Richard Wagner
Germany, 1833–1883
Composer, conductor and theorist whose music dramas transformed 19th-century opera. The extreme chromaticism of Tristan und Isolde pushed Western harmony to the edge of tonality.
Germany, 1833–1883
Composer, conductor and theorist whose music dramas transformed 19th-century opera. The extreme chromaticism of Tristan und Isolde pushed Western harmony to the edge of tonality.