Wagner
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Born / died
1813-1883
Movement
Romantic
Location
Born in Leipzig
Friends / contemporaries
Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms +3 more
Born in Rennes, France, Vanessa Wagner began playing the piano at the age of seven.Spotify
A prodigious talent, she earned First Prize at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at just 17. In 1999, she was named “Instrumental Solo Revelation” at the Victoires de la Musique Classique, marking the beginning of an international career distinguished by artistic curiosity.Spotify
Since then, Wagner has performed on prestigious stages worldwide. Her rich discography showcases both the diversity of her repertoire and the uniqueness of her musical vision. Wagner’s career reflects a personality as bold as it is inquisitive.Spotify
Effortlessly bridging the classical canon with contemporary compositions, she frequently ventures into interdisciplinary collaborations involving electronic music, dance, and visual arts. A pioneer in championing new repertoires, Wagner has spent several years exploring the minimalist canon. For the InFiné label, she has recorded four albums dedicated to major minimalist figures—John Adams, Meredith Monk, Brian Eno, and Ryūichi Sakamoto—as well as to emerging composers such as Caroline Shaw, Bryce Dessner, and Nico Muhly.Spotify
Alongside countless hours performing these works live, Wagner felt compelled by an urgent artistic calling: to fully record one of the seminal contemporary landmarks bridging the musical legacies of the 20th and 21st centuries—the twenty piano Études by Philip Glass.Spotify
role: composer · 90%era: Romanticmovement: Romantic1813–1883
Movement
Romantic · Wikipedia
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era. It is closely related to the broader concept of Romanticism—the intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from about 1798 until 1837.
How this movement sounds
rubatochromatic harmonybig climaxesricher timbrelong lyrical linesnarrative feel
Romantic listening cues: heightened emotion, longer lyrical melodies, and more freedom with rubato (flexible timing) in performance.
Harmony is often more chromatic, with colorful chords and side-steps that create tension and release over longer spans. You may hear more delayed resolutions and more 'yearning' harmonic motion.
Dynamics and texture often expand: thicker sonorities, bigger climaxes, and a strong sense of narrative or character (even in purely instrumental music).
In piano music, listen for the use of pedaling and resonance to create a halo around harmony; in orchestral music, listen for richer timbre and denser voicing (inner lines matter).
A useful trick: follow the bass line. In Romantic music it often shapes the drama, pulling the harmony through longer arcs rather than short phrase punctuation.
How Wagner sounds
rubatorich harmonylong melodybig dynamicscoloristic pedal
Romantic music tends to foreground emotion and color: long singing melodies, flexible tempo (rubato), and harmony that stretches and sighs.
You often hear thicker textures, wider dynamic range, and a more "orchestral" use of the piano with deep bass and resonant pedaling.
Look for heightened contrast and personal voice: the same musical gesture can feel intimate one moment and heroic the next.
Wikipedia
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( VAHG-nər; German: [ˈvɪlˌhɛlm ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas.Wikipedia
Unlike most composers, Wagner wrote both the libretti and the music for all of his stage works. He first achieved recognition with works in the Romantic tradition of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but revolutionised the genre through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), which sought to unite poetic, musical, visual, and dramatic elements.Wikipedia
In this approach, the drama unfolds as a continuously sung narrative, with the music evolving organically from the text rather than alternating between arias and recitatives. Wagner outlined these ideas in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852, most fully realising them in the first half of his four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). Wagner's compositions, particularly in his later period, have complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas, or plot elements.Wikipedia
His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music;…Wikipedia
Study resources & scores
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Lecture 6. Melody: Mozart and Wagner
Yale (YouTube) · lecture · youtube, transcript
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France Musique · published 2026-05-24
Pierre Rosenberg, historien de l'art : "Quand Chardin est le peintre du silence, Poussin est le peintre du temps arrêté"
2026
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France Musique · published 2026-05-01
Fête du 1er mai en musique
2026
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Play videoTonhalle-Orchester Zurich · published 2026-04-29 · 18m
Wagner: Tristan - Vorspiel & Liebestod - the Cellists of Tonhalle Orchester Zürich
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France Musique · published 2026-04-25
France Musique est à vous du samedi 25 avril 2026
2026
