Wagner?
We find the compositions, operas, poems, books for defined him. He pass in music’s history as un controversial composer , takes of politics ambitious, associating the communism , racism with his character, a patriot with excess linked by his origins and psychologic theories.
The first is the Music !
A muse that nobility the art, leaving the human sentiment in musical key sensibility. The compositions continue to play … a time that enters in passed , leaving the free dream. Richard Wagner is birth to Lipsia in the 22 May 1813 , he is been a composer, poet, librettist , theatre’s director, director of orchestra an Allemande philosopher. He is know for theatre musical reform , different of others composers , writing himself the booklet and scenography for his works. The son of lawyer Carl Friedrich Wagner and dilettante actress Johanna Rosine Wagner he remains always ambiguous to make a carrier oscillating among the painter, reader, philosopher, architect and the end he a choose the music, being only a dream to horizon. Characterized of temperament more exuberant , enthusiast with the spirit of revolution , after a representation of Fidelio by Beethoven only 16 years he decided to become composer , starting in autodidact form with the little compositions more rudimentary( the first sonatas , quartet of arches , a theatrical opera: “The wedding” ). Afterwards for six months takes the lessons of compositions from Christian Theodor Weinling( director of important choro from Lipsia) for him , he dedicates the first his composition, a sonata for pianoforte.
THE COMPOSTIONS, THE MUSIC, WHAT SEARCH WAGNER?
The romanticism?
The sentiments?
The drama?
In music he is represented of the compositions revelated for them elements contrapuntist, riche of chromatism, from harmony, from orchestration, of musical themes associated to people, the places and the sentiments. He becomes the precursor of musical modern language, transforming the musical think crossing the idea of total opera associate to poetic art. His revolutionary art is present in booklets with the influence from traditions of Noreen, Allemande mythology , the knights poems , Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy , the influxes from entire history of classic music. Friedrich Nietzsche ( friend) considering his music a tetralogy with the psychology influence. He compose the compositions , sonatas for pianoforte , in between time he make an activity of musical director in little theatre of Magdeburgo where meet “ the gracious lady Minna Planer” with the lovely sentiments cultivating the fantasy. He is a rebel temperament;with much loves , the sentiments , the depressions. The female sympathy enters in the artist life, he comes often takes by fleeting love relations. His personages are inspired from female charm , from his private life.
The love!
Afterwards he takes the work to Kalingrad orchestra , the director to Riga where he starting to compose Rienzi. Instead he refuges of creditors ( always presents into his life) to London over a storm on the sea he comes inspired of the first work authentically Wagnerian” The flying Dutch”.He know Paris with the poverty , rewriter the pieces on band , in same time know Ludwig Freuerbach with his atheist philosophy , the socialist theory by Pierre Joseph Proudhon influencing the first sessions from tetralogy “ The ring of Nibelungs”. A rebirth of tragic art in Europe( the Dionysian spirit) with instinctual aspect. He know Franz Liszt , a figure more significative for Wagner being the friend, the supporter , the custodian angel. His music takes a stylistic evolution of the compositions ( there are revelated in opera the compositions of Lohengrin and The gold of Rene). The revolution of 1849 take him to Dresda as director, for his politic desire he comes arrested after he passes under the protection by Liszt.
“ Quiet with the politics and the socialist speeches. Need retakes to work with the ardor , that don’t will difficult with the Vulcan that he has in mind. “( Liszt). He travel in Italy, Moscow, London, Vienne and Stockholm. Returned to Paris he presents Tannhàuser , a city that hated, the symbol of” vices and corrupts” but indispensable for arriving the victory into world. He comes welcomed as an exuberant genie , invaded and without scrupulous for the French taste for the music of all the arias and ballets. With the yell, the whistles , the laughs they have welcomed all the executions of the first work that payed the beautiful of 164 compositions. He retires the opera after the third recitation , contrary the uproar make him famous.
