What is Richard Wagner's middle name?
Richard
What is Richard Wagner's full name?
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner nickname(s):
Wilhelm Richard Geyer
Richard Wagner date of birth:
May 22, 1813
How old was Richard Wagner when died?
69
Where was Richard Wagner born?
Leipzig, Germany
When did Richard Wagner die?
February 13, 1883
Where did Richard Wagner die?
Venice, Italy
Why did Richard Wagner die?
Heart Failure
How tall is Richard Wagner?
5' 5½" (166 cm)
Richard Wagner body shape:
Average
Is Richard Wagner gay or straight?
Straight
What is Richard Wagner's ethnicity?
White
What is Richard Wagner nationality?
German
What is Richard Wagner's occupation?
Composer
Richard Wagner claim to fame:
Here comes the Bride" & "Ride of the Valkyries
Who is Richard Wagner's father?
Carl Friedrich Wagner (father), Ludwig Geyer (step father) (playwright) (actor)
Who is Richard Wagner's mother?
Johanna Rosine Paetz Wagner-Geyer
Richard Wagner family:
Cosima Liszt (2nd wife), Franz Liszt (father-in-law) (composer)
Who has Richard Wagner worked with?
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
Short Biography
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later 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 Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and which was announced in a series of essays between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).