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France Musique · published 2026-04-14
Hommage à José Van Dam
2026
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France Musique · published 2026-04-08
Jean-Jacques Pauvert : « C’est la première fois que j’écoute une œuvre de Wagner »
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France Musique · published 2026-04-07
Le Ring de Wagner selon Herbert von Karajan
2026
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France Musique · published 2026-03-23
Régine Crespin chante Ravel et Wagner à Radio France
2026
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Play videoYouTube · published 2026-03-12 · 2h 19m
LIVE: Wagner, Bartók, Prokofjew | Patricia Kopatchinskaja | Tito Muñoz | SWR Symphonieorchester
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Play videoYouTube · published 2026-02-20 · 52m
Vanessa Wagner & Friends : Figures of Glass - ARTE Concert
202652m
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Play videoARTE Concert · published 2026-02-19 · 52m
Vanessa Wagner & Friends : Figures of Glass - ARTE Concert
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Play videoCarnegie Hall · published 2026-02-19 · 3m
Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Concert with Gianandrea Noseda
20263m
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Play videoPhilharmonie de Paris · published 2025-11-21 · 2m
Moment musical | Vanessa Wagner interprète « Étude pour piano N°3 » de Philip Glass
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Play videoPhilharmonie de Paris · published 2025-11-21 · 5m
Moment musical | Vanessa Wagner interprète « Étude pour piano N°18 » de Philip Glass
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Play videoYouTube · published 2025-05-04 · 1h 42m
Boston Wagner Institute 2024 Finale Scenes Concert
20241h 42m
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Play videoYouTube · published 2025-04-17 · 1h 39m
Nikolai Lugansky Recital - Mendelssohn, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Wagner
20251h 39m
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Play videoYouTube · published 2025-02-11 · 1h 27m
Dmitri Alexeev - recital in Cedars Hall Wells - Handel, Brahms, Medtner, Wagner, Liszt, Chopin
20251h 27m
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Play videoCarnegie Hall · published 2024-05-16 · 3m
Berlin State Opera: Wagner’s Götterdämmerung (excerpt) | Carnegie Hall+
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Play videoCarnegie Hall · published 2024-05-16 · 1m
Berlin State Opera: Wagner’s Das Rheingold (excerpt) | Carnegie Hall+
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Play videoCarnegie Hall · published 2024-05-16 · 1m
Berlin State Opera: Wagner’s Die Walküre (excerpt) | Carnegie Hall+
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Play videoCarnegie Hall · published 2024-05-16 · 2m
Berlin State Opera: Wagner’s Siegfried (excerpt) | Carnegie Hall+
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Play videoYouTube · published 2020-05-30 · 21m
Vienna Philharmonic Harp Master Class with Anneleen Lenaerts: Wagner’s Fire Music from Die Walküre
202021m
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2020-05-18 · 2m
#BerlinPhilJapan19 · Horn player challenge: the Wagner tuba in Bruckner's Eighth
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2019-05-19 · 2m
Wagner: Götterdämmerung (final scene) / Maazel - Berliner Philharmoniker
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2018-05-19 · 2m
Wagner: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch / Dudamel - Berliner Philharmoniker
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2017-05-19 · 3m
Wagner: Walkürenritt / Levine - Berliner Philharmoniker
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Play videoYouTube · published 2016-03-16 · 1h 24m
Richard Wagner - Tristan and Isolde (2nd act), concert performance (Lucerne Festival 2004)
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2015-05-20 · 2m
Wagner: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch / Gatti · Berliner Philharmoniker
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Play videoYouTube · published 2014-06-01 · 1h 31m
Wagner Competition - Final Round (Spring 2011)
20111h 31m
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2014-05-20 · 2m
Wagner: "Tannhäuser" Overture / Nelsons · Berliner Philharmoniker
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2014-05-20 · 3m
Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal / Rattle - Berliner Philharmoniker
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2013-05-20 · 2m
Wagner: Prelude to "Lohengrin" / Rattle · Berliner Philharmoniker
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Play videoYouTube · published 2013-03-17 · 13m
Richard Wagner: Rienzi Ouverture | University Orchestra Weimar
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2012-05-20 · 3m
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer / Abbado - Berliner Philharmoniker
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2010-05-21 · 3m
Wagner: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt / Rattle - Berliner Philharmoniker
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Play videoBerlin Philharmonic · published 2009-05-21 · 3m
Wagner: Isoldes Liebestod / Rattle - Berliner Philharmoniker
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