what type of music did richard wagner play?
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 Apart from his operas , Wagner composed relatively few pieces of music . These include a symphony in C major ( written at the age of 19 ) , the Faust Overture ( the only completed part of an intended symphony on the subject ) , some overtures , and choral and piano pieces . His most commonly performed work that is not an extract from an opera is the Siegfried Idyll for chamber orchestra , which has several motifs in common with the Ring cycle . The Wesendonck Lieder are also often performed , either in the original piano version , or with orchestral accompaniment . More rarely performed are the American Centennial March ( 1876 ) , and Das Liebesmahl der Apostel ( The Love Feast of the Apostles ) , a piece for male choruses and orchestra composed in 1843 for the city of Dresden . 

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 Wagner was to spend the next twelve years in exile from Germany . He had completed Lohengrin , the last of his middle @-@ period operas , before the Dresden uprising , and now wrote desperately to his friend Franz Liszt to have it staged in his absence . Liszt conducted the premiere in Weimar in August 1850 . 

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 Wagner took 26 years from writing the first draft of a libretto in 1848 until he completed Götterdämmerung in 1874 . The Ring takes about 15 hours to perform and is the only undertaking of such size to be regularly presented on the world 's stages . 

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 Wagner first conceived the work in April 1857 but did not finish it until twenty @-@ five years later . It was Wagner 's last completed opera and in composing it he took advantage of the particular acoustics of his Bayreuth Festspielhaus . Parsifal was first produced at the second Bayreuth Festival in 1882 . The Bayreuth Festival maintained a monopoly on Parsifal productions until 1903 , when the opera was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York . 

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 Wagner inspired great devotion . For a long period , many composers were inclined to align themselves with or against Wagner 's music . Anton Bruckner and Hugo Wolf were greatly indebted to him , as were César Franck , Henri Duparc , Ernest Chausson , Jules Massenet , Richard Strauss , Alexander von Zemlinsky , Hans Pfitzner and numerous others . Gustav Mahler was devoted to Wagner and his music ; aged 15 , he sought him out on his 1875 visit to Vienna , became a renowned Wagner conductor , and his compositions are seen by Richard Taruskin as extending Wagner 's " maximalization " of " the temporal and the sonorous " in music to the world of the symphony . The harmonic revolutions of Claude Debussy and Arnold Schoenberg ( both of whose oeuvres contain examples of tonal and atonal modernism ) have often been traced back to Tristan and Parsifal . The Italian form of operatic realism known as verismo owed much to the Wagnerian concept of musical form . 
