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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about Wagner
Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about Wagner, trivia and information, including some useful details of facts about the life events of this famous composer will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

Interesting Facts about this famous classical composer and musician are as follows:

  • Fact 1 - Accomplishments and reasons Wagner is famous: Classical Composer and musician, famous for his operas, one of the leading Romantic Period Composers

  • Fact 2 - Richard Wagner was born May 22nd, 1813 in Leipzig in Germany
  • Fact 3 - His operas, like the novels of Charles Dickens, are full of wonderful characters
  • Fact 4 - Besides people there are gods and goddesses, and giants, and other strange beings which feature in his operas
  • Fact 5 - As a boy Richard Wagner went to a classical school
  • Fact 6 - He could translate Greek when he was only 13 years old
  • Fact 7 - As a boy Wagner studied the piano and was fond of the music of Von Weber
  • Fact 8 - Among the books that Richard Wagner read as a boy were the story of Die Meistersinger and the story of Tannhauser
  • Fact 9 - When Wagner became a composer he wrote an opera upon each of these stories
  • Fact 10 - He met Minna Planer, a young actress with the Magdeburg opera company, whom he married
  • Fact 11 - Richard Wagner frequently ran up debts and to to move as a consequence
  • Fact 12 - As he became more successful he managed to clear his debts
  • Fact 15 - Richard Wagner suffered a heart attack
  • Fact 16 - Richard Wagner died at Venice on February 13, 1883
  • Fact 17 - A private burial was held for Richard Wagner in the grounds of Wahnfrie in the city of Bayreuth
  • Fact 18 - His music lives on and the musical works of Richard Wagner include the following:
    • Rienzi - 1838-40
      Der fliegende Hollander - 1841
      Tannhäuser - 1845
      Lohengrin - 1848
      Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle) - 1854-78
      Das Rheingold - 1854
      Die Walküre - 1856
      Siegfried - 1869
      Gotterdammerung - 1878
      Tristan und Isolde - 1859
      Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - 1868
      Parsifal - 1882

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