single • 2024
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Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Inbrunst im Herzen (Romerzählung)

Single • 2023
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Wagner: Parsifal / Act II: Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust (Live)

Single • 2024
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Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act III :"In fernem Land, unnahbar euren Schritten. Gralserzählung"

Single • 2023

Videos

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Maria von Ilosvay "WEICHE, WOTAN, WEICHE" Das Rheingold

Richard Wagner • 5.6K views
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Hans Reinmar "Wie Todesahnung" Tannhäuser

Richard Wagner • 2.3K views
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Birgit Nilsson "Mild und leise" Tristan und Isolde

Richard Wagner • 4.2K views
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Richard Wagner "Symphony in C Major" 4. Movement

Richard Wagner • 16K views
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Eberhard Wächter "Schwüles Gedünst" Das Rheingold

Richard Wagner • 20K views
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Richard Wagner "Symphony in C Major" 3. Movement

Richard Wagner • 15K views
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Julia Varady "Senta`s Ballad" Der fliegende Holländer

Richard Wagner • 13K views

Featured on

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Essential Opera

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Conducted

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Classical Workout

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Essential Classical

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Opera for the Ages

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Lacrimosa

Playlist • YouTube Music

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