Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; 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).
His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.
Richard Wagner (born April 10, 1952) is a Romanian-born German novelist. He has published a number of short stories, novels and essays.
A member of Romania's German minority, like his former wife, Herta Müller, he studied German and Romanian literature at Timișoara University. He then worked as a German language school teacher and as a journalist, and published poetry and short stories in German. He was also a member of Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary society.
In 1987, Wagner and Müller left Romania for West Berlin, to escape communist oppression and censorship in Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania. He still lives in Berlin.
Richard R. Wagner (born April 2, 1957) is a Canadian judge sitting in the Supreme Court of Canada as one of the eight Puisne Justices. He previously sat on the Quebec Court of Appeal. He is the son of former Progressive Conservative MP and Senator Claude Wagner.
Wagner was born in Montreal, the son of Gisèle (née Normandeau) and Claude Wagner. He studied at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Montreal before receiving his Bachelor of Social Sciences in Political Science from the University of Ottawa in 1978. He received his LL.L from the same institution in 1979.
Wagner was called to the Quebec Bar in 1980, and began practice at the Montreal law firm Lavery, de Billy (formerly Lavery, O'Brien and Lavery, Johnston, Clark, Carrière, Mason & Associés). His practice centred on real estate, commercial litigation and professional liability insurance.
He was appointed to the Quebec Superior Court for the District of Montreal on September 24, 2004. On February 3, 2011, he was elevated to the Court of Appeal of Quebec.
Schauet hoch zum Sonnenrad -
Skoll tut schon seine Pflicht -
Gesänge gehen durch das Land -
Heute ziehen wir in die Schlacht -
Nehmt die Schwerter und die schilde, sagt den Weibern Lebetwohl -
Steigt aufs Pferd, auf zum Sieg -
Lasst uns streiten Brüder, die Götter sind mit uns -
Die goldene Halle sie öffnet die Tore weit, der Tisch ist schon gedeckt -
Wir bauen dem Einäugigen einen Thron auf den Knochen unserer Feinde -
Wir schicken die feigen heim zur Hel -
Thor ist mit uns -
Und werd ich fallen in dieser Schlacht, tragt meinen Leichnam heim zu meiner Frau -
Sagt ihr: keine Tränen, denn ich bin Daheim -
Gebt meinem Sohn mein Schwert und Schild -
Das Erbe liegt in seiner hand, den er ist jung und Stolz
Und dürstet nach des Vaters Mörder Blut -
Begleitet ihn auf diesen und auf allen Wegen -
Doch zuvor meine Brüder,
Lasst uns schlagen diese Schlacht:
Schauet hoch zum Sonnenrad -
Skoll tut noch seine Pflicht -
Gesänge gehen durch das Land -