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What was the inspiration for Richard Wagner's works?

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I know that you really mean which composers; however there is another answer too! Wagner was inspired by opulent living. He owed money to fellow musicians who helped him sustain a lavish lifestyle, and he could only compose if he wore silk. read more

Many of the well-known symphonic excerpts from Wagner's operas are made up of a combination of these motifs, as in Siegfried's Funeral March from Götterdämmerung, the final opera from Wagner's immense, seventeen-hour cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. read more

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