How Well Do You Know Wagner?
How Well Do You Know Wagner?
Wilhelm Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in the history of classical music, and for good reason. How well do you know him?
Wilhelm Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in the history of classical music, and for good reason. How well do you know him?
Siegfried was a central character in Wagner's Ring Cycle. How were his parents related?
True or false: Although he wasn't opposed to writing ballet intermissions as part of his longer operas when asked to do so, Wagner never wrote a full ballet.
Many of us were introduced to Wagner's opera melodies early in life thanks to the Warner Brothers cartoon short "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957), which features Elmer Fudd as Siegfried. Which of Wagner's iconic characters does Bugs Bunny himself portray?
Which of these operas is not part of Wagner's Ring Cycle?
True or false: Because of his music's later appropriation by the Nazi regime (and, perhaps in part, his own antisemitism), it is illegal to perform Wagner's operas in Israel.
Wagner's most explicitly antisemitic piece of writing was his anonymous essay "Das Judenthum in Der Musik" (1850), in which he furiously claimed that "the Jews have never produced a true poet." What inspired his rant?
Which of these quotes by Wagner is fake?
The opening fanfare to act 3 of Die Walküre, commonly referred to as "Ride of the Valkyries," is one of the most widely recognized classical melodies in the world. In which of the contexts below was it not used?
The "War of the Romantics" was a highly-publicized schism between traditional romantic composers such as Brahms, the Schumanns, and the Mendelssohns and more radical composers, chiefly represented by Wagner and this composer.
Which of these quotes about Wagner is fake?