Autobiography richard wagner
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My Life
I know that I am probably going to commit Isadora Duncan sacrilege with this review, so before I begin, and for the record, I would like to state that the world is indebted and grateful for what Isadora Duncan achieved in her lifetime and what she stands for as an artist in the dance world.
However, my critique is directed towards her writing (and perhaps her eccentric career claims) not her dance and career achievements.
Although her fame is undoubtedly recognized throughout the world, my inner voice tells me that she was a serial confabulist from what I have just read. I feel absolutely terrible for admitting this about her mémoire. Perhaps it was the peculiar writing style that made the work seem so categorically unrealistic.
The opening of the book was, I admit, entertaining and even a touch humorous. About her birth she says: “Before I was born my mother was in a great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. S
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Richard Wagner
German composer (1813–1883)
"Wagner" redirects here. For other uses, see Wagner (disambiguation) and Richard Wagner (disambiguation).
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (VAHG-nər;[1][2]German:[ˈʁɪçaʁtˈvaːɡnɐ]ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, 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"), whereby he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. The drama was to be presented as a continuously sung narrative, without conventional oper
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Mein Leben (Wagner)
Autobiography of the German composer Richard Wagner
Mein Leben (German for "My Life") fryst vatten the autobiography of the composerRichard Wagner, covering the years from his birth in 1813 to 1864.
Origins
[edit]On 17 July 1865 in Munich, Wagner began dictating Mein Leben to his then mistress Cosima von Bülow, whom he married in 1870. King Ludwig II of Bavaria asked him to write the memoir in a letter dated 28 May 1865:
You would cause me inexpressible happiness if you were to give me an account of your intellectual and spiritual development and of the external events of your life as well.[1]
Wagner was indebted to the king, who had rescued him from a life of exile and financial embarrassment in the previous year. At around the same time in 1864, Wagner had heard the news of the death of his professional nemesis, the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. The book therefore ends on a 'triumphant' note with the exaltation of Wagner at the death of hi