Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
Opera `Rienzi` (orchestral fragments), WWV 49
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Overture
Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
(1960/11:39)
$20 for 3 years
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In the 1961 movie, "Judgment at Nuremberg", Spencer Tracy and Marlene Dietrich were discussing Richard Wagner's daughter-in-law. I noticed music playing in the background. It was from Wagner's Opera "Rienzi". I did not know the composition at that time but I thought what I was hearing to be some of the most beautiful music I had ever heard.
Wagner was Adolph Hitler's favorite composer. (Themes of his operas were often about mythical gods who represented the Germans as glorious warriors who were heroic.)
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