WHETHER we admit or not the first dogma of the Wagner creed, that the individual arts have in past times reached their highest possible degree of development, and that the highest art-work of the ...

A) Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, who provided the soundtrack for the Third Reich, albeit 50 years after his death. B) Classical music’s most infamously outspoken anti-Semite. C) A willful, ...

An Israeli orchestra plans to play the music of Wagner, a favorite of Hitler, at a German festival in Bayreuth, despite incorrect reports by Israel’s mass media that the performance has been cancelled ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In his “Ring” cycle, Wagner uses musical themes to create a world of gods, heroes, dwarves and giants. By Michael Cooper Of all the special effects in ...

Wagner was a famously bad pianist. Almost as bad as Berlioz who could hardly play it at all, and worked out his pieces at the guitar (which some say accounts for their sometimes wonky harmonies).

An ignoble racist, Richard Wagner was nonetheless a musical genius whose influence continues to expand until today In 1981, an orchestra in Israel played a musical piece by the famous composer Richard ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. WATCH: The Israel Chamber Orchestra played a work by Richard Wagner during the annual Wagner opera festival in Bayreuth,Germany. (video: Reuters) Members of ...

It's possible to hear a musician perform regularly for many years without knowing everything he's capable of. Who could have guessed, before Tuesday's season-ending concert by the Marin Symphony, that ...