Impressed by this assumption victims of Hitler have also associated Wagner and his music with Nazism to such an extent that in Israel a ban on public performance of that music is upheld to this day.

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure. He is credited with the 'birth of modern music'. Wagner had a pretty established musical ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure. He is credited with the 'birth of modern music'. Wagner had a pretty established musical ...

I really enjoy Tristan and Isolde and, of course, Parsifal. I think both are magnificently composed with wonderful music." ...

When composer Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig early in the 19th century, conflict in Europe dominated the political and social landscape. It’s perhaps no surprise then that a musical genius ...

I think both are magnificently composed with wonderful music." Opera lovers will know Wagner's masterpieces well, but many will also be familiar with the composer's work from films such as ...

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It’s certainly not Luigi Nono or John Cage but it is the big music of Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss and Wagner. And I will try to study the repertoire with the orchestra as ...