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Designed an opera house, still in use today, in Bayreuth, Germany specifically for staging his operas. The orchestra pit is covered; as a result, the singers are not overpowered by the orchestra, usually of symphonic proportions in Wagners operas.
Wrote his own opera librettos along with the music.
Created a style of music which bears his name.
Great grandfather of Gottfried Wagner.
Favorite composer of Adolf Hitler , who claimed to have seen Wagners opera "Reinzi" at least 40 times.
His wife Cosima was the daughter of famous composer Franz Liszt and the ex-wife of composer Hans von Blow. Cosima and Richard had three children: Isolde, born 1865; Eva, born 1867; and Siegfried, born 1869. All three were born before their parents wed.
His official father, Karl Friedrich Wagner, died when he was six months old. His mother, Johanna, hastily remarried to Ludwig Geyer, a talented painter, playwright, and actor. Raised as Geyers favorite child and known as Richard Geyer for the first 14 years of his life, he came to suspect later that Geyer had been his biological father.
Wagner once planned to produce an opera titled Die Sieger (The Victors) based on the passions of a Buddhist.
Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space,Joy is not in things it is in us.
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge. .
