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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. 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 Gesamtkunstwerk, by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. The drama was to be presented as a continuously sung narrative, without conventional operatic structures like arias and recitatives. 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 16-hour, four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Wagner's 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. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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Ride of the Valkyries
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Ride Of The Valkyries (as heard in Apocalypse Now!)
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Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Siegfried's Funeral March
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Ride Of The Valkyries

Albums

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Richard Wagner, An Organic Journey - Eight Historical Organ Transcriptions

Album2024
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Wagner: Act 1 & Wotan's Farewell from Die Walküre (feat. Hans Sotin, Helga Dernesch, Norman Bailey & William Cochran)

Album2023
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Klemperer Conducts Wagner: Overtures & Preludes

Album2023
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Karajan A-Z: Wagner - Wolf-Ferrari

Album2024
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Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 0-9 – Wagner: Orchestral Music

Album2023
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Conductor's Gallery, Vol. 17: Hans Knappertsbusch

Album2023
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Spring Soiree: Classical Piano

Album2023
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Bruckner: Symphony in D Minor "No. 0, Die Nullte" – Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer Overture; Rienzi Overture

Album2023
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Wagner: Overtures and Preludes; Ring Selections

Album2023
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Wagner: Opera Excerpts & Overtures

Album2023

Singles

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

2024
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Tristan und Isolde, Act 3: Isolde kommt! Isolde naht! (Live)

2022
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Siegfried, Act 3, Scene 3: IV. Dort she' ich den Schild

2022
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Wagner: Parsifal / Act III: Prelude (Live)

2024
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Parsifal, Act 3: Nur eine Waffe taugt (Live)

2022
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Mild und leise wie er lächelt "Isoldes Liebestod"

2022
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Ride of the Valkyries (Studio Recording) (feat. Leopold Stokowski & Symphony of the Air)

2023
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Siegfried, Act 3, Scene 3: VI. Dich lieb' ich

2022
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Albumblatt, WWV 94 (Arr. for Violin and Piano by August Wilhelmj)

2023
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Siegfried, Act 3, Scene 3: V. Ewig war ich, ewig bin ich

2022

Videos

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Cabalgata de las Walkirias. R. Wagner. Dir.: Miguel Roa

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Richard Wagner: Prelude to «Lohengrin», Simon Rattle

Иван Шариков2.3M views
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Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Overture by Sinopoli, SKD (1998)

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Vagner Zigfridov posmrtni marš -Wagner Siegfried Funeral March

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Wagner Tannhauser Overture Karajan

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Richard Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries

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Dance of the Knights Prokofiev

Quarteto Amatti3.1M views
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Wagner - Liebestod - Waltraud Meier

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here comes the bride wedding song

Cordero Richard8.2M views
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Wagner - Das Rheingold - Vorspiel

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Essential Opera

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Conducted

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Classical Gems

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Essential Classical

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Classical Workout

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Opera for the Ages

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