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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 this 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 these 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
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Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Siegfried's Funeral March
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Die Walküre - Magic Fire Music
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Ride Of The Valkyries (as heard in Apocalypse Now!)

Albums

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

2025
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Wagner: Overtures and Preludes (Vol. 2)

2025
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Richard Wagner, An Organic Journey - Eight Historical Organ Transcriptions

2024
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

2025
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Wagner: Overtures and Preludes (Vol. 1)

2025
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Wagner: Parsifal (Live)

2024
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Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act I

2025
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Jean Cox Sings Beethoven, Weber & Wagner

2025
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

2025
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Jean Cox singt Wagner

2025

Singles & EPs

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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]

Single2025
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Wagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Inbrunst im Herzen (Romerzählung)

Single2023
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Albumblatt, WWV 94 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by August Wilhelmj)

Single2023
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Wagner Rheingold Vorspiel Variation (From Rheingold, WWV 86a, Arr. for 2 Pianos by Jan-Peter Klöpfel)

Single2024
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Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act III :"In fernem Land, unnahbar euren Schritten. Gralserzählung"

Single2023
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 / Act II: Einsam wachend in der Nacht

Single2022
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Wagner: Parsifal / Act II: Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust (Live)

Single2024
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Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder

EP2023
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Wagner: Parsifal / Act III: Prelude (Live)

Single2024
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Ride of the Valkyries (Studio Recording) (feat. Leopold Stokowski & Symphony of the Air)

Single2023

Videos

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George London "Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge" Das Rheingold

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Richard Wagner "Symphony in C Major" 3. Movement

Richard Wagner15K views
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Maria Callas "Ich sah das Kind" Parsifal

Richard Wagner12K views
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Eberhard Wächter "Schwüles Gedünst" Das Rheingold

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Wilhelm Furtwängler "Prelude to Die Walküre" Wagner

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Richard Wagner "Symphony in C Major" 4. Movement

Richard Wagner15K views
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Birgit Nilsson "Mild und leise" Tristan und Isolde

Richard Wagner3.7K views
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DIMITRI MITROPOULOS "Funeral-March" Götterdämmerung

Richard Wagner15K views

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Essential Opera

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Conducted

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Classical Workout

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Essential Classical

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Opera for the Ages

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Lacrimosa

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