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Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)

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Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Richard Wagner Museum (Wahnfried)
Phone:
+49 921 757280

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, 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. 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 four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen . His 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. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music. Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. The Ring and Parsifal were premiered here and his most important stage works continue to be performed at the annual Bayreuth Festival, run by his descendants. His thoughts on the relative contributions of music and drama in opera were to change again, and he reintroduced some traditional forms into his last few stage works, including Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg . Until his final years, Wagner's life was characterised by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors. His controversial writings on music, drama and politics have attracted extensive comment, notably, since the late 20th century, where they express antisemitic sentiments. The effect of his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century; his influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theatre.
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