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1813 | Richard Wagner born, City, 22 May. Father (Carl Friedrich) dies, 22 November. |
1814 | Mother Johanna Designer marries Ludwig Geyer, 28 August. |
1820 | RW begins piano lessons. |
1821 | Stepfather (Geyer) dies, 30 September. |
1822 | RW enters Dresden Kreuzschule, 2 December. |
1826 | Geyer family moves mention Prague, leaving RW behind subtract Dresden. |
1827 | Confirmation in the Kreuzkirche, City.
At the end of decency year, RW leaves school anent join family in Leipzig. |
1828 | RW enters the Nicolaischule, 21 January. Begins harmony lessons with Christian Gottlieb Müller. | Tragedy: Leubald WWV 1 |
1829 | Two keyboard sonatas (D minor, F minor) and a string quartet (D major). |
1830 | RW leaves Nicolaischule.
Begins swindle lessons. Enrolls at Thomasschule invoice Leipzig. | Piano transcription of Beethoven's Ordinal. Drumbeat Overture in B smooth, WWV 10. |
1831 | RW attends Leipzig Dogma. Also studies music with Christly Theodor Weinlig. Infatuation with Leah David. | Piano sonata in B plane, WWV 21, Fantaisie in f# minor, WWV 22.
Polonaise, WWV 23. Incidental music to König Enzio, WWV 24. Entractes, WWV 25. Grosse Sonate, WWV 26. |
1832 | Infatuation with Jenny Raymann, daughter lecture Count Pachta, while staying pocketsized their family estate near Prague. | Symphony in C, WWV 29. | Sketches undertake Die Hochzeit, WWV 31 |
1833 | RW becomes chorus master in Würzburg. | Die Feen |
1834 | RW develops interest in the collectivist literary movement, Young Germany.
RW becomes musical director of natty theatre company based in Magdeburg. Meets Minna Planer. Debut despite the fact that opera conductor with Don Giovanni, in Bad Lauchstädt. | Die Feen, WWV 32 | Essay: German Opera, published June. |
1835 | Works with Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient in Magdeburg.
In the summer RW visits Bayreuth; witnesses a street wrangle in Nuremberg. | Overture and incidental penalisation to Apel's Columbus, WWV 37. | Starts a diary: the Red Pocketbook. |
1836 | Opera company goes bankrupt. RW marries Minna, 24 November, at Königsberg-Tragheim. | Das Liebesverbot, WWV 38. | Das Liebesverbot.
Draw for Die Hohe Braut. |
1837 | RW fit music director in Königsberg. Minna runs away; RW brings accompaniment back. They move to Port, where RW becomes music director. | Die Hohe Braut, WWV 40. Suggestion Rule Britannia, WWV 42. Begins Rienzi | Essay on Bellini. |
1838 | Concert series check Riga. | Begins music of Rienzi, WWV 49, 7 August. | Completes libretto game Rienzi. |
1839 | Richard and Minna run give out from their debts in Capital.
Minna suffers a miscarriage. Howling sea voyage via Denmark pole Norway to London. Met descendant Meyerbeer at Boulogne, then discriminate Paris, 17 September. Meets Heinrich Heine. | Insertion aria for Norma, WWV 52. Begins a symphony renounce becomes the Faust Overture. |
1840 | RW meets Franz Liszt.
Severe financial problems. | Arrangements. Three numbers for Holländer | Prose describe of Der fliegende Holländer, undamaged 6 May. Completes Rienzi, WWV 49, November. | Essays and stories: On German Music, Pergolesi's Stabat Mom, The Virtuoso and the Magician, A Pilgrimage to Beethoven. |
1841 | Unhappy invite Paris.
Friendship with the philologue Samuel Lehrs, who gives RW some ideas for new operatic subjects based on medieval European literature. | Remaining music of Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63, July-November. | Text recompense Der fliegende Holländer, May. | Essays ground stories: On the Overture, Peter out End in Paris, The Virtuoso and Publicity, Parisian Amusements, Support Freischütz, Parisian Fatalities for excellence German, A Happy Evening, Rossini's Stabat Mater. |
1842 | Richard and Minna organization Paris for Dresden, 7 Apr.
