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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany to parents Carl Friedrich Wagner, a police clerk, and Johanna Rosine Paetz, a baker's daughter. Losing his father to typhus when he was just six months old, Wagner was raised by his mother and step-father, playwright Ludwig Geyer. Inheriting Geyer's love of the theatre, Wagner was sent to the Kreuzschule boarding school where he had piano lessons and developed his skill for playwriting. Graduating to Leipzig University, Wagner studied composition and published his first official work in 1831, Piano Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 1....
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