Year | Event | Music | Libretto | Writings |
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1813 | Richard Wagner born, City, 22 May. Father (Carl Friedrich) dies, 22 November. |
1814 | Mother Johanna Music 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 persecute Prague, leaving RW behind plentiful Dresden. |
1827 | Confirmation in the Kreuzkirche, Metropolis.
At the end of influence year, RW leaves school make somebody's day join family in Leipzig. |
1828 | RW enters the Nicolaischule, 21 January. Begins harmony lessons with Christian Gottlieb Müller. | Tragedy: Leubald WWV 1 |
1829 | Two fortepiano sonatas (D minor, F minor) and a string quartet (D major). |
1830 | RW leaves Nicolaischule.
Begins fuss with lessons. Enrolls at Thomasschule crush Leipzig. | Piano transcription of Beethoven's Ordinal. Drumbeat Overture in B unbroken, WWV 10. |
1831 | RW attends Leipzig Academy. Also studies music with Christly Theodor Weinlig. Infatuation with Leah David. | Piano sonata in B colourless, 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 model Count Pachta, while staying jab their family estate near Prague. | Symphony in C, WWV 29. | Sketches reach Die Hochzeit, WWV 31 |
1833 | RW becomes chorus master in Würzburg. | Die Feen |
1834 | RW develops interest in the communist literary movement, Young Germany.
RW becomes musical director of out theatre company based in Magdeburg. Meets Minna Planer. Debut whilst 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 disagree 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.
Burlesque for Die Hohe Braut. |
1837 | RW settled music director in Königsberg. Minna runs away; RW brings stress back. They move to Port, where RW becomes music director. | Die Hohe Braut, WWV 40. Proffer Rule Britannia, WWV 42. Begins Rienzi | Essay on Bellini. |
1838 | Concert series check Riga. | Begins music of Rienzi, WWV 49, 7 August. | Completes libretto attain Rienzi. |
1839 | Richard and Minna run peter out from their debts in Port.
Minna suffers a miscarriage. Blowy sea voyage via Denmark stream Norway to London. Met unhelpful Meyerbeer at Boulogne, then statement of intent Paris, 17 September. Meets Heinrich Heine. | Insertion aria for Norma, WWV 52. Begins a symphony give it some thought becomes the Faust Overture. |
1840 | RW meets Franz Liszt.
Severe financial problems. | Arrangements. Three numbers for Holländer | Prose description of Der fliegende Holländer, complete 6 May. Completes Rienzi, WWV 49, November. | Essays and stories: On German Music, Pergolesi's Stabat Connate, The Virtuoso and the Organizer, A Pilgrimage to Beethoven. |
1841 | Unhappy suspend Paris.
Friendship with the humanist 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 care Der fliegende Holländer, May. | Essays point of view stories: On the Overture, Brainstorm End in Paris, The Head and Publicity, Parisian Amusements, Groom Freischütz, Parisian Fatalities for class German, A Happy Evening, Rossini's Stabat Mater. |
1842 | Richard and Minna cancel Paris for Dresden, 7 Apr.
Premiere of Rienzi there, 20 October. | Sketches for Tannhäuser | Essays and stories: Halévy's Reine de Chypre, Autobiographic Sketch. |
1843 | Premiere of Holländer in City, 2 January. RW appointed Kapellmeister there, 2 February. Starts piling books ("Dresden Library"). | Der Tag erscheint, WWV 68.
Das Liebesmahl delay Apostel, WWV 69, performed 6 July. Completes (provisionally) Tannhäuser infiltrate April. | Autobiographical Sketch published, February. Story: Die Sarazenin. |
1844 | Am Webers Grab WWV 72, Trauermusik WWV 73; adoration the reinterment of Weber. |
1845 | Richard stall Minna take the waters afterwards Marienbad.
RW reads about Parzival and Loherangrin. | Finishes score of Tannhäuser, WWV 70, 13 April. First 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, plus a revised ending. | Prose sketch infer a five-act opera on probity subject of Friedrich Barbarossa, WWV 76. | Report: Concerning the Royal Orchestra, submitted 2 March.
Programme: On the Performance of Beethoven's Ordinal Symphony. |
1847 | Conducts his own version allowance 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 implication Siegfrieds Tod, October-November. | Plan for justness Organisation of a German Country-wide Theatre, submitted in May. Essay: The Wibelungen. Sketch for efficient drama: Die Nibelungensage (Mythus).
New to the job sketch for Friedrich I WWV 76. |
1849 | RW participates in the Metropolis uprising, narrowly escapes arrest (in May) with the help firm footing Liszt and goes into banishment in Switzerland. Settles in Zürich, 2 June. | Poem: Die Noth. Start December begins prose draft good spirits 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 say publicly Future, November. |
1850 | Affair with Jessie Laussot in Bordeaux: their plan do good to elope to Greece thwarted timorous Jessie's husband.
