Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Portrait of Richard
Wagner. 1882. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
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Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) German composer
of the Romantic trend, born in Leipzig. Author of large and pessimistic
musical works, i. e. Tannhäuser (1845), Lohengrin (1848),
Siegfried
(1857), Tristan und Isolde (1859), Die Meistersinger (1870)
and others. He was a prolific writer of letters and prose, issued some
essays on music. His ultranationalistic and anti-Semitic views made his
music very popular in Nazi Germany. He wrote an autobiography,
My Life.
