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German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works. |
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Works about Richard Wagner [edit]
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche contra Wagner: Documents of a Psychologist (trans. by Anthony M. Ludovici)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner in Bayreuth from Untimely Meditations (trans. by Anthony M. Ludovici)
- Sidney Lanier, “VI. To Richard Wagner,” from Street Cries
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Death of Richard Wagner,” from A Century of Roundels
- “Wagner, Wilhelm Richard” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
- “Wagner, Wilhelm Richard,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.