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| '''''Die Feen''''' (''The Fairies'') is |
'''''Die Feen''''' (''The Fairies'') is ]'s first completed ], composed entirely in ], when Wagner was 20 years old. The year before, Wagner had abandoned his first attempt at writing an opera, '']'' (''The Wedding''). However, Wagner borrowed the names of two of ''Die Feen'''s principal characters, Ada and Arindal, from his ''Die Hochzeit''. | ||
| ⚫ | ''Die Feen'' remained unperformed until shortly after the composer's death in ], when it was premiered in ]. It is rarely performed today. It is the only Wagner opera that has not been recorded for broadcast television or video. There are some audio recordings, the most available being a live ] performance conducted by ]. | ||
| Before embarking on it, he wrote a ] for a different opera before scrapping it — therefore it is technically not the composer's ''first'' operatic output. | |||
| ''Die Feen'' imitated the musical style of ]. This work by the young Wagner did not introduce the complex chains of ] and ] ] that distinguished the composer's mature works. | |||
| Being such an early ''oeuvre'', Die Feen is much more harmonically stable than Wagner's later operas, which saw him discarding tonality completely in complex ] chains of ]. | |||
| Wagner personally gave the original manuscrpt of ''Die Feen'' to King ]. The manuscript was later given as a gift to ], and perished with him in flames in the Berlin bunker in the final days of World War II. | |||
| ==Reference== | |||
| ''Die Feen'' (recording and textbook, ]), Munich: Orfeo GmbH. | |||
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Die Feen (The Fairies) is Richard Wagner's first completed opera, composed entirely in 1833, when Wagner was 20 years old. The year before, Wagner had abandoned his first attempt at writing an opera, Die Hochzeit (The Wedding). However, Wagner borrowed the names of two of Die Feen's principal characters, Ada and Arindal, from his Die Hochzeit.
Die Feen remained unperformed until shortly after the composer's death in 1883, when it was premiered in Munich. It is rarely performed today. It is the only Wagner opera that has not been recorded for broadcast television or video. There are some audio recordings, the most available being a live 1982 performance conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Die Feen imitated the musical style of Carl Maria von Weber. This work by the young Wagner did not introduce the complex chains of melody and chromatic harmony that distinguished the composer's mature works.
Wagner personally gave the original manuscrpt of Die Feen to King Ludwig II of Bavaria. The manuscript was later given as a gift to Adolf Hitler, and perished with him in flames in the Berlin bunker in the final days of World War II.
Reference
Die Feen (recording and textbook, 1984), Munich: Orfeo GmbH.
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