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Birth of Richard Wagner in Leipzig
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Richard Wagner
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Wagner was enrolled at Pastor Wetzel's school at Possendorf.
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Geyer died.
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The family had moved back to Leipzig.
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He first heard Beethoven's 7th Symphony.
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Wagner's first lessons in harmony.
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He saw the dramatic soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient on stage.
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Saw the dramatic soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient on stage
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He enrolled at the University of Leipzig.
Where he became a member of the Studentenverbindung Corps Saxonia Leipzig. -
Wagner's older brother Karl Albert managed to obtain Richard a position as choir master in Würzburg.
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After Das Liebesverbot disaster, the couple moved to Königsberg
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Minna Planer and Richard Wagner were married
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Wagner moved to the city of Riga
Became musical director of the local opera -
Minna Wagner abandoned by another man
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Minna returns
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Where Richard made a scant living writing articles.
Arranging operas by other composers, largely on behalf of the Schlesinger publishing house. -
Wagner moved to Dresden
Where Rienzi was staged to considerable acclaim -
He staged there The Flying Dutchman
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He staged there Tannhäuser.
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After completing Lohengrin, the last of his operas of the middle period
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Widespread discontent in Dresden came to a head.
When King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony rejected a new constitution. The May Uprising broke out, in which Wagner played a minor supporting role. The incipient revolution was quickly crushed by an allied force of Saxon and Prussian troops, and warrants were issued for the arrest of the revolutionaries. Wagner had to flee, first visiting Paris and then settling in Zurich.
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Wagner spent the next twelve years in exile
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His first publishing
Was published during his first years in Zurich and was formed by a number of prominent trials. -
Minna gradually fell into a deep depression
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Wagner met Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of a silk merchant Otto Wesendonck in Zürich
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The composer was falling in love with the wife of his employer
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Third Opera
Then he began to work on the third opera, Siegfried call, but only finished the first two events before deciding to leave the work aside to concentrate on a new idea: Tristan e Isolda -
The difficult romance ended
When Minna intercepted a letter from Wagner to Mathilde -
After the resulting confrontation
Wagner leaves Zurich alone, bound for Venice. -
policy that lifted the ban on Wagner was in Germany
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Wagner's Tristan and Isolde attempted to produce in Vienna
Despite numerous trials, the opera was not represented and earned a reputation as "impossible", which increased the financial problems of the composer. -
The couple separated permanently
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Wagner took an unexpected turn
When King Ludwig II ascended the throne at the age of 18 years -
Premiere of Wagner's first in 15 years
In the National Theater Munich -
Forced the King
To ask the composer to leave the city -
Mathilde Wesendonck died
Wagner said he was not able to travel to his funeral due to "swollen finger" -
Finished his opera "Los maestros cantores de Núremberg"
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"Los maestros cantores de Núremberg" premiered in Munich
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Cosima von Hans convinced Bull to provide him with divorce
but did not materialize until after she had two more children and were married Wagner -
Wagner returned to the composition of Siegfried.
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''El ocaso de los dioses''
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''El oro del Rin'' and ''La valquiria''
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The marriage to Cosima lasted to the end of his life
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Richard and Cosima were married.
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ending Act III of Siegfried
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Release of the full cycle
Once the construction of the Festspielhaus. -
Wagner began working on his last opera ''Parsifal''
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second Festival for the premiere of the new opera
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Wagner died
Because of a heart attack