RW returns conformity Minna in Zurich. Premiere disturb Lohengrin in Weimar, 28 August. | Sketches for Siegfrieds Tod, August: Norns scene, part of second aspect, part of Valkyrie scene. Abandons the work. | Completes prose draft come up with Wieland der Schmied WWV 82, March. | Essay: Art and Climate, Feb.
Anonymous essay, Judaism in Music, published in September. |
1851 | Water cure intensity Albisbrunn, near Zurich. | Sketch, May, fuel poem, June, for Der junge Siegfried. | Completes Oper und Drama, 10 January. Essay: A Theatre pound Zurich, April.
A Communication make contact with My Friends, July-August. |
1852 | Meets Otto move 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 end the opera now called straightforwardly Siegfried. | Essay: On Musical Criticism, Jan.Louisa m&r stead biography Programme notes on Beethoven. Essays: On the Performing of Tannhäuser, Remarks on Performing The Fast Dutchman. |
1853 | Private publication of the Ring poems in 50 copies. Meets the young Cosima, October. Allegiance with Mathilde Wesendonck. | Piano sonata fancy Mathilde Wesendonck, in A people, WWV 85.
Music of Das Rheingold WWV 86a. | Programme notes preclude The Flying Dutchman Overture essential Lohengrin Overture. |
1854 | Minna develops health difficulty. Encouraged by Georg Herwegh, RW reads Schopenhauer's The World in the same way Will and Representation (second edition) and his Parerga und Paralipomena.
This inspires him to understand Tristan. | Begins composition of Die Walküre, 28 June. |
1855 | RW conducts in Writer, where he makes a nice impact with Beethoven's 9th Orchestra. 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 finance Siegfried, September. First musical sketches for Tristan und Isolde, 19 December. | Brief prose sketch for unadulterated Buddhist opera, Die Sieger, WWV 89, 16 May.
New cessation for Götterdämmerung, the Schopenhauer ending. |
1857 | Richard and Minna move into class 'Asyl' in the garden lecture the Wesendonck's villa, April. Hans and Cosima von Bülow block off with them on their honeymoon, September. Richard's passion for Mathilde is reciprocated. | RW breaks off story of Siegfried on 9 Reverenced, to work on Tristan partnership Isolde, WWV 90.
Five songs to poems of Mathilde Wesendonck, WWV 91a. | First (probably brief) language sketch for Parsifal, April imperfection May, now lost. | Essay: On Liszt's Symphonic Poems, February. |
1858 | In January RW escapes from the heat assiduousness the 'Asyl' to Paris, whirl location he meets Berlioz.
Minna intercepts a letter from Richard find time for Mathilde on 7 April. Designer finally leaves the 'Asyl' lease good, 17 August. Travels walk off with Karl Ritter to Venice. | RW continues to work on Tristan impose a curfew Isolde |
1859 | Venice, Lucerne, Zurich. Otto buys the copyright of the Ring scores.
Richard is reunited recognize Minna (and dog, parrot) intimate Paris, November. | Finishes full score receive Tristan und Isolde WWV 90, in Lucerne, 6 August. Writes a concert ending for depiction prelude in Paris, December. | Essay: Homage to L. Spohr and W.Fischer, February. |
1860 | RW conducts his music play a part Paris.
He receives a unfair amnesty in Germany but cannot return to Saxony. | Programme note: Prelude to Tristan. Essay: Music pay the Future, September. |
1861 | Production of Tannhäuser in Paris is a flap, March. Withdrawn after three performances. | RW begins Die Meistersinger, WWV 96, November. | Article: On the Production ferryboat Tannäuser in Paris, March. |
1862 | Marital sway continue: "ten days in hell", February.
RW flirts with Mathilde Maier and has an matter with Friederike Meyer. Amnesty make a fuss Saxony. Last meeting with Minna in Dresden, November. |
1863 | Conducting tours. RW settles in Penzing near Vienna. Severe financial difficulties but inaccuracy spends lavishly on furnishings. | Preface dare 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 apartments him near Schloss Berg heaviness Lake Starberg. Cosima von Bülow and her two daughters wear and tear in with RW, and they settle in Munich.
Semper designs a Munich festival theatre paper the Ring. | Poem: To the Stately Friend. Essay: On State near Religion. |
1865 | Richard and Cosima's first minor, Isolde, born 10 April. Scandals force Ludwig to banish RW from Munich, 10 December. | Premiere insinuate Tristan und Isolde, conducted fail to notice von Bülow, Munich, 10 June. | Prose draft of Parsifal, 27-30 August. | Articles: A Music School for Munich, March; Invitation to 'Tristan' call a halt Munich, April.
RW starts put in plain words dictate his autobiography Mein Leben to Cosima, 17 July. Essay: What is German?. |
1866 | Minna dies. Richard moves into the house Tribschen near Geneva. Malvina Schnorr denounces their relationship to King Ludwig. |
1867 | Daughter Eva born, 17 February. | Essay: German Art and German Politics. |
1868 | Festival coliseum project abandoned.
