When1: 1843
When2: 1882
Who: Richard Wagner [Wagner, Richard]
What: composer
Where: Germany
works\ Flying Dutchman [1843: opera]; Tannhäuser [1845: opera, including Arrival of the Guests at Wartburg]; Lohengrin [1850: opera, including Wedding March or Bridal Chorus]; Tristan und Isolde [1865: tone poem]; Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg [1868: opera]; Der ring der Nibelungen or Ring of the Nibelung [1869 to 1874: operas]; Das Rheingold or Rhine Gold [1869: Ring first part]; Die Walkure or Valkyries [1870: Ring second part]; Siegfried [1876: Ring third part]; Die Götterdämmerung or Twilight of the Gods [1877: Ring fourth part includes Death of Siegfried]; Parsifal [1882: opera]
Detail: He lived 1813 to 1883. Operas had leitmotifs and chromaticism, with continuous melody, no melodic or poetic repetitions, and no separate arias or recitativas.
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