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The 73 pages that link to Richard Wagner, each with the reason it gives.

• Christoph Willibald GluckRelated: Wagner treated Gluck as a precursor in the effort to subordinate musical display to drama.

• Hugo WolfRelated: Wolf revered Wagner, whose harmonic language left a strong mark on his musical development.

• Wolfram von EschenbachRelated: Wagner’s final music drama reinterprets Wolfram’s Grail story and its characters.

• Birgit NilssonRelated: Wagner wrote the roles most closely associated with Nilsson’s international reputation.

• Charles GounodCompared with: Wagner’s music drama offers a contrasting model to Gounod’s emphasis on melody and French theatrical clarity.

• Gottfried SemperRelated: Semper worked with Wagner on plans for a new theater in Dresden.

• ValhallaRelated: His Ring cycle helped popularize a dramatic, Germanic image of Valhalla.

• Carl Maria von WeberRelated: Wagner regarded Weber as a predecessor in German national opera and helped champion his legacy.

• Gottfried von StrassburgRelated: Wagner’s adaptation helped renew the legend’s influence through music drama.

• Carl DahlhausRelated: Dahlhaus treated Wagner as a pivotal figure in debates about musical drama and modernity.

• Das RheingoldRelated: He wrote the music and verse drama and devised the cycle’s theatrical conception.

• Lauritz MelchiorRelated: Melchior became especially renowned for singing Wagner’s demanding tenor roles.

• Neuschwanstein CastleRelated: Ludwig’s admiration for Wagner’s operas strongly influenced the castle’s decorative themes.

• SigurdRelated: Wagner reworked Sigurd as Siegfried in his Ring cycle.

• The World as Will and RepresentationRelated: Wagner drew on Schopenhauer’s account of music and briefly embraced his philosophy.

• Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-AdamRelated: Wagner's artistic idealism resonated with the elevated ambitions of Villiers's drama.

• Die Meistersinger von NürnbergNarrower topic: He composed the music and wrote the libretto for Die Meistersinger.

• Expressionist musicCompared with: Wagner’s expanding chromaticism helped lead toward the tonal instability later intensified by expressionists.

• Hans HotterRelated: Wagner created the roles and operas that defined Hotter’s international reputation.

• History of operaRelated: His works and Bayreuth project altered opera’s scale, style, and institutional life.

• Music of GermanyRelated: His music dramas reshaped German opera and its institutions.

• Neue MusikRelated: His increasingly unstable harmonies helped prepare the ground for atonality.

• Régine CrespinRelated: Wagner’s works supplied several of Crespin’s most prominent international roles.