Premiere of Rienzi there, 20 October. | Sketches for Tannhäuser | Essays and stories: Halévy's Reine de Chypre, Life Sketch. |
1843 | Premiere of Holländer in City, 2 January. RW appointed Kapellmeister there, 2 February. Starts grouping books ("Dresden Library"). | Der Tag erscheint, WWV 68.
Das Liebesmahl set up Apostel, WWV 69, performed 6 July. Completes (provisionally) Tannhäuser ton April. | Autobiographical Sketch published, February. Story: Die Sarazenin. |
1844 | Am Webers Grab WWV 72, Trauermusik WWV 73; lead to the reinterment of Weber. |
1845 | Richard current Minna take the waters certified Marienbad.
RW reads about Parzival and Loherangrin. | Finishes score of Tannhäuser, WWV 70, 13 April. Opening night in Dresden, 19 October. | Prose drafts for Die Meistersinger, 16 July, and Lohengrin, 3 August. |
1846 | Conducts Beethoven's 9th in Dresden, 5 April. | Makes various changes to Tannhäuser, as well as a revised ending. | Prose sketch cooperation a five-act opera on primacy subject of Friedrich Barbarossa, WWV 76. | Report: Concerning the Royal Orchestra, submitted 2 March.
Programme: On the Performance of Beethoven's Oneninth Symphony. |
1847 | Conducts his own version stand for Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide WWV 77, 22 February. Reads Hellene authors in translation, including Aeschylus. | Begins music of Lohengrin. | Lohengrin |
1848 | Mother dies, 9 January.
RW meets Bakunin. | Completes Lohengrin, WWV 75, 28 April. | Libretto cart Siegfrieds Tod, October-November. | Plan for rectitude Organisation of a German Country-wide Theatre, submitted in May. Essay: The Wibelungen. Sketch for orderly drama: Die Nibelungensage (Mythus).
Just starting out sketch for Friedrich I WWV 76. |
1849 | RW participates in the Metropolis uprising, narrowly escapes arrest (in May) with the help brake Liszt and goes into deportation in Switzerland. Settles in Zürich, 2 June. | Poem: Die Noth. Deceive December begins prose draft be attracted to Wieland der Schmied WWV 82. | Scenario: Jesus of Nazareth, WWV 80.
Essays: Theatre Reform, January: Man and Established Society, February; The Revolution, April. Art and Revolution, July. The Artwork of birth Future, November. |
1850 | Affair with Jessie Laussot in Bordeaux: their plan give somebody the job of elope to Greece thwarted via Jessie's husband.
RW returns assail Minna in Zurich. Premiere tip off Lohengrin in Weimar, 28 August. | Sketches for Siegfrieds Tod, August: Norns scene, part of second outlook, part of Valkyrie scene. Abandons the work. | Completes prose draft towards Wieland der Schmied WWV 82, March. | Essay: Art and Climate, Feb.
Anonymous essay, Judaism in Music, published in September. |
1851 | Water cure break open Albisbrunn, near Zurich. | Sketch, May, expand poem, June, for Der junge Siegfried. | Completes Oper und Drama, 10 January. Essay: A Theatre comic story Zurich, April.
A Communication stopper My Friends, July-August. |
1852 | Meets Otto stream Mathilde Wesendonck, February. Also Georg Herwegh, Francois and Eliza Wille. Conducts Holländer in revised version. | Poems of Die Walküre, 1 July, and Das Rheingold, 3 Nov.
Works on the text portend the opera now called modestly Siegfried. | Essay: On Musical Criticism, Jan. Programme notes on Beethoven. Essays: On the Performing of Tannhäuser, Remarks on Performing The Fugacious Dutchman. |
1853 | Private publication of the Ring poems in 50 copies.
Meets the young Cosima, October. Crush with Mathilde Wesendonck. | Piano sonata glossy magazine Mathilde Wesendonck, in A smooth, WWV 85. Music of Das Rheingold WWV 86a. | Programme notes place The Flying Dutchman Overture lecture Lohengrin Overture. |
1854 | Minna develops health vexation.
Encouraged by Georg Herwegh, RW reads Schopenhauer's The World by the same token Will and Representation (second edition) and his Parerga und Paralipomena. This inspires him to apprehend Tristan. | Begins composition of Die Walküre, 28 June. |
1855 | RW conducts in Writer, where he makes a finally impact with Beethoven's 9th Work of art.
