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“How did Wagner set about the restoration of opera?”
Richard Wagner, whose works are almost entirely operatic, was one of the most forceful and influential characters in music history. ... Wagner’s influence is inescapable and his genius so persuasive that the more unpleasant aspects of his personality – particularly the virulent anti-Semitism expressed in his poetical writings, which certainly contributed to the climate of opinion in Germany that led to Hitler’s National Socialism – tend to have been overlooked.
Wagner owed a lot of his own early operas in the German Romantic style to Carl Maria von Weber.
Wagner’s operas, rooted in the German Romantic tradition, remain the cornerstones of the modern repertoire. Lohengrin – another legendary tale of knightly chivalry with a strong magical element – marked the end of Wagner’s involvement with conventional German Romantic opera.
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