For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption ...

"A sniveling gnome with exceptional talent" — or so the composer was once described. Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner managed to create a mythic idea of himself that has obscured ...

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 ...

A modest and affable old-school gent, Sawallisch prided himself on these qualities and on the longevity of his devotion to one company especially: he was music director of the Bavarian State Opera for ...

Pulse. The beat of the heart, a sense of vitality and continuity, often serving as a metaphor for the way music flows in time. When four musicians gathered to explore what might emerge from their ...