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Richard Wagner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Richard Wilhelm Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas" as he later came to call them). |
 | | Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. |
 | | At the end of 1822, at the age of 9, he was enrolled in the Kreuzschule, Dresden, (under the name Wilhelm Richard Geyer), where he received some small amount of piano instruction from his Latin teacher, but could not manage a proper scale and mostly preferred playing theater overtures by ear. |
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