“ I was away of this Paris that don’t bring only misfortunes. I will have go for necessarily , to half of this month. But where? What? He is been the my life to peregrinations and I have always the impression to be arrive to End(Wagner)”. Specially his compositions are accompanied of themes from nature and the philosophy by Schopenhauer . Ludwig II by Bavaria is been his protector , aide of him finally putting in representation “ Tristan and Isolde and The masters singers by Nirenberg”( the single comedy compose by Wagner). To fin of representation by Tristan , Ludwig II of Bavaria exit of theatre , salts in train for return to palace , but make him stopping in landscape open takes of strong emotion, riding of single for all the night, comeback to the sunrise by day. The friendly relations and the inspirations from Nietzsche ( presents in Parsifal). Loved much Italy , he is been in varies city where find the inspirations and pace for the compose. To Venice he written Tristan , to Rovello , the Siena’s church imagined the scene of Parsifal finished to Palermo. When he composed wearing elegant and cloths at the exuberant prices, furnished his house with the silk in varies colors and the every room having his particularly color. The fundamental characteristic of Wagner is the representation of drama as the element of introspection, the operas are grandness , to meet the poesy , the recitation, the phycology founded on the logic WORT-TON.DRAMA( the total opera ).
ALL OVER IS THE LOVE FOR THE MUSIC!
The music in drama is composed of un mosaic by themes linked ( leitmotiv) that outline a psychic activity in continue renovation.
“The system of leitmotiv is in rapport of reciprocity with the drama there is a fluid , a swaying , a manner of grow , always vertical lines thus to cutting them every static of given….every sometimes a complex, of phycology links that we need without other of proclamation Freudians”( Giulio Confalonieri- Music History). He comes accused of obscurity and difficult of lengthen pf partitures. In Parsifal the act Del Sigfrido make an incision on the development from psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud , Carl Gustav. In politic he dedicates the new thinks , the sense from theory influenced by Fenerbach, Marx Schopenhauer. To propose of the communism he comes near of Bakunin, contributing to development of racism , an ambitious dream of king lines the humanity under the sacred flame from Allemande spirit. In his conscient: The nature is the last capture , the last more sweet absorption to which the man can aspiration. The woods of Schemann , the lowland of Friedrich Chopin are habited of them as they are, or as the desire he would they being. But the forests of Wagner , the cliffs and the sea is of Wagner to come inhabited become they are the matrices of men…”( Giulio Confalonieri). He die to Venice of 13 February 1883 , followed of a infarct of hearth inside he intending to write the wise” On the female element in human species”. The night the first to die Wagner sound for the last time the pianoforte. He suffered of the insomnia , the night melancholy. He comes buried to Bavaria , the tomb in Bayreuth in garden from his life. The scene of Venetians funerals of Wagner is described of Gabriele d’ Annunzio in roman “ The fire”.
THE OPERA, THE WRITEN OPERAS, THE POETIC OPERAS ….. THE COMPLEXITY FROM THE ART.
“ The wedding , The fairies, The prohibition of love, Rienzi, The flying Duch , Tannhàuser, The ring of Rene, Sigfrido, Tristan and Isolde, Parsifal….
Poems no musical: The Saracen, The mines of Falun, Fredrich I, Jesu of Nazareth, Achille, Aleksander…..
The lists operas : The Allemande opera , The pilgrimage to Beethoven, The end of musician to Paris, Over Allemande music, Over the royal Chapelle, The game of Nibelungs, The man and the actual society , The my life…
Poetic operas: The myth of Nibelungs project of a drama , Die, Not, All Allemande army in front to Paris….
The artistic complexity of Wagner pass all the limits. From music , games, poesy, lecture, philosophy to phycology , an itinerary always present into his musical compositions associate to nature with the sentiments and the passion. He love , lovely of women , his inspiration is crucial crossing the sentimental life. A man who lived , of love in other , running of creditors, arrested for his politic aspirations , winning in music. He cross the Europe, love Italy, chooseVenice for die, romantic as is his music, leaving the liberty of express.
THE PASSION WITH DESTINY!
It can confuse?
Never!
Allemande in origins , in spirit, revolutionary with the enthusiasm change the music creating a new romantic, modern, analytic and psychologic style. Philosophical , you enter in passion links of Wagner, the music takes you far, between the forest and the sea, a ring surrounded of Nibelungs know only of him. It leave you in night under the stars philosophizing your existence, your human kind , loving his theory, his music. A music always crossed of female personage . A philosophic beautiful!

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