Richard Wagner

German opera composer · 1813–1883 · Germany, Bavaria
Richard Wagner was a German composer who pioneered the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) and founded the Bayreuth Festival.
The kit
- Achievements — Richard Wagner composed the four-opera Ring Cycle and introduced the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art.
- Patronage — Richard Wagner received patronage from King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who settled his debts and enabled the Bayreuth Festival Theater.
- Conflicts — Richard Wagner wrote the anti-Semitic tract Judaism in Music attacking Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer and was exiled after Dresden's May Uprising.
- Legacy — Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theater opened in 1872 and annually performs his Ring Cycle and other music dramas.
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Opera
Bavaria
Paris
The ladder · 9 clues
The founder of the Bayreuth [bye-ROYT] opera house, where his Ring Cycle is annually performed?
In Judaism in Music, this man criticized the influence of Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn.
This man never premiered his works in Paris again after the Jockey Club used a performance of his Tannhauser [TAHN-hoyz-er] to stage a demonstration against Napoleon III.
This composer orchestrated an arrangement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony for the 1872 opening of the Bayreuth Festival Theater, where this man premiered his Ring cycle four years later.
The patronage of King Ludwig II allowed this composer of Tannhäuser to construct a theater for his "music dramas" at Bayreuth. Name this German opera composer of the Ring Cycle.
This man's music was criticized as pandering to extremists in the Untimely Meditations of Friedrich Nietzsche, which includes an essay about this man in Bayreuth [BYE-roit].
This composer, who wrote the controversial essay “Jewishness in Music,” wrote an opera with excerpted numbers such as “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral” and the “Bridal Chorus.” The Bayreuth Festival honors the operas of this composer of the Ring Cycle.
This man's debt was settled by Ludwig II of Bavaria, under whose patronage he premiered Tristan und Isolde. name this notedly anti-Semitic composer of the Ring Cycle.
This composer of “Ride of the Valkyries” depicted the burning of Valhalla in the last of a cycle of four operas.
10 more clues from the record
While exiled to Switzerland for his role in Dresden’s May Uprising, he wrote the essay Artwork of the Future, laying out his idea of the “total work of art,” or Gesamtkunstwerk.
In “Art and Revolution,” this man introduced the idea of the “total work of art.” One of his operas ends with the “Liebstod” and opens with a namesake harmonically-ambigous chord.
A theory surrounding this man’s death include a heart attack caused by an argument with his wife over his affair with the singer Carrie Pringle.
This man attacked Felix Mendelssohn in the anti-Semitic tract On Jewishness in Music. He used the term “music dramas” to describe his operas.
This man’s third opera is based on the life of a medieval Italian populist leader who was known as the “last of the tribunes”.
This composer wrote about synthesizing opera and drama, which he called Gesamtkunstwerk [guh- ZAHMT-koonst-verk].
One of this composer’s operas begins with 136 measures of a four-minute long E-flat major drone.
This composer was a close friend of Friedrich Nietzsche before the philosopher repudiated this man’s late works.
This man inserted a bacchanale into the “Paris version” of an opera inspired by the Wartburg Song Contest.
This composer was exiled prior to the premier of one of his operas after he took part in the May Uprising.






















