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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 — 13 February 1883) was a German composer of the Romantic era, primarily of opera (though he also produced a distinguished, melancholy song-cycle, the Wesendonck-Lieder).He was highly influential in the 19th and 20th centuries, promoting a great increase in full orchestration and chromaticism in musical language (leading to the typically "lush" Late Romantic sound), and the development of nationalistic styles. Wagner also developed and popularized the use of themes and motifs (Leitmotif) to represent ideas and characters musically. His copious writings also promoted developments in the stagecraft of his period, developing the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk or "total art work" as a fusion of all elements of a performance, words, dance, music, staging, and so on, to form a single unified experience. Being a man of consequences, eventually he wrote, composed, stage-designed, directed AND conducted his operas himself.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })His principal "music-dramas" (he scorned the term "opera") include Rienzi - Written and composed between 1837 and 1840, premiered in 1842. Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) - Written and composed between 1840 and 1841, premiered in 1843. Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at the Wartburg) - Written and composed in 1845, premiered in 1845. Lohengrin - Written and composed between 1845 and 1848, premiered in 1850. Tristan und Isolde - Written and composed between 1857 and 1859, premiered in 1865. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) - Composed between 1861 and 1867, premiered in 1868. Der Ring Des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), composed between 1849 and 1876, premiered in 1876, consisting of four parts: Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold) Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) Siegfried Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) Parsifal - Written and composed between 1877 and 1882, premiered in 1882.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Besides serving as models for composers of dramatic music (such as Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Max Steiner) up to the present, these works have themselves been frequently adapted for use in dramatic productions — as, for example, the Bridal Chorus „Treulich geführt‟ from Lohengrin, which has become a Standard Snippet synonymous with weddings, and his "Ride of the Valkyries" from Walküre, ubiquitous in contexts of war and flying. Though Wagner was by no means incapable of delicacy, his compositions have typically been used in contexts of Sturm und Drang. Classic Looney Tunes cartoons seem particularly addicted to Wagner's music — and two of the composer's greatest works were gloriously parodied in the famous short What's Opera, Doc?.His extreme nationalism caused him to be adopted very soon as a symbol of Germany, particularly in its most militaristic and imperialist modes, and his virulent anti-Semitism and the fact that Adolf Hitler loved his music has made Wagner the ideal musical symbol of the Nazi Reich: depictions of the downfall of Nazi Germany are almost automatically accompanied by "Siegfried's Funeral March" from (naturally) Götterdämmerung.note It is highly unlikely that Wagner would have returned Hitler's admiration, not least because Wagner was a socialist for most of his life and befriended the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin and participated in the Dresden May Uprising, which resulted in his exile by the Saxon government. Anyone actually familiar with the texts of his works will note that one of the major themes running through his work is "power is evil, love is good" - not a Nazi-friendly message in the slightest, and really much closer to anarchism. (Wagner's anti-Semitism may have been a case of Boomerang Bigotry, as Ludwig Geyer, the man whom he suspected of being his biological father, was also (apparently incorrectly) reputed to be of Jewish ancestry.) Due to the aforementioned points Wagner was semi-officially banned in Israel for a long time and even today playing Wagner in Israel is a major breach of taboo and guaranteed to cause controversy. On the flip side, Bayreuth has had a festival dedicated exclusively to his music that has basically made the 80 000 soul town a major scene in the world of classical music all by itself. Tickets sell out ten years in advance and frequent attendants include Angela Merkel and the who's who of German celebrities. While you will get in trouble for saying something positive about Wagner in Israel, you will get in trouble for saying something negative about him in Bayreuth. Wagner was once close friends with Friedrich Nietzsche before they had a huge falling out.Wagner was the subject of a 1954 Biopic, Magic Fire, and of Wagner, a 1983 TV mini-series starring Richard Burton. Trevor Howard played him in Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1972). | |
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Fanfare | |
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Fanfare: Several of Wagner's Leitmotifs (e.g., Lohengrin's motif) have the character of fanfares; more conventional examples introduce the Overture to Rienzi and the Festival March from Tannhäuser. At Bayreuth, certain motifs are played as fanfares from the balcony of the Festspielhaus to announce the beginning of an act. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Besides Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, who is modeled on (but not identified with) the historical St. Elisabeth of Thuringia, it is said that the character of Beckmesser in Meistersinger was meant as a caricature of the Viennese music critic, Eduard Hanslick. | |
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Love Potion | |
