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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Wagner and His World

Composer of the Week: Wagner and His World: Episode 5: Wagner, Strauss, Bruckner and Wolf

Wagner and His World

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Episode 5: Wagner, Strauss, Bruckner and Wolf

Wagner, Strauss, Bruckner and Wolf

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Wagner and His World, Wagner, Strauss, Bruckner and Wolf

Donald Macleod explores Wagner's influence on Bruckner, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf.

Donald Macleod explores Wagner's influence on the next musical generation: Bruckner, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf.

Donald Macleod ends this week exploring the musical connections between Wagner and his contemporaries with excerpts from his final great music-drama, Parsifal. He examines the colossal effect it would go on to have on a younger generation of composers, including Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf.

We also look at the famous, and boozy, meeting between Wagner and perhaps his most devoted musical admirer, the Austrian Anton Bruckner, whose Third Symphony was dedicated to Wagner.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores Wagner's important musical connections and relationships

Donald Macleod explores the connections and relationships that helped establish Wagner as the most revolutionary musical thinker of the 19th century

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