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Q: How old was Richard Wagner when he started playing music?
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What type of music did Richard Wagner play?

Most of his written output was opera, but he did write lieder, a single Symphony, the great Siegfried_Idylland various other minor pieces of music. He was not famous for playing music at all.


What was Richard Wagner's opera called?

Wagner's operas are called "music drama" or "Gesamtkunstwerk" in German because of synthesis of different kinds of arts in it. Wagner used this term in 1849 in the meaning of an operatic performance encompassing music, theater, and the visual arts.


Which musical art can be described as the purest integration of all the arts?

I don't know about purest, but for his operas after Lohrengrin, Richard Wagner started writing "music dramas", which utilized his idea of Gesamtkunstwerk, or the total art work. This incorporated poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music all into one work.


Why did Richard Wagner call his works Music Dramas rather than Operas?

there is a continuous musical flow within each act. there are no breaks where applause can interrupt. the vocal line is inspired by the rhythms and pitches of the German text. They are called music dramas because the story is told as much by the orchestra as by the text, through Wagner's system of leading motives and identifying themes for each character. Wagner felt that operas before him were just music set to words, and he wanted the music itself to tell the story.


Wagner's operas were so large and complex that he called them?

They were called 'music dramas' but it not clear who first coined that phrase.