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.

To many Germans, the expression " stab in the back " was evocative of Richard Wagner's 1876 opera Götterdämmerung, in which Hagen murders his enemy Siegfried with a spear in his back.

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Fricka rides a chariot in this illustration by Arthur Rackham to Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

When they warned him that they would ask Charles Gounod instead and then threatened to engage Richard Wagner's services, Verdi began to show considerable interest, and agreements were signed in June 1870.

( Twilight of the Gods ) is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short ).

Henry returned to public attention as a character in Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin ( 1850 ), trying to gain the support of the Brabantian nobles against the Magyars.

The combination of hushed reverence, chromatic harmonies and sexualized imagery in Richard Wagner's late opera Parsifal gave new significance to the grail theme, for the first time associating the grail – now periodically producing blood – directly with female fertility.

* 1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.

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

The Wagner tuba, a modified member of the horn family, appears in Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and several other works by Richard Strauss, Béla Bartók, and others ; it has a prominent role in Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E Major.

The next major expansion of symphonic practice came from Richard Wagner's Bayreuth orchestra, founded to accompany his musical dramas.

* Das Rheingold – inspired by the Nibelungenlied, the Rhine is one of the settings for the first opera of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

His two forenames were patriotic musical tributes: " Reinhard " referred to the tragic hero from Amen ( an opera written by his father ), and " Tristan " stems from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

* 1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.

* Siegmund, a focal character in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre

Eisenstein returned to teaching and was assigned to direct Richard Wagner's Die Walküre at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Ocarina of Time and its use of melodic themes to identify different game regions has been called a reverse of Richard Wagner's use of leitmotifs to identify characters and themes.

At one point, Dorian attends a performance of Richard Wagner's opera, Tannhäuser, and is explicitly said to personally identify with the work.

Richard Wagner's epic series of operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, is sometimes referred to as a trilogy even though it consists of four works: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung.

Examples include K. Ehrenberg's charcoal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern ) ( 1880 ), Richard Wagner's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848 – 1874 ), the Munich, Germany-based Germanic Neopagan magazine Walhalla ( 1905 – 1913 ), and the comic series Valhalla ( 1978, ongoing ) by Peter Madsen, and its subsequent animated film of the same name ( 1986 ).

In 2011 he was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Ring der Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival, a reflection of his capacity to produce imaginative tributes to great works of art.

Kandinsky was similarly influenced during this period by Richard Wagner's Lohengrin which, he felt, pushed the limits of music and melody beyond standard lyricism.

** Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre is first performed at Munich's National Theatre.

Richard Dawkins in his book River Out of Eden used the computer bootstrapping concept to explain how biological cells differentiate: " Different cells receive different combinations of chemicals, which switch on different combinations of genes, and some genes work to switch other genes on or off.

The concept of a blitzkrieg Luftwaffe was challenged by Richard Overy in the late 1970s and by Williamson Murray in the mid-1980s.

During a 1961 lecture for undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman, a celebrated physics teacher and Nobel Laureate, said this about the concept of energy:

Richard M. Steers and Luciara Nardon in their book about global economy use the " two cows " metaphor to illustrate the concept of cultural differences.

The concept of libre works arose with Richard Stallman ’ s description of free software in 1985 and was codified in the 1986 free software definition.

LambdaMOO has its roots in the 1978 – 1980 work by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle to create and expand the concept of Multi-User Dungeon ( MUD ) – virtual communities.

The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

However, this concept of an electronic spreadsheet was outlined in the 1961 paper " Budgeting Models and System Simulation " by Richard Mattessich.

The concept is also important in Animal rights advocate Richard Ryder ’ s rejection of utilitarianism in which he talks of the ‘ boundary of the individual ’, through which neither pain nor pleasure may pass.

Richard McBrien summarizes this concept as follows:

This concept has its origins in the work of Richard Cantillon in his Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en ( 1755 ) and Jean-Baptiste Say in his Treatise on Political Economy.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins employs the typing monkey concept in his book The Blind Watchmaker to demonstrate the ability of natural selection to produce biological complexity out of random mutations.

Richard Nash Gould, a New York architect, presented the concept to the Municipal Art Society.

Some strong reductionists believe that the behavioral sciences should become " genuine " scientific disciplines based on genetic biology, and on the systematic study of culture ( see Richard Dawkins's concept of memes ).

There are quantum mechanics references as well ; phenomena of non-locality, as in the EPR paradox, make appearances, and the concept of Schrödinger's Cat plays a part in helping Dirk determine Richard's mental state, Richard producing clear and rational arguments for why the experiment proposed in the theory cannot be carried out in reality.

* The JKD Concepts branch, whose proponents include Dan Inosanto, Richard Bustillo, Larry Hartsell ; these groups strive to continue the philosophy of individual self-expression through re-interpretation of combat systems through the lens of Jeet Kune Do, under the concept that it was never meant to be a static art but rather an ongoing evolution, and have incorporated elements from many other martial arts into the main fold of its teachings ( most notably, grappling and Kali / Escrima material ) based on the individual's personal preferences and physical attributes.

The anatomist Richard Owen used this to support his idealist concept of species as showing the unrolling of a divine plan from an archetype, and in the 1830s attacked the transmutation of species proposed by Lamarck, Geoffroy and Grant.

Richard Trachsler says that “ the concept of courtly literature is linked to the idea of the existence of courtly texts, texts produced and read by men and women sharing some kind of elaborate culture they all have in common .” He argues that many of the texts that scholars claim to be courtly also include “ uncourtly ” texts, and argues that there is no clear way to determine “ where courtliness ends and uncourtliness starts ” since readers would enjoy texts which were supposed to be entirely courtly without realizing they were also enjoying texts which were uncourtly.

Richard North says that the description of a raven flying over the Egyptian army ( glossed as wonn wælceaseg ) may have been directly influenced by the Old Norse concept of Valhalla, the usage of wælcyrge in De laudibus virginitatis may represent a loan or loan-translation of Old Norse valkyrja, but the Cotton Cleopatra A. iii and the Corpus Glossary instances " appear to show an Anglo-Saxon conception of wælcyrge that was independent of contemporary Scandinavian influence ".

Richard M. Steers and Luciara Nardon in their book about global economy use the " You have two cows " joke to illustrate the concept of cultural differences.

Adkison set up a new corporation, Garfield Games, to develop Richard Garfield's collectible card game concept, originally called Manaclash, into Magic: The Gathering.

While Liszt had been inspired to some extent by the ideas of Richard Wagner in unifying ideas of drama and music via the symphonic poem, Wagner gave Liszt's concept only lukewarm support in his 1857 essay On the Symphonic Poems of Franz Liszt, and was later to break entirely with Liszt's Weimar circle over their aesthetic ideals.

The ' Siegfried ' leitmotif from Act III of Wagner's opera, the third of his ' Ring ' cycle ; the theme is broader and more richly orchestrated than its earlier appearances ( see above ), suggesting the emergence of Siegfried's heroic character Richard Wagner is the earliest composer most specifically associated with the concept of leitmotif.

The term also hearkens back to Richard Nixon's Silent Majority ; a concept that Ronald Reagan himself used during his political campaigns in the 1970s.