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Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( VAHG-nər; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). 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 ("total work of art"), 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 (The Ring of the Nibelung).
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner 22 May 1813 Leipzig, Germany
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13 February 1883 (aged 69) Venice, Italy
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Siegfried Helferich Richard Wagner 3rd child with Cosima Wagner Male b. 1869 d. 4 Aug 1930 Age: 61 (at death) 1869-1930 German composer and conductor
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