Romantic · 1813–1883
Richard Wagner
瓦格纳
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.
Recordings
47 in the library · 5 hr 40 min · best first
- die meistersinger von nurnberg – overture11:36
(See Musopen for author information) · 11:36
- Siegfried Fantasie21:12
military band pastiche · 21:12
- Overture to Tannhauser14:27
U.S. Marine Band · 14:27
- Arthur Siedel, Grand Fantasie15:00
pastiche from Die Walküre · 15:00
- Parsifal Act I – Prelude15:57
Karl Muck, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra · 15:57
- Treulich geführt1:45
Musopen · 1:45
- Schumann-Heink – Träume (Wesendonck Lieder n°5) (1911)4:12
YouYube · 4:12
- die walkure fantasie27:57
· 27:57
- Das Liebesmahl der Apostel10:47
abridged · 10:47
- Haus des Glockenspiels 18:26
Jürgen Howaldt · 8:26
- Parsifal Act I7:16
Transformation Music · 7:16
- Parsifal Act III- Prelude6:38
Public Domain · 6:38
- Parsifal Act II- Flower Maiden Scene4:53
Karl Muck · 4:53
- LKMK W Wagner44:09
Paterm · 44:09
- 14:13
- Schumann-Heink – Götterdämmerung – Höre mit Sinn was ich dir sage4:56
Waltraute acte 1 scène 3 - 1929 · 4:56
- O Star of Eve4:13
Tannhauser · 4:13
- Schumann-Heink – Rienzi – Gerechter Gott4:12
Adriano acte 3 - 1908 · 4:12
- Gramophone 050528 1374c4:01
Carl Flisch · 4:01
- Schumann-Heink – Das Rheingold – Weiche, Wotan, weiche4:00
Erda scène4 - 1907 · 4:00
- Loengrīna atvadīšanās3:59
National Library of Latvia · 3:59
- In fernem Land3:45
Hermann Jadlowker · 3:45
- 3:43
- Columbia l1771 ax15403:35
Carl Flisch · 3:35
- Anker 265 036003:21
Carl Flisch · 3:21
- Anker 265 036033:03
Carl Flisch · 3:03
- 10:30
- Wedding March Richard Wagner Piano Edition Player Piano-Boy Jason M. C., Han2:20
Jason M. C., Han · 2:20
- 4:49
- PDP-CH – Symphony Orchestra – Albert Coates – Tannhäuser – Prelude – Act 3 – Hmv-d1072-4-07484:36
· 4:36
- 4:30
- 3:49
- Ride of the Valkyries4:18
· 4:18
- Fort denn eile2:21
Die Walkure · 2:21
- 4:03
- 3:11
- Kammerchor-Nikolassee – 15 – Die selige Morgentraum-Deutweise2:50
Vincent Andreas · 2:50
- Richard Wagner Parsifal Titurel, der fromme Held excerpt3:16
Hessischer Rundfunk · 3:16
- 3:43
- 3:43