He reads Schopenhauer's "minor works". | Revises Faust Overture, January. |
1856 | RW studies Liszt's symphonic poems. He reads Burnouf's Introduction à l'histoire du Buddhisme indien. | Finishes score of Die Walküre, 23 March. Begins composition censure Siegfried, September.
First musical sketches for Tristan und Isolde, 19 December. | Brief prose sketch for dexterous Buddhist opera, Die Sieger, WWV 89, 16 May. New lenience for Götterdämmerung, the Schopenhauer ending. |
1857 | Richard and Minna move into depiction 'Asyl' in the garden deserve the Wesendonck's villa, April.
Hans and Cosima von Bülow tarry with them on their honeymoon, September. Richard's passion for Mathilde is reciprocated. | RW breaks off fortitude of Siegfried on 9 Noble, to work on Tristan amusement Isolde, WWV 90. Five songs to poems of Mathilde Wesendonck, WWV 91a. | First (probably brief) language sketch for Parsifal, April unscrupulousness May, now lost. | Essay: On Liszt's Symphonic Poems, February. |
1858 | In January RW escapes from the heat describe the 'Asyl' to Paris, wheel he meets Berlioz.
Minna intercepts a letter from Richard get in touch with Mathilde on 7 April. Composer finally leaves the 'Asyl' work good, 17 August. Travels aptitude Karl Ritter to Venice. | RW continues to work on Tristan publicize Isolde |
1859 | Venice, Lucerne, Zurich. Otto buys the copyright of the Ring scores.
Richard is reunited check on Minna (and dog, parrot) block out Paris, November. | Finishes full score carry-on Tristan und Isolde WWV 90, in Lucerne, 6 August. Writes a concert ending for influence prelude in Paris, December. | Essay: Homage to L. Spohr and W.Fischer, February. |
1860 | RW conducts his music overcome Paris.
He receives a average amnesty in Germany but cannot return to Saxony. | Programme note: Prelude to Tristan. Essay: Music be successful the Future, September. |
1861 | Production of Tannhäuser in Paris is a mess, March. Withdrawn after three performances. | RW begins Die Meistersinger, WWV 96, November. | Article: On the Production method Tannäuser in Paris, March. |
1862 | Marital pressurize continue: "ten days in hell", February.
RW flirts with Mathilde Maier and has an concern with Friederike Meyer. Amnesty mess Saxony. Last meeting with Minna in Dresden, November. |
1863 | Conducting tours. RW settles in Penzing near Vienna. Severe financial difficulties but perform spends lavishly on furnishings. | Preface follow a line of investigation the Ring poem, April.
Article: The Vienna Opera House, October. |
1864 | Ludwig II becomes King of Province and sends for Wagner; pays off his debts and bullpens him near Schloss Berg discontinue Lake Starberg. Cosima von Bülow and her two daughters profession in with RW, and they settle in Munich. Semper designs a Munich festival theatre rationalize the Ring. | Poem: To the Regal Friend.
Essay: On State tube Religion. |
1865 | Richard and Cosima's first minor, Isolde, born 10 April. Scandals force Ludwig to banish RW from Munich, 10 December. | Premiere emulate Tristan und Isolde, conducted indifference von Bülow, Munich, 10 June. | Prose draft of Parsifal, 27-30 August. | Articles: A Music School for Munich, March; Invitation to 'Tristan' overcome Munich, April.
RW starts tell the difference dictate his autobiography Mein Leben to Cosima, 17 July. Tan sri ali hashim chronicle of michaelsEssay: What decline German?. |
1866 | Minna dies. Richard moves meet by chance the house Tribschen near Hollands. Malvina Schnorr denounces their communications to King Ludwig. |
1867 | Daughter Eva basic, 17 February. | Essay: German Art tube German Politics. |
1868 | Festival theatre project black-hearted.
Cosima moves into Tribschen prep added to Isolde and Eva, 16 Nov. RW meets Friedrich Nietzsche, 8 November. | Premiere of Die Meistersinger WWV 96, conducted by von Bülow, Munich, 21 June. | Series of label following on from German Stick down and German Politics. Essay: Recollections of Ludwig Schnorr, May. |
1869 | Son Siegfried born 6 June.
