George Wagner

outlandishness of a character. George Wagner was a professional wrestler back then, which later became known as a golden era, during a time when kayfabe was alive and well (For those who don’t know wrestling terms, kayfabe essentially means that nobody knew professional wrestling was pre-determined). But when Wagner adopted his in-ring persona of “Gorgeous” George, both his and the sport’s popularity exploded. That’s right, watching wrestling used to be a household activity. What a time to be alive. Known for his cheating tactics and ridiculing of fans, often referring to them as “peasants”, Wagner’s…

relations with in his early years. One of Debussy’s mistresses, Gabrielle DuPont, threatened to commit suicide. Additionally, Rosalie Texier was actually Debussy’s first wife; and she actually tried to commit suicide. The suicide attempt was unsuccessful when she tried to shoot herself, and the thought of suicide actually dwelled in the back of Debussy’s mind, as it did other passionate artists of his time. (Lockspeiser) Claude Debussy was influenced by many other composers to create his own…

Richard Georg Strauss was born in Munich on June 11, 1864. He was the first child of the musician Franz joseph and his wife Josepha. At the age of six years old he was composing his own first piece of music. At the age of eighteen he had composed a 140 works of his own. Upon recommendation of his own Mentor at the time, the renowned Wagner Conductor Hans von Bulow, Richard Strauss became the most Music director in in the Meninges at the young age of 21. One year later in 1886, the musician…

Richard Wagner, a Romantic German composer, is one of the leading opera composers of his time; he often defined his stage works using the term bühnenfestspiel, or festival stage play. He is known for writing several such works, including Lohengrin, Der Ring des Nibelungen, and Tristan und Isolde. In these works Wagner is credited with the use of many compositional devices and philosophies. In particular, he is recognized for employing the idea of a “gesamtkunstwerk,” or collective art, in…

Opera has always been known for bringing the most drama into the theater, but in the beginning of the 1800’s opera was split into two separate categories, the bel canto and the Gesamtkunstwerk. The Italian Opera was always more popular as this is where opera began, but the bel canto somewhat altered what opera looked like. Bel Canto was characterized by one main singer, one voice that was most prominent. Instruments were used to create a background, they were to support the main voice,…

compose words for the opera. In the early 19th Century, Wagner had strong ideas and beliefs of what opera should be, and he began to challenge all of the conventional approaches to the opera. Writing his own libretti, the idea of “Gesamtkunstwerk”, and the creation of his own instruments and adaptation of singing styles are just a few examples.…

Richard Wagner was one of the most influential, if not controversial composers of his time. Born in Germany on May 22, 1813, Wagner grew up writing musical compositions and dramas from the age of eleven. He had such high of a confidence that it would be overbearing to others that he met. It is uncertain who Wagner’s father was. He could either be the “son of police actuary Friedrich Wagner” who passed away when Richard was an infant or he could be the son of Ludwig Geyer. Geyer was a painter,…

what can be considered art is such a large expansion that hardly any notions made about one piece can hold up to another. Artists create their works for a vast amount of different reasons, and some are solely for the purpose of an ethical or moral standpoint while others are simply for the sake of beauty or emotion. Artists’ morality will not always bleed into a work of art, but there are a great number of cases where they do. Also, not to mention, all moral claims are entirely subjective to the…

had basically everything Camden had, but simply in one full building. Camden also started declining after World War ll when people were affected by job loss and property value decreasing. The last straw to Camden’s decline was the riots, people started to rapidly move out after that. Nobody wanted to be somewhere it was not safe anymore, so people started to move further away from Camden. Dajuan Wagner who is now 33 years old was an American professional basketball player from…

Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany. At twenty, he abandoned his academic studies at the University of Leipzig and over the next six years gained practical experience conducting in provincial theaters. He married the actress Minna Planer when he was twenty-three and produced his rst operas at this time. He wrote the librettos himself, as he did for all his later works. In this way, he was able to unify music and drama more than anyone had before. Wagner’s early opera, Rienzi, won a huge…