Wagner Siegfried is a German composer and conductor. He wrote operas and instrumental works. Siegfried Wagner was a descendant of two great composers.
Siegfried Wagner was born in 1869.He was the third child in the family. His father is the great composer Richard Wagner. Siegfried was not going to choose music with his life's work and planned to become an architect. But he soon changed his mind. The mother of Z. Wagner was the daughter of the great composer Franz Liszt. Siegfried's teachers were: Felix Motl, Engelbert Humperdinck and Heinrich Stein. His debut as a conductor took place in 1893.
Wagner Siegfried was not only a gifted composer, he still had the talent of a director and administrator. Mother gave him the leadership of the Bayreuth festival, with which he brilliantly coped.
The descendant of two great composers in 1930 died of a heart attack. Leadership of the festival took over his sons - Wieland and Wolfgang.
Wagner Siegfried wrote seventeen operas.Each of them has a fantastic story. Like his father, Siegfried wrote the libretto for his operas himself. He is also the author of several instrumental works. Z. Wagner is widely known only in Germany. Beyond its limits, his work has been little studied and many are unfamiliar.
Siegfried Wagner's works:
Wagner Siegfried, as already mentioned above, wasson of a great German composer. The full name of his father is Wilhelm Richard. R. Wagner was born in Leipzig in 1813. His music has had a tremendous impact on the culture of not only Germany, but the whole of Europe as a whole. He was a reformer of the opera. I tried to bring this kind of theatrical art closer to life. He also had his own view of orchestration. In his works the orchestra sounded like an antique choir. Richard Wagner was an innovator in the field of harmony. His music is saturated with chromatic, dynamic and often tense. He introduced leitmotifs into opera performances (short musical characteristics of characters and living beings). In his melodies there are no tonic supports, they sound incomplete, due to which there is an increase in emotions, and listeners are constantly in suspense. R. Wagner left behind a huge literary heritage. Of particular interest are his critical articles on music and work on the history and theory of art.
The most famous works of Richard Wagner:
Twenty-six years he worked on his tetralogy"Ring of the Nibelung" Richard Wagner. "Siegfried" is an opera that enters this cycle. There are four in total. In addition to "Siegfried", the tetralogy includes operas: "Valkyrie", "Gold of the Rhine" and "Death of the Gods". All together they last 15 hours. "The death of the gods" is the longest of them. It lasts more than five hours. The shortest one is "The Gold of the Rhine". Its duration is two and a half hours.
Not only music he wrote to his operas RichardWagner. "Siegfried" is a libretto of a work written by the composer himself, as well as all other operas. The plot of the tetralogy "Ring of the Nibelung" Icelandic sagas, German myths and medieval poems.
The fairy tale created by R.Wagner, narrates about the evil gnome of Alberich. He takes great wealth - the gold of the Rhine. A hero named Votan abducts a gold ring from Alberich. It's not simple. The one who owns this ring becomes the lord of the world and of untold treasures. The dwarf is enraged with theft and curses the one who took possession of his property. Wotan does not know that the ring stolen by him is so powerful. He gives it to Fazolt and Fafner because they built Valhalla. The curse of the gnome begins to work. Fafner and Fazolt quarrel over the ring. As a result of the conflict, one kills another. Fafner, who killed a friend, turns into a dragon. Remove the curse and return the gold owner can only a brave hero. And it appears. This is Siegfried. But they kill him, and he can not remove the curse. Valhalla burns, and the gods who committed all the crimes are dying.
The work that created the happiestthe period of his life Richard Wagner - "Siegfried Idyll". Years of exile and poverty are left behind. A secure and peaceful life began. Work on tetralogy was completed. In addition, his beloved wife gave him a long-awaited son, whom R. Wagner named after his favorite hero from The Ring of Nibelung. "Siegfried idyll" he wrote as a gift to his wife. The work is intended for execution by two clarinets, trumpets, a flute, a bassoon, strings, oboe and two horns. Music radiates peace, light, purity.