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Love Potion: Shows up in Tristan und Isolde — with portentous consequences. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: As with Telramund and Klingsor (even in his... er... condition, which should have him singing soprano). On the other hand, Landgrave Hermann, Henry the Fowler, Hans Sachs, Gurnemanz, and Titurel are all deep-voiced goodies; and on the other other hand, Ortrud is a mezzosoprano/soprano. | |
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Hitler Ate Sugar | |
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Hitler Ate Sugar: Yes, Adolf Hitler was a fan of Wagner's music; no, it does not necessarily mean that if someone else is a fan of Wagner's music, they're a Nazi. Wagner did infamously publish some nasty anti-semitic pamphlets, but most fans today are willing to separate the composer's distasteful views from his musical achievements. Put it this way: Famous admirers of Wagner's music also include Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism. C. S. Lewis, a lifelong Wagner fan, was dismayed by the Nazis' admiration for Wagner until he heard Nazi propagandists saying that the real hero of the Ring Cycle was not Siegfried but Hagen. He wrote an article gleefully arguing this proved decisively that they just didn't get it. | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis: An astonishing number of Wagnerians have been attracted to his music via Apocalypse Now and Looney Tunes cartoons. | |
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The Heavy | |
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The Heavy: Klingsor in Parsifal is perhaps a typical example. | |
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Lady Macbeth | |
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Lady Macbeth: Ortrud | |
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Ãœbermensch | |
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Übermensch: Nietzsche saw Siegfried as the type of the new man who would transcend outworn moralities. | |
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Ghost Ship | |
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Ghost Ship: Wagner's interpretation of the Flying Dutchman legend had the ship filled with a phantom crew. | |
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Sadly Mythtaken | |
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Sadly Mythtaken: Or sometimes Willfully Mythtaken. Wagner has enraged folklorists from his own time to the present for adapting ancient myths and legends with abandon, and in the process, ousting the originals from the minds of most of the public. | |
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FlyingDutchman | |
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Flying Dutchman: Wagner's is the definitive version. His land-bound Distaff Counterpart is Kundry in Parsifal. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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His land-bound Distaff Counterpart is Kundry in Parsifal. | |
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Auteur License | |
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Auteur License: All of Wagner's later pieces of "Gesamtkunstwerk", most famously The Ring of the Nibelung, featured words, music, orchestration, set design, choreography, direction, and conducting, created by Wagner himself— in a concert hall that he designed and built for the purpose. | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: It has been asserted that when composing the Ring, Wagner at one point intended for the operas to be performed three times in a purpose-built opera house. Afterward, all copies of the score and all the props were to be burned, along with the entire opera house. Obviously this did not happen. | |
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Throwing Out the Script | |
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Throwing Out the Script: In Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, when Walther starts singing his prize song at the contest (after Beckmesser made a travesty out of it), Kothner unconsciously drops the music sheet. Walther sees this and turns his song into a more elaborate one than what he had set down earlier. | |
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Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill... | |
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In an episode of the short lived series Veritas: The Quest, the protagonists find Albert Speer's secret bunker. One of them starts going through a record collection in the corner: "Wagner...Wagner...Wagner...Best Of Wagner..." | |
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Kill 'Em All | |
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Kill 'em All: Wagner started on the path of Everyone Dies early. His boyhood tragedy Leubald featured twenty-four deaths; by the last act, he had killed off so many that he had to bring some characters back as ghosts. Played out to a very literal and final conclusion in Götterdämmerung. The world is destroyed and literally everyone except the Rhine Maidens (Yes even the Gods) is killed. | |
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Flame War | |
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Flame War: Bringing up Wagner in any opera discussion forum will lead to some very heated remarks on both sides. As if his "revolutionary music" wasn't controversial enough, his anti-Semitic rants and the whole Hitler angle guarantee that Godwin's Law is inevitable. One music historian said, "I never discuss politics, religion, or Wagner. It always makes for bad blood and originates quarrels." | |
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TheMiddleAges | |
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The Middle Ages: The setting for most of his music-dramas. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The combat between Lohengrin and Telramund lasts perhaps two minutes, and is set to rather perfunctory music. | |
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Woman Scorned | |
