Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( VAHG-nər; German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] (listen); 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Wagner has received more than 7,531,226 page views. His biography is available in 151 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 148 in 2019). Richard Wagner is the 9th most popular composer (down from 8th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Germany (down from 12th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Composer.

Richard Wagner is most famous for his operas, which are considered to be some of the most influential in the history of music.