This is the first of several in-depth studies of Wagner and his music by the renowned music critic Ernest Newman (1868–1959), leading up to the great four-volume biography The Life of Richard Wagner, ...

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 victims of ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and ... tunes sung in Italian by warbling sopranos). Wagner wanted his music dramas to be total art works which combined the worlds of theatre ...

Israel's public broadcaster has apologised to listeners after music by Richard Wagner was played on the radio. The 19th-Century German composer remains controversial in the country because of his ...

Liszt was one of the greatest of his time, and wrote demanding piano music to show off his own brilliance ... and combined these with a direct approach to composing. Germany’s Richard Wagner also ...

A prominent practitioner of the historically grand productions that were once fashionable at the Met, he was especially well ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and ... tunes sung in Italian by warbling sopranos). Wagner wanted his music dramas to be total art works which combined the worlds of theatre ...