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Woman Scorned: Kundry's reaction, when Parsifal rejects her allurements, is not understanding. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: As with Beckmesser's ludicrous serenade in Meistersinger. | |
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Evil Sorcerer | |
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Evil Sorcerer: Ortrud in Lohengrin; Klingsor in Parsifal. | |
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Dark Age Europe | |
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Dark Age Europe / The Low Middle Ages: Parsifal, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde | |
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BSoD Song | |
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B.S.O.D. Song: Usually, for some reason, sung by a bass-baritone. | |
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Evilutionary Biologist | |
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In George C. Chesbro's The Beasts of Valhalla, Evilutionary Biologist Siegmund Loge (ha ha) is a fanatical Wagner fan. | |
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Valkyries | |
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Valkyries: It is Wagner's version that most people think of when imagining these mythological "Gatherers of the Slain" — however, it is worth noting that unlike the popular conception, Wagner's original Valkyries did not wear horned helmets, but winged ones; did not ride winged horses, though they were aerial ones; and, though intended to be rather manly, ungentle women, were intended to be statuesque in the 19th century manner, rather than grossly obese. | |
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Space Jews | |
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Space Jews: Klingsor from Parsifal is generally considered to be one of these. Some would also include the Nibelungs from the Ring, especially Mime, and the villainous Beckmesser from Meistersinger, though those cases are more debated. Considering Wagner's own distasteful antisemitic views, this interpretation can have serious Unfortunate Implications, especially since Wagner never actually said that any of his characters were meant to reflect Jewish people. We should probably leave it at that. | |
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Mood Motif | |
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Mood Motif: One of the basic functions of the Leitmotiv. | |
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Music of Note | |
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Music of Note: Even more famous than the "Ride of the Valkyries" is the Standard Snippet „Treulich geführt‟ (AKA "Here Comes the Bride") from Lohengrin — but Wagner works are stuffed so full of Music of Note that it would be easier to list his "American Centennial March" right away. Among music theory circles, the first three bars of Tristan und Isolde is one of the most widely analysed and debated moments in Wagner's whole output, mostly due to the infamous "Tristan chord." These bars have been subsequently quoted by many composers, either seriously or in jest, i.e. Debussy in "Golliwog's Cakewalk. Peter Schickele also parodied it in Last Tango in Bayreuth. | |
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Hot-Blooded | |
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Hot-Blooded: Walther in Meistersinger „flammt auf‟ when Sachs suggests that Beckmesser may be his rival for Eva's hand. | |
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At the Opera Tonight | |
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At the Opera Tonight: Wagner's operas are among the favorites for characters to attend, as in the 1931 Dracula film (Meistersinger) or in Nicholas Meyers' Sherlock Holmes novel, The Seven Per Cent Solution (Siegfried). | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: In Holländer Vanderdecken is saved from eternal maritime damnation by Senta's faithful love; in Tannhäuser, Heinrich is saved from eternal intramontane damnation by Elisabeth's faithful love. On the other hand, in Lohengrin Elsa's love for the eponymous swan-knight brings causes her to ask the fateful question which drives him away. Though Walther and Eva love each other, of course, it is rather The Power of Art than The Power of Love that brings about the happy ending in Meistersinger. Tristan and Isolde's love brings destruction upon them. Parsifal actually rejects the love (if one can call it that) of the Flower Maidens and Kundry to become the hero. Invoked in Wagner's earlier works, this trope is more often subverted in his later ones. | |
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Only the Chosen May Wield | |
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Only the Chosen May Wield: The sword in the ash tree, which can be only pulled out by Siegmund, as he does in Die Walküre Act I. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Wagner makes a big deal out of Parsifal's name being Persian for "pure fool." It isn't, really. | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
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Ac CENT Upon The Wrong Syl LA Ble: Beckmesser's serenade in Meistersinger is faulted for this by „Merker Hans Sachs‟, as with „die MIR wohl GEfall'n THUT." | |
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Idiot Hero | |
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Idiot Hero: Parsifal, „der reine Tor‟ ("the pure fool"). Also Siegfried who is too stupid to learn what fear is. | |
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Engagement Challenge | |
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Engagement Challenge: In Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner, Walther must win the song contest at the feast of St. John before he gets the hand of Eva. | |
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World of Ham | |
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World of Ham: "Wagnerian" has become practically a synonym for this. | |
