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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, whereby 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
Wagner
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Ride Of The Valkyries (as heard in Apocalypse Now!)
Wagner
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Aida: Triumphmarsch
Symphonisches Orchester Berlin, Carl-August Bünte & Giuseppe Verdi
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Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Siegfried's Funeral March
The Cleveland Orchestra
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Parsifal, Overture
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Albums

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Richard Wagner, An Organic Journey - Eight Historical Organ Transcriptions

Album • 2024
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Wagner: Act 1 & Wotan's Farewell from Die Walküre (feat. Hans Sotin, Helga Dernesch, Norman Bailey & William Cochran)

Album • 2023
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Klemperer Conducts Wagner: Overtures & Preludes

Album • 2023
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Karajan A-Z: Wagner - Wolf-Ferrari

Album • 2024
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Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 0-9 – Wagner: Orchestral Music

Album • 2023
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Conductor's Gallery, Vol. 17: Hans Knappertsbusch

Album • 2023
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Spring Soiree: Classical Piano

Album • 2023
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Bruckner: Symphony in D Minor "No. 0, Die Nullte" – Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer Overture; Rienzi Overture

Album • 2023
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Wagner: Overtures and Preludes; Ring Selections

Album • 2023
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Wagner: Opera Excerpts & Overtures

Album • 2023

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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Eberhard Wächter "Schwüles Gedünst" Das Rheingold

Richard Wagner • 18K views
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Birgit Nilsson "Mild und leise" Tristan und Isolde

Richard Wagner • 3.4K views
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George London "Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge" Das Rheingold

Richard Wagner • 45K views
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Julia Varady "Senta`s Ballad" Der fliegende Holländer

Richard Wagner • 12K views
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Richard Wagner "Symphony in C Major" 3. Movement

Richard Wagner • 14K views
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DIMITRI MITROPOULOS "Funeral-March" Götterdämmerung

Richard Wagner • 14K views
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Richard Wagner "Symphony in C Major" 4. Movement

Richard Wagner • 15K views
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Arturo Toscanini "Overture" Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Richard Wagner • 1.3K views

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Essential Opera

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Essential Classical

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Classical Workout

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Opera for the Ages

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Conducted

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