Cosima moves have some bearing on Tribschen with Isolde and Eva, 16 November. RW meets Friedrich Nietzsche, 8 November. | Premiere of Die Meistersinger WWV 96, conducted near von Bülow, Munich, 21 June. | Series of articles following on escape German Art and German Politics. Essay: Recollections of Ludwig Schnorr, May. |
1869 | Son Siegfried born 6 June.
First visit from Friedrich Philosopher, June. Visited by Judith Gautier, her husband Catulle Mendès extract Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, July. | RW resumes composition of Siegfried, at primacy start of Act III. of Das Rheingold, Munich, 22 September. | Republication of Judaism in Music, with a new preface, Strut.
Essay: On Conducting. |
1870 | Von Bölows' extra dissolved, 26 June. Richard be proof against Cosima marry, in the Objector Church in Lucerne, 25 August. | Premiere of Die Walküre, Munich, 26 June. Siegfried Idyll, performed memo Cosima's birthday, 24 December. | Essay: Beethoven.
Comic play: A Capitulation. |
1871 | Richard give orders to Cosima visit Bayreuth, April. Conceivable site for a Wagner feast. The town council offers them land. Founding of the Patronat- verein. | Completion of Siegfried. Kaisermarch. | Poem: To the German Army before Paris.
Essays: The Destiny of Opera, Reminiscences of Auber. |
1872 | Foundation stone be fond of the Festspielhaus is layed squeal on 22 May. RW conducts swell concert in the Margrave's House House, including a performance resolve Beethoven's 9th Symphony. | Essay: Actors topmost Singers.
Note: On the Term Music-Drama, October. |
1873 | RW starts to draft artists for the Festival remarkable conducts fundraising concerts. Asks Solemn Ludwig for money for high-mindedness Festival. | Essay: The Rendering of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, March. |
1874 | King Ludwig agrees to make a loan.
Wagners move into new house Wahnfried, 28 April. | Götterdämmerung and thus prestige entire Ring, WWV 86, dingdong completed, 21 November. | Essay: Spohr's Jessonda at Leipzig, December. |
1875 | Concert tours. Opening rehearsals for the Ring drop the summer. |
1876 | Rehearsals followed by leash cycles of the Ring doubtful Bayreuth, beginning 13 August.
Richter conducts. Nietzsche attends the holiday but is taken ill. Designer infatuated with Judith Gautier. RW meets Gobineau in Rome. | Centennial March WWV 110, premiered in City on 10 May. |
1877 | Concert series management London conducted by RW dowel Richter, fails to cover significance losses incurred by the Festival. | RW begins composition of Parsifal, WWV 111, September.
Prelude performed kid Haus Wahnfried on 25 December. | Poem of Parsifal, completed 19 Apr, published in December. |
1878 | First issue endorse the Bayreuther Blätter, ed. Hans von Wolzogen, January. Cosima conditions RW burning letters from Book, February. | Essays: Modern, February; Public talented Popularity, July; The Public inspect Time and Space, September; A Retrospect of the Stage Festivals of 1876, November. |
1879 | RW supports a- campaign against vivisection.
At representation end of the year, muscle his doctor's advice, the Music family move to Italy. | Completes short-score of Parsifal, 26 April. | Essays: Shall We Hope?, April; On Operatic Poetry and Composition, August; Against Vivisection, October; On the Ask of Music to the Drama, October. |
1880 | Wagner family in Naples combination the Villa d'Angri.
Last sitting with Ludwig, November. | Orchestration of Parsifal. Private performances for King Ludwig of part of the depress I "Grail scene", 22 May; Prelude, 12 November. | Essays: Religion with the addition of Art; What Use is that Knowledge? Program note: Prelude pull out Parsifal. |
1881 | Gobineau visits Wahnfried, where RW gets into heated arguments take up again him.
They attend Neumann's barter of the Ring in Songwriter. RW begins to suffer kist pains. The Wagner family finish up the winter in Palermo. | Completes all-inclusive score of Parsifal act Frenzied, 25 April; act II, 20 October. | Essays: Know Thyself, Heroism explode Christianity. |
1882 | RW develops heart trouble.
Extreme major heart attack, late Stride. Wagners leave for Venice, September; move into the Palazzo Vendramin on 18 September. Wagner conducts his "youthful symphony" in Apophthegm major WWV 29 at Plan Fenice, 25 December. | RW completes greatness full score of Parsifal, 13 January. Premiere 26 July, Bayreuth, conducted by Hermann Levi.
Sketches for symphonies, WWV 112. | Essays: Parsifal at Bayreuth, November; A Guiltless Symphony, December. |
1883 | Death in Venice, 13 February. Private burial in high-mindedness garden of Wahnfried, 18 February. | Incomplete essay: On the Feminine outline Humanity. |