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The Chosen One | |
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The Chosen One: Parsifal, „der reine Tor, den [Gott] erkor' ‟ | |
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Space Opera | |
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Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap series is literally a Space Opera, being an adaptation of the Ring IN SPACE!. | |
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SamAndMax | |
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In the Sam & Max episode The Tomb of Sammun-Mak, we know that little Amelia Earhart listens to "The Ride of the Valkyries" as a lullaby. | |
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Mr. Exposition | |
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Mr. Exposition: Gurnemanz in Parsifal. Almost all of Act I consists of Gurnemanz explaning the back story. | |
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Tenor Boy | |
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Tenor Boy: Erik, Lohengrin, Walther, Siegfried and Parsifal — the more "boyish" Wagnerian rôles. Perhaps subverted in Tannhäuser, in which the more sensual Heinrich is a tenor, the more innocent Wolfram a baritone. | |
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Forging Scene | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_8ec5beed | comment |
Siegmund's sword Notung, shattered by Wotan and reforged by Siegfried. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_90b66e22 | comment |
Femme Fatale: Kundry from Parsifal. | |
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HeartBeatSoundtrack | |
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Heart Beat Soundtrack: Wagner often used kettledrums this way in his music dramas. | |
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Recycled Trailer Music | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_960810e8 | comment |
Recycled Trailer Music: Long even before Apocalypse Now, Wagner's works were popular musical "fillers" for as yet uncomposed scores. | |
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Theme Song Reveal | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_969fd766 | comment |
Theme Song Reveal: One of the basic uses of the Leitmotif. | |
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Orchestral Bombing | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_978355c | comment |
Orchestral Bombing: The Prelude to Act III of ''Lohengrin'', has become something of a Standard Snippet for air raids (as well, of course, as the Walkürenritt). | |
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Leitmotif | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: The Leitmotif technique, if not invented by Wagner, was certainly perfected by him. In his operas, not only would every character have his/her own motif, but also objects, places, and even abstract ideas, all of which would be woven into a complex symphonic whole, in which the variations of the motifs have a psychological effect far more significant than a mere announcement of a character's presence. | |
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Standard Snippet | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_a3f1531b | comment |
Standard Snippet: Besides the obvious Lohengrin wedding and Walküre bombing examples, storms at sea have very commonly invoked the Overture to Der fliegende Holländer. | |
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Fluffy Fashion Feathers | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_a409e6f9 | comment |
In 2011, a performance of Lohengrin dressed Elsa and Ortrud in mostly matching dresses with bell-shaped skirts covered with feathers. Elsa's was her Fairytale Wedding Dress, and Ortrud's was all black. | |
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Celibate Hero | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_a5d92fce | comment |
Celibate Hero: Parsifal, in his eponymous opera (though he does, of course, eventually father Lohengrin). | |
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Cool Sword | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_a6275bef | comment |
Cool Sword: As Lohengrin tells Elsa of the blade he gives her for Gottfried, „In wildem Kampf, dies' Schwert ihm Sieg verleit.‟ Siegmund's sword Notung, shattered by Wotan and reforged by Siegfried. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_a8dcb1d7 | comment |
Love at First Sight: Plenty of examples in Wagner's operas. In Lohengrin, our hero asks Elsa to marry him immediately after arriving in Brabant on a swan-led boat. Isolde plans to kill Tristan with a sword, but instead she falls in love with him after viewing his piteous glance. | |
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Brawn Hilda | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_aa55cd25 | comment |
Brawn Hilda: The character, in his adaptation of Nibelungenlied, is the Trope Maker. | |
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Public Domain Artifact | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_ad8dbae4 | comment |
Public Domain Artifact: The Grail in Lohengrin and Parsifal; the Holy Spear in Parsifal. (The Ring (or rather, any of its prototypes) was not a well-known artifact before Wagner.) | |
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Ur-Example | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_b20fdfc8 | comment |
Tristan und Isolde, and its prelude especially, is often cited as the Ur-Example of the modernist departure from tonality. While the work is still rooted in the traditions of German music, Wagner stretched the tonal system well beyond the limits of many listeners and critics in his day - often delaying the resolutions to dominants or not giving them at all. | |
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Common Time | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_b3247afd | comment |
