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| 1813 | Richard Wagner born, Leipzig, 22 May. Pop dies, 23 November. |
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| 1814 | Mother Johanna Wagner marries Ludwig Geyer, 28 August. |
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| 1820 | RW begins forte-piano lessons. |
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| 1821 | Stepfather dies, 30 September. |
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| 1822 | RW enters Metropolis Kreuzschule, 2 December. |
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| 1826 | Geyer family moves censure Prague, leaving RW in Dresden. |
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| 1827 | RW leaves school to join family in Leipzig. |
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| 1828 | RW enters the Nicolaischule, 21 January. Begins harmony lessons. | Tragedy: Leubald WWV 1 |
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| 1829 | | Two keyboard sonatas and a string quartet. |
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| 1830 | RW leaves Nicolaischule. Begins violin lessons. | Piano transcription drawing Beethoven's 9th. Three overtures, including nobility Drumbeat Overture in B flat, WWV 10. |
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| 1831 | RW attends Leipzig University. Also studies music with Weinlig. Infatuation with Leah David. | Piano sonata in B flat, WWV 21, Fantaisie in f# minor, WWV 22. Polonaise, WWV 23. Incidental euphony to Raupach's König Enzio, WWV 24. Entractes, WWV 25. Grosse Sonate expansion A, WWV 26. |
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| 1832 | Infatuation with Jenny Raymann, daughter of Count Pachta. | Symphony in Adage, WWV 29. | Sketches for Die Hochzeit, WWV 31 |
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| 1833 | RW becomes chorus master in Würzburg. | Die Feen, WWV 32 | Die Feen |
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| 1834 | RW develops gain somebody's support in the socialist literary movement, Countrified Germany. Debut as opera conductor consider Don Giovanni. Meets Minna Planer. | Essay: German Opera, published June. |
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| 1835 | Works with Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient. | Overture and incidental music to Apel's Columbus, WWV 37. | Starts a diary: the Red Pocketbook. |
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| 1836 | Opera company goes bankrupt. RW marries Minna, 24 November. | Das Liebesverbot, WWV 38. | Das Liebesverbot. Sketch for Die Hohe Braut. |
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| 1837 | RW appointed music director in Königsberg. Minna runs away; RW brings her incident. They move to Riga, where RW becomes music director. | Die Hohe Braut, WWV 40. Begins Rienzi | Essay on Bellini. |
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| 1838 | Concert programme in Riga. | Begins music of Rienzi, WWV 49, 7 August. |
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| 1839 | Richard and Minna bang away from their debts in Port. Stormy sea voyage via Denmark most important Norway to London. Met by Composer at Boulogne, then to Paris, 17 September. Meets Heinrich Heine. | Insertion aria shadow Norma, WWV 52. Begins a work of art that becomes the Faust Overture. |
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| 1840 | RW meets Franz Liszt. Severe financial problems. | Arrangements. Link numbers for Holländer | Prose sketch of Der fliegende Holländer, May. Completes Rienzi, WWV 49, November. | Essays and stories: On Germanic Music, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, The Master and the Artist, A Pilgrimage meet Beethoven. |
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| 1841 | Unhappy in Paris. Friendship with blue blood the gentry philologist Samuel Lehrs, who gives RW some ideas for new operatic subjects based on medieval German literature. | Remaining song of Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63, July-November. | Text of Der fliegende Holländer, May. | Essays and stories: On the Overture, Double-cross End in Paris, The Artist pole Publicity, Parisian Amusements, Der Freischütz, Frenchman Fatalities for the German, A Decayed Evening, Rossini's Stabat Mater. |
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| 1842 | Richard and Minna leave Paris for Dresden, 7 Apr. Premiere of Rienzi there, 20 October. | Sketches for Tannhäuser | Essays and stories: Halévy's Reine de Chypre, Autobiographical Sketch. |
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| 1843 | Premiere of Holländer in Dresden, 2 January. RW settled Kapellmeister there, 2 February. Starts mass books. | Der Tag erscheint, WWV 68. Das Liebesmahl der Apostel, WWV 69, faultless 6 July. Begins music of Tannhäuser. | Autobiographical Sketch published, February. Story: Die Sarazenin. |
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| 1844 | | Trauermusik for the reinterment of Weber. |
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| 1845 | Richard pivotal Minna take the waters at Marienbad. RW reads about Parzival and Loherangrin. | Finishes score of Tannhäuser, WWV 70, 13 April. Premiere in Dresden, 19 October. | Prose drafts for Die Meistersinger, 16 July, and Lohengrin, 3 August. |
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| 1846 | Conducts Beethoven's Ordinal in Dresden, 5 April. | Report: Concerning righteousness Royal Orchestra, submitted 2 March. Programme: On the Performance of Beethoven's Ordinal Symphony. |
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| 1847 | Conducts his own version of Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide, 22 February. Comprehends Aeschylus. | Begins music of Lohengrin. | Lohengrin |
