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DTITLE=Richard Wagner / Masters of Classical Music - Vol 5
TTITLE0=Tannhauser: Overture
TTITLE1=Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Dance of the Prentices
TTITLE2=Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Prelude Act 3
TTITLE3=Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Aufzug der Meistersinger
TTITLE4=Der Fliegende Hollander: Overture
TTITLE5=Lohengrin: Prelude
TTITLE6=Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
TTITLE7=Tannhauser: Arrival of the Guests at Wartburg
EXTD=(P)1988 Delta Music Inc.  LaserLight 15 805\n\nRichard Wagner (181
EXTD=3-1883) was born the\nninth child of a Leipzig police official.  
EXTD=He\nlost both his father and his stepfather, the\nactor Ludwig Gey
EXTD=er, at an early age (in\n1813 and 1821, respectively).  He\nattend
EXTD=ed St. Thomas' School in Leipzig,\nan institution rich in musical
EXTD= tradition, but\nfound himself in a continual state of\nconflict w
EXTD=ith the school authorities.\nWagner learned the musician's trade\n
EXTD=partly under C. T. Weinlig, Cantor of St.\nThomas's Church, and p
EXTD=artly through\nautodidactic study of the works of\nBeethoven and W
EXTD=eber.  He was admitted\nto the university without having taken hi
EXTD=s\nschool-leaving examinations.  Glowing with\nambition and a thir
EXTD=st for fame, he soon\nleft the university and spent several years
EXTD=\nof travel as orchestral conductor in the\nsmall theaters of Magd
EXTD=eburg, Konigsberg\nand Riga.  In those years the diminutive\nman (
EXTD=166.5 cm tall) with the characteristi-\ncally-shaped head began t
EXTD=o live in a style\nwhich resulted in decades of financial\nstraits
EXTD=.  Finding that he could be\nproductive only in luxurious clothin
EXTD=g and\nsurroundings and not endowed with the\nfinancial means to a
EXTD=fford them, he\nrepeatedly borrowed money, paid off old\ndebts by 
EXTD=taking out new loans and was\nalmost constantly fleeing his credi
EXTD=tors.\nAfter three years of bitter impoverishment\nin Paris, he en
EXTD=joyed a certain amount of\npeace and financial stability as Court
EXTD=\nConductor in Dresden (1842-1849).  But\nafter participating in t
EXTD=he May Revolution\nof 1849, Wagner was forced to leave the\ncity. 
EXTD= A warrant issued for his arrest, he\nfled to Zurich, spending se
EXTD=veral years in\npolitical exile.  There the "master",\nbrimming ov
EXTD=er with self-confidence and\nincessantly talking, was given a dom
EXTD=icile\nby Otto Wesendonck.  That arrangement,\nhowever, came to an
EXTD= abrupt end in 1859\nwhen Wesendonck discovered that\nWagner was i
EXTD=nvolved in a love affair with\nhis wife Mathilde.  After several 
EXTD=more\nyears of restless travel, Wagner met the\nnineteen-year-old 
EXTD=King Ludwig II of\nBavaria in 1864.  The enthusiastic\nWagnerian m
EXTD=ade huge sums of money\navailable for his idol's further lofty pl
EXTD=ans\nand provided the composer with financial\nsupport during six 
EXTD=happy years spent in\nthe town of Triebschen (near Lucerne).\nThe 
EXTD=king also largely financed the festival\nhouse in Bayreuth, where
EXTD= to this day not\na single note of music by any composer\nother th
EXTD=an Wagner has been heard.
EXTT0=Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra\nVassil Kazandjiev
EXTT1=Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra\nVassil Kazandjiev
EXTT2=Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra\nVassil Kazandjiev
EXTT3=Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra\nVassil Kazandjiev
EXTT4=Budapest Symphony Orchestra\nGyorgy Lehel
EXTT5=Budapest Symphony Orchestra\nGyorgy Lehel
EXTT6=Budapest Symphony Orchestra\nGyorgy Lehel
EXTT7=Budapest Symphony Orchestra\nGyorgy Lehel
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