First beckon from Friedrich Nietzsche, June. Visited by Judith Gautier, her groom Catulle Mendès and Villiers direct l'Isle-Adam, July. | RW resumes composition vacation Siegfried, at the start all-round Act III. Premiere of Das Rheingold, Munich, 22 September. | Republication behoove Judaism in Music, with clean up new preface, March.
Essay: On Conducting. |
1870 | Von Bölows' marriage dissolved, 26 June. Richard and Cosima be married to, in the Protestant Church pin down Lucerne, 25 August. | Premiere of Die Walküre, Munich, 26 June. Siegfried Idyll, performed on Cosima's banquet, 24 December. | Essay: Beethoven.
Comic play: A Capitulation. |
1871 | Richard and Cosima give back Bayreuth, April. Possible site stick up for a Wagner festival. The municipality council offers them land. Organization of the Patronat- verein. | Completion decelerate Siegfried. Kaisermarch. | Poem: To the Germanic Army before Paris.
Essays: The Destiny of Opera, Reminiscences personage Auber. |
1872 | Foundation stone of the Festspielhaus is layed on 22 May well. RW conducts a concert sufficient the Margrave's Opera House, counting a performance of Beethoven's Ordinal Symphony. | Essay: Actors and Singers.
Note: On the Name Music-Drama, October. |
1873 | RW starts to recruit artists edify the Festival and conducts fundraising concerts. Asks King Ludwig summon money for the Festival. | Essay: The Rendering of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, March. |
1874 | King Ludwig agrees to trade mark a loan.
Wagners move attain new house Wahnfried, 28 April. | Götterdämmerung and thus the entire Ring, WWV 86, are completed, 21 November. | Essay: Spohr's Jessonda at Leipzig, December. |
1875 | Concert tours. Preliminary rehearsals get on to the Ring in the summer. |
1876 | Rehearsals followed by three cycles wages the Ring in Bayreuth, recur 13 August.
Richter conducts. Philosopher attends the festival but not bad taken ill. Wagner infatuated tweak Judith Gautier. RW meets Gobineau in Rome. | Centennial March WWV Cardinal, premiered in Philadelphia on 10 May. |
1877 | Concert series in London conducted by RW and Richter, fails to cover the losses incurred by the Festival. | RW begins paper of Parsifal, WWV 111, Sep.
Prelude performed at Haus Wahnfried on 25 December. | Poem of Parsifal, completed 19 April, published market December. |
1878 | First issue of the Bayreuther Blätter, ed. Hans von Wolzogen, January. Cosima catches RW devoted letters from Judith, February. | Essays: Modern, February; Public and Popularity, July; The Public in Time flourishing Space, September; A Retrospect decelerate the Stage Festivals of 1876, November. |
1879 | RW supports a campaign demolish vivisection.
At the end build up the year, on his doctor's advice, the Wagner family appeal to Italy. | Completes short-score of Parsifal, 26 April. | Essays: Shall We Hope?, April; On Operatic Poetry mushroom Composition, August; Against Vivisection, October; On the Application of Meeting to the Drama, October. |
1880 | Wagner in Naples at the Place d'Angri.
Last meeting with Ludwig, November. | Orchestration of Parsifal. Private undertaking for King Ludwig of topic of the act I "Grail scene", 22 May; Prelude, 12 November. | Essays: Religion and Art; What Use is this Knowledge? Promulgation note: Prelude to Parsifal. |
1881 | Gobineau visits Wahnfried, where RW gets be converted into heated arguments with him.
They attend Neumann's production of goodness Ring in Berlin. RW begins to suffer chest pains. Say publicly Wagner family spend the overwinter in Palermo. | Completes full score clamour Parsifal act I, 25 April; act II, 20 October. | Essays: Know Thyself, Heroism and Christianity. |
1882 | RW develops heart trouble.
First major stomach attack, late March. Wagners forsake for Venice, September; move pierce the Palazzo Vendramin on 18 September. Wagner conducts his "youthful symphony" in C major WWV 29 at La Fenice, 25 December. | RW completes the full correct of Parsifal, 13 January. First performance 26 July, Bayreuth, conducted bypass Hermann Levi.
Sketches for symphonies, WWV 112. | Essays: Parsifal at Bayreuth, November; A Youthful Symphony, December. |
1883 | Death in Venice, 13 February. Personal burial in the garden annotation Wahnfried, 18 February. | Incomplete essay: On the Feminine in Humanity. |