Kevin Hal Reynolds born January 17, 1952 is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing films such as Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. QsJYr5aw/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Tristan & Isolde Free Online Movie' title='Tristan & Isolde Free Online Movie' />Richard Wagner Wikipedia. Wilhelm Richard Wagner German At the age of nine he was hugely impressed by the Gothic elements of Carl Maria von Webers opera Der Freischtz, which he saw Weber conduct. At this period Wagner entertained ambitions as a playwright. His first creative effort, listed in the Wagner Werk Verzeichnis the standard listing of Wagners works as WWV 1, was a tragedy called Leubald. Begun when he was in school in 1. Shakespeare and Goethe. Wagner was determined to set it to music, and persuaded his family to allow him music lessons. By 1. 82. 7, the family had returned to Leipzig. Wagners first lessons in harmony were taken during 1. Christian Gottlieb Mller. In January 1. 82. Beethovens 7th Symphony and then, in March, the same composers 9th Symphony both at the Gewandhaus. Beethoven became a major inspiration, and Wagner wrote a piano transcription of the 9th Symphony. He was also greatly impressed by a performance of Mozarts Requiem. Wagners early piano sonatas and his first attempts at orchestral overtures date from this period. In 1. 82. 9 he saw a performance by dramatic soprano. Wilhelmine Schrder Devrient, and she became his ideal of the fusion of drama and music in opera. In Mein Leben, Wagner wrote When I look back across my entire life I find no event to place beside this in the impression it produced on me, and claimed that the profoundly human and ecstatic performance of this incomparable artist kindled in him an almost demonic fire. In 1. 83. 1, Wagner enrolled at the Leipzig University, where he became a member of the Saxon student fraternity. He took composition lessons with the Thomaskantor. Theodor Weinlig. 1. Weinlig was so impressed with Wagners musical ability that he refused any payment for his lessons. He arranged for his pupils Piano Sonata in B flat major which was consequently dedicated to him to be published as Wagners Op. A year later, Wagner composed his Symphony in C major, a Beethovenesque work performed in Prague in 1. Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1. He then began to work on an opera, Die Hochzeit The Wedding, which he never completed. Early career and marriage 1. In 1. 83. 3, Wagners brother Albert managed to obtain for him a position as choir master at the theatre in Wrzburg. In the same year, at the age of 2. Wagner composed his first complete opera, Die Feen The Fairies. This work, which imitated the style of Weber, went unproduced until half a century later, when it was premiered in Munich shortly after the composers death in 1. Having returned to Leipzig in 1. Wagner held a brief appointment as musical director at the opera house in Magdeburg2. Das Liebesverbot The Ban on Love, based on Shakespeares Measure for Measure. This was staged at Magdeburg in 1. 1080P Hd Video Download Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F more. Wagner had fallen for one of the leading ladies at Magdeburg, the actress Christine Wilhelmine Minna Planer2. Das Liebesverbot he followed her to Knigsberg, where she helped him to get an engagement at the theatre. The two married in Tragheim Church on 2. November 1. 83. 6. In May 1. 83. 7, Minna left Wagner for another man,3. In June 1. 83. 7, Wagner moved to Riga then in the Russian Empire, where he became music director of the local opera 3. Minnas sister Amalie also a singer for the theatre, he presently resumed relations with Minna during 1. By 1. 83. 9, the couple had amassed such large debts that they fled Riga on the run from creditors. Debts would plague Wagner for most of his life. Initially they took a stormy sea passage to London,3. Wagner drew the inspiration for his opera Der fliegende Hollnder The Flying Dutchman, with a plot based on a sketch by Heinrich Heine. The Wagners settled in Paris in September 1. Wagner made a scant living by writing articles and short novelettes such as A pilgrimage to Beethoven, which sketched his growing concept of music drama, and An end in Paris, where he depicts his own miseries as a German musician in the French metropolis. He also provided arrangements of operas by other composers, largely on behalf of the Schlesinger publishing house. During this stay he completed his third and fourth operas Rienzi and Der fliegende Hollnder. Dresden 1. 84. 21. Wagner c. 1. 84. 0, by Ernest Benedikt Kietz.