He described this vision in a series of essays published between 18. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( / ˈ v ɑː ɡ n ər/ VAHG-nər German: ( listen) – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
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