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Richard Wagner: The man behind the myth
Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner managed to create a mythic idea of himself that has obscured who he really was ...
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KS3: Richard Wagner - ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ from ‘Die Walküre’
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 ...
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Six ways you learned about Wagner's Ring Cycle without even noticing
Click on the audio flag to listen to top violinist Nicola Benedetti's Ten Facts about Richard ... Tolkien started writing his Lord of the Rings novels some 64 years after Wagner polished off ...
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Richard Wagner - ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ from ‘Die Walküre’
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 ...
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KS2: Richard Wagner - ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ from ‘Die Walküre’
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 ...