2013Composers - First Day Cover

Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig on 22 May in 1813. the ninth child of the police officer, who died of typhus six months after the birth of Richard. The famous German composer, conductor, essayist, reformer of opera, and great music theorist. Wagner's personality is of crucial importance for the history of music. As one of the biggest artists in the field of opera in his works he laid the foundation of classical music of 20th century, especially in "Tristan and Isolde". The emphasis is on the use of leitmotifs. In his essays on the theory set "overall art" theory according to which musical drama the most perfect form of artistic expression. In Zurich created his works: Die Kunst und die Revolution (1849), Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (1850), Oper und Drama (1851) and Eine Mitteilung an meine Freunste (in 1852).