Hunter Hayes - Better Than This (Encore)

WAGNER Wilhelm Richard (22 V 1813, Leipzig - 13 II 1883, Venice; buried 18 II 1883, Bayreuth) - German composer, conductor, librettist, publicist, music writer. V. - the largest romantic artist of the 19th century. His work was formed in the years preceding the bourgeois-democratic. Revolution of 1848-49 in Germany. The first completed opera - “Fairies” (Op. 1833–34, after the dramatic tale “The Woman-Snake” by Gozzi) is close to German opera traditions (K. M. Weber, G. Marshner), was not staged during the life of V. In the next opera - “The Prohibition of Love, or the Acolyte from Palermo” (according to the comedy “Measure for Measure” by Shakespeare, post. 1836, Magdeburg), the influence of Italian, partly French. comedian. operas. The third opera - “Rienzi” (“Cola Rienzi, the Last Stand”, based on the novel by E. Bulver-Lytton, post. 1842, Dresden) - reflected the impact of historical and heroic. performance in the spirit of G.Spontini and J. Meyerbeer. This is a production. completes the initial creative. V. period, filled with intense but unsteady arts. searches and life wanderings. V. worked as a conductor in provincial Germans. theaters, lived in Paris, where he tried unsuccessfully to gain recognition.