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Richard Wagner's Life And Accomplishments

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Gregory Aumiller
4-24-18
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Richard Wagner Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813 in the town of Leipzig, Germany. To this day he remains one of the most influential and controversial composers. He has composed many epic operas and he composed the four part, 18 hour Ring Cycle. Richard Wagner wrote many anti-semitic pieces and was a favorite of the fascist dictator Adolf Hitler. Wagner’s music was played in the Dachau concentration camp to “re-educate” the camp prisoners. According to Biography.com “Wagner's parentage is uncertain: He is either the son of police actuary Friedrich Wagner, who died soon after Richard was born, or the son of the man he called his stepfather, the painter, actor and poet Ludwig Geyer (whom his mother married
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