Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure. He is credited with the 'birth of modern music'. Wagner had a pretty established musical ...

Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption victims of ...

When it comes to Richard Wagner, one thing has long been clear: he wanted to be in control. The man who invented the idea of ...

Germany’s Richard Wagner also played a key role in developing the operatic genre.Before Wagner, the action and music in opera was split into short pieces or 'numbers' much like a modern-day musical ...

Christopher Eccleston goes head-to-head with the grim reaper's cavalry in Wagner's piece. Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure.