what did wagner compose?
Die Feen Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen Tannhäuser Das Rheingold Götterdämmerung Tristan und Isolde Die Walküre Der Ring des Nibelungen Der fliegende Holländer Siegfried
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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 began composing the music for Das Rheingold between November 1853 and September 1854 , following it immediately with Die Walküre ( written between June 1854 and March 1856 ) . He began work on the third Ring opera , which he now called simply Siegfried , probably in September 1856 , but by June 1857 he had completed only the first two acts . He decided to put the work aside to concentrate on a new idea : Tristan und Isolde , based on the Arthurian love story Tristan and Iseult . 

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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 . 
