" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.

* 1930 – Cosima Wagner, Hungarian daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner ( b. 1837 )

This was intended to be the nec plus ultra of reform opera, a completely new synthesis of poetry and music that was an 18th-century anticipation of the ideals of Richard Wagner.

Natural instruments are still played for period performances and some ceremonial functions, and are occasionally found in more modern scores, such as those by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.

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* Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner ( opera, composed 1848-1874 )

* Parsifal by Richard Wagner ( opera, composed 1880-1882 )

Several of Bulwer-Lytton's novels were made into operas, one of which, Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( 1842 ) by Richard Wagner, eventually became more famous than the novel.

* Richard E. Wagner

In opera, a new Romantic atmosphere combining supernatural terror and melodramatic plot in a folkloric context was first successfully achieved by Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) and perfected by Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ) in his Ring Cycle.

Tchaikovsky also was of great influence, followed by Rimsky-Korsakov, Richard Strauss and Wagner.

In this, he had the support of Hitler, a passionate devotee of Richard Wagner.

His works were labelled old-fashioned by the ' New German School ' whose principal figures included Liszt and Richard Wagner.

The arts and politics became increasingly influenced by the court ( see Orlando di Lasso, Heinrich Schuetz and later Mozart and Richard Wagner ).

It may also be a euphemism for masturbation, as Richard Wagner accused Nietzsche of masturbating too much.

The composer Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 83 ) ( Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1853 – 70 ) and playwright Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ) were prominent in their critiques of contemporary civilization and for warnings that accelerating " progress " would lead to the creation of individuals detached from social values and isolated from their fellow men.

Some composers, notably Richard Wagner, have written their own libretti ; others have worked in close collaboration with their librettists, e. g. Mozart with Lorenzo Da Ponte.

By the 19th century, accompagnato had gained the upper hand, the orchestra played a much bigger role, and Richard Wagner revolutionised opera by abolishing almost all distinction between aria and recitative in his quest for what he termed " endless melody ".

Illustration inspired by Richard Wagner | Wagner's music drama Das Rheingold

Richard Wagner in 1871

At the same time, the influence of Richard Wagner was felt as a challenge to the French tradition.

Hitler loved the music of Richard Wagner, and he became a close friend of Winifred Wagner after she took over the festival.

* 2001 — Richard Kelly won with Donnie Darko for " Best Screenplay " at the Sitges film festival and at the San Diego Film Critics Society.

The next day, the day of the Tet festival, Sal obtusely asks Richard to kill Karl because of the threat he poses to the mood of the celebrations, with her constant excuse of having to lift the " morale " of the community.

The Leatherhead Drama Festival began in 2004 and is the UK's largest drama festival of its type, in which schools and drama groups from around Surrey and beyond compete each year for the Sir Michael Caine Drama Awards, the Richard Houghton Awards and New Writing Awards.

This England: The Histories was revived in 2006, as part of the Complete Works festival at the Courtyard Theatre, with the Henry VI plays again directed by Boyd, and starring Chuk Iwuji as Henry, Katy Stephens as Margaret, Jonathan Slinger as York and, reprising his role from 2000, Richard Cordery as Gloucester.

This England: The Histories was revived in 2006, as part of the Complete Works festival at the Courtyard Theatre, with the Henry VI plays again directed by Boyd, and starring Chuk Iwuji as Henry, Katy Stephens as Margaret, Forbes Masson as Edward and Jonathan Slinger as Richard.

The festival also brought along a number of news presenters from HTV West including Bruce Hockin, Richard Wyatt and Peter Rowell.

The Bayreuth Festival () is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are presented.

It was under the Third Reich that the festival made its first break from tradition, abandoning the deteriorating 19th century sets created by Richard Wagner.

In June 2010, Muhal Richard Abrams was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by New York City's premier jazz festival, known as the Vision Festival

In 2010 the " Meltdown " festival was curated by Richard Thompson and featured events across the Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Significant modern impresarios in the traditional sense include Thomas Beecham, Rudolf Bing, Sergei Diaghilev, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, Fortune Gallo, Sol Hurok, Aaron Richmond, and jazz festival producer George Wein.

Founded in 1998 by American opera singer Richard Cowan, the festival produces two staged operas every summer, conducted by Music Director Philip Walsh and directed by Mr. Cowan, the Artistic Director.

Richard Dickins has held the post of artistic director for the festival since 1982.

In 2010, Richard Childress announced that Kerry Earnhardt will drive the # 3 car originally driven by his father when he won the Brickyard 400 at a festival.

A train was hired to take participants and public to Edinburgh, to link with the Edinburgh festival ; Charlotte Moorman performed Nam June Paik's TV Bra in the Richard Demarco Gallery.

For 2011, it has been announced that the festival will be moved to Austria, with the organiser Richard Letts citing a reduction in support from the Meribel Tourist Office.

Other bands playing the festival included Basement Jaxx, The Lemonheads, Hot Hot Heat, Kasabian, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr., LCD Soundsystem, Doves, Radio 4 and Richard Hawley.

In 1989, the Dinzelbachers were invited to Cincinnati, Ohio by Richard Powers, to introduce and teach Argentine tango at a weeklong dance festival.

The film tells the story of Nick Rivers ( Kilmer ), a US pop singer ( whose songs sound suspiciously like those of Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys and Little Richard ), who goes to East Germany to perform at a cultural festival.

The Henry VI productions were revived from 7 July 2006 ( and from January 2007, Richard III ) in the RSC's new Courtyard Theatre, as part of the Complete Works festival and also as the first part of an unprecedented 2-year ensemble project to show all the history plays with one set of actors.

Therefore the festival was harshly criticised by German officials and boycotted by German artists like Richard Strauss, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Clemens Krauss.

Buths's festival co-director Richard Strauss was impressed enough by what he heard that at a post-concert banquet he said: " I drink to the success and welfare of the first English progressive musician, Meister Elgar ".

In 1208 King John granted Richard de Lucy, Earl of Egremont a Charter for a Market at Ravenglass on Saturdays and a yearly fair on the festival of St. James, August 5.