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'''Richard Wagner''' was a [[Germany|German]] composer with strong anti-semitic views. His musical influence is still present even in Rock music, with performers like [[Meat Loaf]] and [[Bonnie Tyler]] performing Wagnerian Rock music.
'''Richard Wagner''' (1813 - 1883) was a [[Germany|German]] [[opera]] composer whose strong popularity continued beyond his death. In [[Nazi Germany]] his works were very popular, oftentimes playing up his [[anti-semitic]] views. Wagner was involved in the 1848 [[Dresden Revolution]] and was forced to flee his native Germany for [[Switzerland]]. Many of his operas are still performed today.
==Famous Works==
* Rienzi (1840)
* Der Fliegende Hollander (1841)
* Tannhauser (1844)
* Lohengrin (1848)
* Der Rings des Nibelungen (1853-1854)
* Das Rheingold (1853-1854)
* Siegfried (1856-1859)
* Tristan und Isolde (1859)
* Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (1868)
* Die Gotterdammerung (1874)
* Parisfal (1882) (Last Opera)
== Sources ==
The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989
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