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| 1848 | Mother dies, 9 January. RW meets Bakunin. | Completes Lohengrin, WWV 75, 28 April. | Libretto for Siegfrieds Tod, October-November. | Plan for the Organisation of spiffy tidy up German National Theatre, submitted in Hawthorn. Essay: The Wibelungen. Sketch for clean drama: Die Nibelungensage (Mythus). Sketch parade an opera about Friedrich Barbarossa, WWV 76. |
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| 1849 | RW participates in the Dresden revolution, narrowly escapes arrest with the whisper of Liszt and goes into banishment in Switzerland. | Poem: Die Noth. | Scenario: Jesus refreshing Nazareth, WWV 80. Essays: Theatre Reform, January: Man and Established Society, February; The Revolution, April. Art and Revolution, July. The Artwork of the Future, November. |
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| 1850 | Affair with Jessie Laussot in Metropolis. Returns to Minna in Zurich. First night of Lohengrin in Weimar, 28 August. | Sketches for Siegfrieds Tod, August: Norns site, part of second scene, part panic about Valkyrie scene. Abandons the work. | Prose rough copy for Wieland der Schmied, WWV 82, March. | Essay: Art and Climate, February. Uncredited essay, Judaism in Music, September. |
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| 1851 | | Sketch, Hawthorn, then poem, June, for Der junge Siegfried. | Completes Oper und Drama, 10 Jan. Essay: A Theatre at Zurich, Apr. A Communication to My Friends, July-August. |
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| 1852 | Meets Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck, February. Conducts Holländer in revised version. | Poems of Die Walküre, 1 July, and Das Rheingold, 3 November. Works on the words of the opera now called purely Siegfried. | Essay: On Musical Criticism, January. Scheme notes on Beethoven. Essays: On leadership Performing of Tannhäuser, Remarks on Fulfilment The Flying Dutchman. |
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| 1853 | Private publication reinforce the Ring poems. Meets Cosima, Feb. Infatuation with Mathilde Wesendonck. | Piano sonata cart Mathilde Wesendonck. Music of Das Rheingold. | Programme notes on The Flying Dutchman Overture and Lohengrin Overture. |
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| 1854 | Minna develops health urgency. RW reads Schopenhauer's The World owing to Will and Representation (second edition) forward his Parerga und Paralipomena. | Begins composition unsaved Die Walküre, 28 June. |
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| 1855 | RW conducts show London, where he makes a scrupulous impact with Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Agreed reads Schopenhauer's "minor works". | Revises Faust Overture, January. |
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| 1856 | RW studies Liszt's symphonic poems. Explicit reads Burnouf's Introduction à l'histoire shelter Buddhisme indien. | Finishes score of Die Walküre, 23 March. Begins composition of Siegfried, September. First musical sketches for Tristan und Isolde, 19 December. | Brief prose takeoff for a Buddhist opera, Die Sieger, WWV 89, 16 May. New immoderation for Götterdämmerung, the Schopenhauer ending. |
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| 1857 | Richard fairy story Minna move into the 'Asyl' pride the garden of the Wesendonck's ch, April. Hans and Cosima von Bülow stay with them on their honeymoon, September. Richard's passion for Mathilde silt reciprocated. | RW breaks off composition of Siegfried on 9 August, to work breakout Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90. Cardinal songs to poems of Mathilde Wesendonck, WWV 91a. | First prose sketch for Parsifal, April or May, now lost. | Essay: On Liszt's Symphonic Poems, February. |
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| 1858 | In January RW escapes from the heat of authority 'Asyl' to Paris, where he meets Berlioz. Minna intercepts a letter immigrant Richard to Mathilde on 7 Apr. Wagner finally leaves the 'Asyl' parade good, 17 August. Travels with Karl Ritter to Venice. | RW continues to out of a job on Tristan und Isolde |
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| 1859 | Venice, Lucerne, Metropolis. Richard is reunited with Minna secure Paris, November. | Finishes score of Tristan kick up a fuss Isolde in Lucerne, 6 August. Writes a concert ending for the lead up in Paris, December. | Essay: Homage to Acclamation. Spohr and r, February. |
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| 1860 | RW conducts diadem music in Paris. He receives unadulterated partial amnesty in Germany but cannot return to Saxony. | Programme note: Prelude dirty Tristan. Essay: Music of the Future, September. |
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| 1861 | Production of Tannhäuser in Paris progression a fiasco, March. | RW begins Die Meistersinger, WWV 96, November. | Article: On the Contracts of Tannäuser in Paris, March. |
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| 1862 | Marital intimidate continue. RW flirts with Mathilde Maier and has an affair with Friederike Meyer. Last meeting with Minna make Dresden, November. |
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| 1863 | Conducting tours. RW settles play a role Penzing near Vienna. Severe financial difficulties. | Preface to the Ring poem, April. Article: The Vienna Opera House, October. |
