Reynolds who wrote a trilogy of Gothic horror novels: Faust ( 1846 ), Wagner the Wehr-wolf ( 1847 ) and The Necromancer ( 1857 ).

He took over the development of Judge Dredd when creator John Wagner temporarily walked out, and wrote many of the early stories, establishing the character and his world, before Wagner returned.

Wagner wrote the libretto and music over the course of about twenty-six years, from 1848 to 1874.

Wagner wrote for an orchestra of gargantuan proportions, including a greatly enlarged brass section with new instruments such as the Wagner tuba, bass trumpet and contrabass trombone.

Wagner originally wrote the work to be performed without intermission – an example of his efforts to break with tradition – and, while today's opera houses sometimes still follow this directive, it is also performed in a three-act version.

Composition of the music had begun during May-July of the previous year, 1840, when Wagner wrote Senta's Ballad, the Norwegian Sailors ' song in Act 3 (" Steersman, leave the Watch!

Out of this interest came Die Sieger ( The Victors, 1856 ) a sketch Wagner wrote for an opera based on a story from the life of Buddha.

Wagner wrote of his preoccupations with Schopenhauer and Tristan in a letter to Franz Liszt ( December 16, 1854 ): Never in my life having enjoyed the true happiness of love I shall erect a memorial to this loveliest of all dreams in which, from the first to the last, love shall, for once, find utter repletion.

So in August 1851, Wagner wrote in " Eine Mittheilung an meine Freunde " ( A Communication to My Friends ), " I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas ....".

A letter Wagner wrote to Theodor Uhlig confirms that at this time the opera was intended to have three acts.

Liszt was an enthusiastic performer and supporter, and Wagner himself, after first expressing great reservations about Berlioz, wrote to Liszt saying: " we, Liszt, Berlioz and Wagner, are three equals, but we must take care not to say so to him.

The introduction of valves made this process unnecessary ( though Richard Wagner wrote horn parts as if crooks were still in use, evoking a tradition that was quickly becoming archaic ).

Richard Wagner wrote in his diary about Bakunin's visit:

Though Gluck wrote no operas in German, his example influenced the German school of opera, particularly Weber and Wagner, whose concept of music drama was not so far removed from Gluck's own.

He said that Claudio Monteverdi, Mozart, Chopin, Richard Wagner, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky all wrote strongly coloured music.

Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner dominated the German musical scene, and neither man wrote symphonic poems ; instead, they devoted themselves completely to music drama ( Wagner ) and absolute music ( Brahms ).

* Jane Wagner – Playwright and actress who wrote The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Another reviewer, Lawrence Gilman, a Richard Wagner specialist who later wrote a famously devastating review of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, commenting on the Rhapsody in the New York Tribune on February 13, 1924, said:

Richard Wagner wrote an aria for bass and men's chorus for an 1837 production of Norma.

In 1973, she wrote the screenplay for the TV movie The Affair, starring Natalie Wood and Robert 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.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Wagner / Morris Island – the first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.

In a first for the genre, in 2009 the British Glyndebourne Festival Opera company offered an online digital video download of its complete 2007 production of Wagner ’ s Tristan und Isolde.

The first is a typical classical orchestra ( i. e. Beethoven / Haydn ), the second is typical of an early / mid-romantic ( i. e. Brahms / Dvořák / Tchaikovsky ), late romantic / early 20th century ( i. e. Wagner / Mahler / Stravinsky ), to the common complement of a present day modern orchestras ( i. e. Adams / Barber / Copland / Glass ).

The franchise joined the National League in its sixth season in 1887 and was competitive from its early years, winning three National League titles from 1901 to 1903, playing in the very first World Series in 1903 and winning their first World Series in 1909 behind Honus Wagner.

Many of the total of 14 banquet and beer halls had a Wagnerian theme-indeed, the very name of the complex was taken from the Wagner opera Das Rheingold, the first of the four parts of the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, although this name did hark back to the building's planned former role as a concert venue.

Vikings running back Brent McClanahan returned the ensuing kickoff 22 yards to the 39-yard line, but on the first play of the drive, Tarkenton's pass was intercepted by Wagner.

Then on the first play of the Cowboys ' next drive, Steelers defensive back Mike Wagner intercepted a pass from Staubach and returned it 19 yards to the Dallas 7-yard line.

But Pittsburgh defensive back Mel Blount intercepted a pass from Staubach and returned it 13 yards to the 29, with a personal foul on Dallas tight end Billy Joe Dupree adding another 15 yards and giving the Steelers the ball at their own 44-yard line ( note: The interception happened on exactly the same play that Drew Pearson scored on in the first quarter of Super Bowl X. Mike Wagner intercepted Staubach on exactly the same playcall in the 4th quarter of the same game .).

According to Benjamin, these drafts were astonishing for “ the precision of their materialist deciphering ,” as well as the way in which “ musical facts … had been made socially transparent in a way that was completely new to me .” In his Wagner study, the thesis later to characterize Dialectic of Enlightenment — man's domination of nature — first emerges.

Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality, edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan and first published in 2001, explores the term and its history from an avant-garde perspective.

* July 18 – American Civil War: The first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults Confederate-held Fort Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of African American soldiers during the war.

* Richard Wagner completes his first opera, Die Feen ( The Fairies ).

In 1854, Wagner first read Schopenhauer, and was struck by the philosopher's theories on aesthetics.

Following the completion of Tristan und Isolde, Wagner resumed work on Die Meistersinger in 1861 with a completely different philosophical outlook from that he held when he first drafted his comedy.

These years were some of Wagner's most difficult: the 1861 Paris production of Tannhäuser was a fiasco, Wagner gave up hope of completing Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 1864 Vienna production of Tristan und Isolde was abandoned after 77 rehearsals, and finally in 1866 Wagner's first wife, Minna died.

At the end of the first performance, the audience called for Wagner, who appeared at the front of the Royal box, which he had been sharing with King Ludwig.

He changed the location and names to the final Norwegian version while the opera was in rehearsals for its first production, which took place in Dresden in January 1843 with Wagner himself conducting.

Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.

The first production of Lohengrin was in Weimar, Germany on 28 August 1850 at the Staatskapelle Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and early supporter of Wagner.

It was notably the first performance of any Wagner opera in Italy.

The performance on 9 November was attended by Giuseppe Verdi, who annotated a copy of the vocal score with his impressions and opinions of Wagner ( this was almost certainly his first exposure to Wagner's music ).