Common Time: For example, the Festival March from Tannhäuser. | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_b5049d76 | comment |
Added Alliterative Appeal: Common in Wagner, as in these lines from Tannhäuser:„Wenn wir den grimmen Welfen widerstanden,/Und den verderbenvollen Zwiespalt wehrten...‟note "If we withstood the grim Guelphs, and warded off disastrous division... This is likely based on the fact that alliteration was the standard verse-form in Germanic poetry. | |
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Take That! | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: As mentioned previously (See No Celebrities Were Harmed above) Sixtus Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger was reputed to be a thinly-veiled caricature of Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick. More directly, Wagner mocked rival composers such as Meyerbeer and Rossini in his prose works. During the Franco-German War of 1870/71 Wagner wrote a "satirical" play in which he mocked Victor Hugo and Jacques Offenbach. | |
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The High Middle Ages | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_bd86c157 | comment |
The High Middle Ages: Rienzi and Tannhäuser | |
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Opera | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_c389390e | comment |
Opera: Uh... yeah. Wagner did compose a few other works, such as the Wesendonck-Lieder and the Siegfried-Idyll — but the music-dramas constitute the composer's most extensive and important achievement. | |
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Nice Hat | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_c5249c79 | comment |
Nice Hat: Besides popularizing winged (and horned) helmets, the composer's own characteristic large, slouched beret (see pic, above) is actually called a Wagnerkappe in German. | |
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Serial Escalation | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_ce104b8e | comment |
Serial Escalation: Where Wagner took opera — I mean, Bühnenfestspiel. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Parsifal actually introduces its eponymous hero this way, with him being reprimanded for senselessly killing a swan. Of course, he's The Fool and has a lot to learn — he doesn't even know his name at this point. | |
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Dreadful Musician | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_d4e9de59 | comment |
Dreadful Musician: Wagner was a horrible pianist, but he said that he played it "a great deal better than Berlioz" — who couldn't play the piano at all. | |
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The Epic | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_e36191 | comment |
The Epic: Parsifal. All six hours of it. Der Ring des Nibelungen. | |
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Light Is Not Good | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_e543a655 | comment |
Light Is Not Good: For a Romantic like Wagner, light was associated with the order, reason, and civilization of the previous century's Classicism, while Romanticism invoked chaos, emotions, nature or savagery, and darkness. This is seen in Tristan und Isolde, where the eponymous lovers meet in dark forests to proclaim their irrational love for each other, while Isolde's husband King Marke is associated with the light, civilization, and reason. | |
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PimpedOutDress | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_e5448c9 | comment |
Pimped-Out Dress: Quite a few performances of his operas will dress the female leads in one when appropriate. In 2011, a performance of Lohengrin dressed Elsa and Ortrud in mostly matching dresses with bell-shaped skirts covered with feathers. Elsa's was her Fairytale Wedding Dress, and Ortrud's was all black. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: The later works are "music-dramas," not operas. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
| Richard Wagner (Music) / int_e596f27b | comment |
Star-Crossed Lovers: Senta and The Dutchman die (but go to Heaven); Elisabeth and Heinrich die (and probably go to Heaven); Elsa and Lohengrin are parted forever (until they meet in heaven?); Tristan is mortally wounded, Isolde falls dead onto his body (Liebestod). Falling in love is generally not a good idea in a Wagner opera. | |
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Bad to the Bone | |
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Bad to the Bone: Wagner is very popular as an ominous cue in film; the Looney Tunes series is very fond particularly of the Nibelung and Giant motifs in heralding any sinister doings. | |
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Combat by Champion | |
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Combat by Champion: When Elsa is accused by murder, Lohengrin shows up to serve as her champion and defeat her accuser Telramund in single combat and thereby establish her innocence. | |
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Trial by Combat | |
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Trial by Combat: Lohengrin fights a judicial combat for Elsa of Brabant in his eponymous opera. | |
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Malicious Slander | |
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Malicious Slander: In Lohengrin, Elsa is falsely accused of killing her little brother Gottfried, the child-Duke of Brabant (who had actually been turned into a swan by the Evil Sorceress Ortrud. Then the eponymous Knight in Shining Armor comes to her rescue. | |
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Lohengrin and Mendelssohn | |
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Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: The Master provided half the trope name; he probably would not have been pleased with the other half. | |
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