Last Saturday's interesting melange included Ernst Toch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Yardumian and a brief excerpt from a new `` space '' opera by the Swedish composer, Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

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.

* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

* 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( b. 1902 )

After 1906 the composer Richard Wetz lived in Erfurt and became the leading person in the town's musical life.

The original score was composed by British classical composer Richard Rodney Bennett.

* Richard Hol ( 1825 – 1904 ), Dutch composer and conductor

The respected composer Richard Strauss, for example, became head of the Reich Music Chamber.

* 1928 – Richard M. Sherman, American composer, songwriter, and publisher

* 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic ( d. 1914 )

* 1670 – Richard Leveridge, English singer and composer ( d. 1758 )

* 1904 – Richard Addinsell, British composer ( Warsaw Concerto ) ( d. 1977 )

Richard Kim Milford ( February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988 ) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer.

* 1844 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte, English talent agent, impresario, and composer ( d. 1901 )

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

* 1758 – Richard Leveridge, English bass singer and composer ( b. 1670 )

* 2007 – Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer ( b. 1954 )

* 1914 – Richard E Holz, American composer ( d. 1986 )

* 1977 – Richard Parry, Canadian musician and composer ( Arcade Fire )

In the Prose Edda, and a single poem in the Poetic Edda, the event is referred to as Ragnarök or Ragnarøkkr ( Old Norse " Fate of the Gods " or " Twilight of the Gods " respectively ), a usage popularized by 19th century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung ( 1876 ).

" Usage of this form was popularized in modern popular culture by 19th century composer Richard Wagner by way of the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung.

Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Krantz, a Roman Catholic.

* 1926 – Richard Ellsasser, American organist, composer, and conductor ( d. 1972 )

Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung ) is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 83 ).

Led by the operas of German composer Richard Wagner, such as Der Ring des Nibelungen, Vikings and the Romanticist Viking Revival inspired many creative works.

Possessing a religious yearning for direct insight into the hidden mysteries of life and the universe, and strongly influenced by the operas of Richard Wagner ( who was also Hitler's favourite composer ), King decided Hitler was akin to mythical Wagnerian heroes within whom good and evil were struggling.

* February 13 – The German composer Richard Wagner dies of a heart attack in Venice, Italy.

* February 13 – Richard Wagner, German composer ( b. 1813 )

* May 22 – Richard Wagner, German composer ( d. 1883 )

Franz Strauss, the father of the composer Richard Strauss played the French horn at the premiere, despite his often-expressed dislike of Wagner, who was present at many of the rehearsals.

Tristan und Isolde ( Tristan and Isolde, or Tristan and Isolda, or Tristran and Ysolt ) is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg.

Wesendonck became a supporter of Wagner and bankrolled the composer for several years.

At first, these processes seemed so strange and unprecedented that they were taken as evidence of sheer incompetence .... Now it is recognized that Bruckner's unorthodox structural methods were inevitable .... Bruckner created a new and monumental type of symphonic organism, which abjured the tense, dynamic continuity of Beethoven, and the broad, fluid continuity of Wagner, in order to express something profoundly different from either composer, something elemental and metaphysical.

* Richard Wagner, ( 1813-1883 ) German composer

It is world-famous for its annual Bayreuth Festival at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are presented.

Wieland Wagner, the grandson of the composer, Richard Wagner, was the deputy civilian director there from September 1944 to April 1945.

The town is best known for its association with the composer Richard Wagner, who lived in Bayreuth from 1872 until his death in 1883.

* Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ), composer

* The opera Das Liebesverbot ( 1836 ) by Richard Wagner with the libretto written by the composer based on Measure for Measure

Beginning with songs and string quartets written around the turn of the century, Schoenberg's concerns as a composer positioned him uniquely among his peers, in that his procedures exhibited characteristics of both Brahms and Wagner, who for most contemporary listeners, were considered polar opposites, representing mutually exclusive directions in the legacy of German music.

There were few 20th-century composers who compared with Strauss in terms of orchestral imagination, and no composer since Wagner made a more significant contribution to the history of opera.

Danielewski is particularly fond of the late Romantic composer, Richard Wagner.

The name of the community was inspired by a fan of the opera composer Richard Wagner, and the celebrated status of this hamlet comes primarily from its location as the burial places of the remains of numerous well-known people.