{"id":102,"date":"2009-08-09T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-03-09T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T22:34:22","slug":"richard-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/richard-wagner\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Wagner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Wagner war ein deutscher Komponist<\/strong>. He believed in Gesamtkunstwerk<\/strong>, which was the synthesis of art, music and drama. Richard Wagner wurde am 22. Mai 1813 in Leipzig<\/strong>. Sechs Monate nach seiner Geburt, am 23. November 1813, starb der Vater an Typhus<\/strong>. Wagner’s stepfather introduced Wagner to musical theater. He was inspired by artists such as Beethovan.<\/p>\n

Am 24. November heiratete er Minna Planer, die dort als Schauspielerin engagiert war<\/strong>. Minna ran off with an army officer and came back to Wagner when the officer abandoned her. This would continue to be a volitile marriage for\u00a0the next\u00a0three decades. In the 1840s, the couple went to Paris to get away from their debtors. Nachdem es ihm in Paris nicht gelungen war, k\u00fcnstlerische Pl\u00e4ne voranzubringen und dort Erfolg zu haben, verlie\u00df er im April 1842 Paris und siedelte sich in Dresden an<\/strong>. In 1842 Wagner’s opera Rienzi received critical acclaim in Dresden. He had finally made it!<\/p>\n

During this time, he became involved in politics and had to live in exile in Zurich. 1858 spitzte sich Wagners Aff\u00e4re mit Mathilde Wesendonck zu<\/strong>. His affair inspired the work Tristan and Isolde. Here is a sample of this song:<\/p>\n