Richard Wagner's great grand-daughter Eva Wagner-Pasquier said she felt overwhelmed with emotion on Sunday at the official opening in Bayreuth of a renovated museum devoted to the 19th-century ...

But it wasn’t only his music that made Wagner the favorite composer of radicals and avant-gardists in the nineteenth century. It was the way he infused music with political and philosophical ideas.

He was a brilliant composer, a confirmed anti-Semite and an undeniably significant influence on the history of music. And today, he would have been 200 years old. That man, of course, was Richard ...

Wagner is, indeed, the only composer in history whose work amounts to an authentic ism; no one ever speaks of “Bachism” or “Mozartism,” but Wagnerism has emerged as a way of life more than ...

Richard Wagner Angeleno Opera enthusiasts have been anticipating the long-planned Ring Festival LA, which will span multiple venues between mid-April and late June of 2010 and boast numerous ...

Wagner is widely considered one of the key German composers in the history of music. Alongside his musical feats, his life was characterised by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and ...

Films and classroom resources on 19th Century German composer Richard Wagner, famous for his massive operas with epic stories.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Iris Wagner, great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, died in Berlin on Thursday after a lengthy illness, her family told the Nordbayerischer Kurier. She was 71.

The Associated PressMarch 22, 2010 MUNICH - Wolfgang Wagner, the grandson of composer Richard Wagner and the leader of the Bayreuth opera festival for more than half a century, has died. He was 90.

The composer’s Ride Of The Valkyries was famously used by Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now and he has been portrayed in multiple movie biopics including 1983 film Wagner starring Richard ...