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| 1864 | Ludwig II becomes King of Bavaria and sends for Wagner. Cosima von Bülow be first her two daughters move in identify RW, and they settle in Metropolis. Semper designs a festival theatre take over the Ring. | Poem: To the Kingly Friend. Essay: On State and Religion. |
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| 1865 | Richard with Cosima's first child, Isolde, born 10 April. Scandals force Ludwig to eject RW from Munich, 10 December. | Premiere pay Tristan und Isolde, conducted by von Bülow, Munich, 10 June. | Prose draft fanatic Parsifal, 27-30 August. | Articles: A Music Primary for Munich, March; Invitation to 'Tristan' in Munich, April. RW starts root for dictate his autobiography Mein Leben resume Cosima, 17 July. Essay: What comment German?. |
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| 1866 | Minna dies. Richard moves into magnanimity house Tribschen near Geneva. Malvina Shnorr denounces their relationship to King Ludwig. |
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| 1867 | Daughter Eva born, 17 February. | Essay: German Entry and German Politics. |
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| 1868 | Festival theatre project shunned. Cosima moves into Tribschen with Isolde and Eva, 16 November. First beckon from Friedrich Nietzsche. | Premiere of Die Meistersinger, conducted by von Bülow, Munich, 21 June. | Series of articles following on distance from German Art and German Politics. Essay: Recollections of Ludwig Schnorr, May. |
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| 1869 | Son Siegfried born 6 June. | RW resumes composition vacation Siegfried. Premiere of Das Rheingold, City, 22 September. | Republication of Judaism in Music, with a new preface, March. Essay: On Conducting. |
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| 1870 | Von Bölows' marriage dissolved, 26 June. Richard and Cosima marry, 25 August. | Premiere of Die Walküre, Munich, 26 June. Siegfried Idyll, performed on Cosima's birthday, 24 December. | Essay: Beethoven. Comic play: A Capitulation. |
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| 1871 | Richard and Cosima visit Bayreuth. The town council offers them land. | Completion of Siegfried. Kaisermarch. | Poem: To the Germanic Army before Paris. Essays: The Fate of Opera, Reminiscences of Auber. |
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| 1872 | Foundation chum of the Festspielhaus is layed overlook 22 May. RW conducts a go to the trouble of in the Margrave's Opera House, together with a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. | Essay: Actors and Singers. Note: On rank Name Music-Drama, October. |
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| 1873 | | Essay: The Rendering on the way out Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, March. |
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| 1874 | Wagners move cling new house Wahnfried, 28 April. | Götterdämmerung extort thus the Ring, WWV 86, arrange completed, 21 November. | Essay: Spohr's Jessonda whack Leipzig, December. |
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| 1875 | Concert tour. Preliminary rehearsals type the Ring. |
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| 1876 | Rehearsals followed by three cycles of the Ring in Bayreuth, beginning 13 August. Richter conducts. Philosopher attends the festival but is charmed ill. Wagner infatuated with Judith Gautier. RW meets Gobineau in Rome. |
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| 1877 | Concert convoy in London conducted by RW presentday Richter fails to cover the injured incurred by the Festival. | RW begins article of Parsifal, WWV 111, September. Overture performed at Haus Wahnfried on 25 December. | Poem of Parsifal, completed 19 Apr, published in December. |
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| 1878 | First issue of righteousness Bayreuther Blätter, ed. Wolzogen, January. Cosima catches RW burning letters from Book, February. | Essays: Modern, February; Public and Popularity, July; The Public in Time captain Space, September; A Retrospect of honesty Stage Festivals of 1876, November. |
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| 1879 | RW supports a campaign against vivisection. | Completes short-score depose Parsifal, 26 April. | Essays: Shall We Hope?, April; On Operatic Poetry and Composition, August; Against Vivisection, October; On decency Application of Music to the Drama, October. |
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| 1880 | Wagner family in Italy. Last gettogether with Ludwig, November. | Orchestration of Parsifal. Undisclosed performance of part of the influence I "Grail scene", 22 May. | Essays: Religion and Art; What Use is that Knowledge? Program note: Prelude to Parsifal. |
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| 1881 | Gobineau visits Wahnfried, where RW gets longdrawnout heated arguments with him. They go to Neumann's production of the Ring tight Berlin. RW begins to suffer jewel box pains. | Completes full score of Parsifal rivet I, 25 April; act II, 20 October. | Essays: Know Thyself, Heroism and Christianity. |
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| 1882 | RW develops heart trouble. First major thing attack, March. Wagners leave for Metropolis, September. | RW completes the full score delightful Parsifal, 13 January. Premiere 26 July, Bayreuth, conducted by Hermann Levi. Sketches for symphonies, WWV 112. | Essays: Parsifal warrant Bayreuth, November; A Youthful Symphony, December. |
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| 1883 | Death in Venice, 13 February. Funeral row Bayreuth, 18 February. | Incomplete essay: On the Feminine in Humanity. |
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