Introduction (NaN min. NaN sec.)(09 sec.) -- Lohengrin, Act III: Prelude (excerpt) (01 min. 32 sec.) / Wagner -- On laying the foundation stone of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 22 May 1872, Richard Wagner - who turned 59 years old that day - declared: 'I need a theatre such as I alone can build…' (07 min. 07 sec.) -- String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: V. Presto (excerpt) (NaN min. NaN sec.)(42 sec.) / Beethoven -- An extract from Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131 is a useful place to start to sketch Wagner's life history. (02 min. 19 sec.) -- Symphony in C Major: I. Sostenuto e maestoso - Allegro con brio (excerpt) (NaN min. NaN sec.)(51 sec.) / Wagner -- Given his family's theatrical pursuits, it is perhaps no surprise that Wagner turned his attention from the concert hall to the stage. (02 min. 37 sec.) -- Die Feen (The Fairies), Act I: Overture (excerpt) (01 min. 24 sec.) / Wagner -- Wagner's second completed opera Das Liebesverbot ('The Ban on Love'), a comic opera in two acts modelled on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, was written during the composer's brief tenure as… (04 min. 46 sec.) -- Rienzi, Act II: Chor der Friedensboten (Chorus of the Messengers of Peace) (excerpt) (01 min. 14 sec.) / Wagner -- Triumph, however, did not ensue. Rather, calamity, disillusionment and failure. (03 min. 46 sec.) -- Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Act I: Aria: Die Frist ist um (The time has come) (excerpt) (02 min. 03 sec.) / Wagner -- Success with Rienzi brought immediate benefits, not least the premiere on 2 January 1843 - also at the Dresden Hoftheater - of The Flying Dutchman… (03 min. 25 sec.) -- Lohengrin, Act I: Prelude (excerpt) (01 min. 28 sec.) / Wagner -- There was a reason that Wagner did not conduct, or even attend, the Weimar premiere of Lohengrin in the late summer of 1850. (02 min. 46 sec.) -- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Act III: Ride of the Valkyries (excerpt) (01 min. 11 sec.) / Wagner -- It would be some time before music such as this, Ride of the Valkyries from Wagner's Die Walküre, would be heard in the theatre. (04 min. 49 sec.) -- Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Scene 4: Weiche, Wotan, weiche! Flieh' des Ringes Fluch! (Yield, Wotan, yield! Escape from the ring's curse!) (excerpt) (01 min. 47 sec.) / Wagner -- Wagner's symphonic-style orchestral writing has been thought to betray the influence of a composer mentioned at the start of this biography: Beethoven. (04 min. 38 sec.) -- Tristan und Isolde, Act I: Prelude (excerpt) (02 min. 25 sec.) / Wagner -- A second major work by Wagner created during the lengthy hiatus in the composition of the Ring provided a stark contrast: this was Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg… (01 min. 18 sec.) -- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), Act III: Wacht auf, es nahet gen den Tag (Awake! The dawn of day is nearing) (excerpt) (02 min. 28 sec.) / Wagner -- Wagner had begun the music to Die Meistersinger in February 1862 while living temporarily in Mainz. (02 min. 19 sec.) -- Tannhäuser, Act I: Venusberg Music (Paris 1861 version) (excerpt) (NaN min. NaN sec.)(58 sec.) / Wagner -- A period of relative calm and contentment was to ensue, thanks entirely to the intervention of the eighteen-year-old Ludwig II, King of Bavaria. (05 min. 44 sec.) -- Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), Act III Scene 2: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch (Siegfried's Funeral March) (excerpt) (01 min. 14 sec.) / Wagner -- Following the premiere of the complete Ring cycle - comprising no less than sixteen hours of music extended over four evenings in mid-August 1876 - Wagner remained for the rest of his life… (03 min. 21 sec.) -- Parsifal, Act III: Höchsten Heiles Wunder! (Highest holy Wonder!) (excerpt) (02 min. 02 sec.) / Wagner
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"WAGNER, R.: Great Composers in Words and Music", -:Naxos Digital Services US Inc., 2024. Consultado en línea en la Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá (https://www.bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co/resources/4081277/), el día 2026-06-14.
