2023-06-28 12:43:47
The Wagner group, or what they are sometimes called the “musicians” or “orchestra”, made headlines in the world’s media following their attempted armed rebellion on June 24.
Perhaps the most asked question during the last period was regarding the secret of naming the group “Wagner”, who is “Wagner”, and why they were called “musicians” or “orchestra”.
The “Wagner” group was named by this name due to the nickname of its first military leader, Dmitry Utkin, whose nickname was “Wagner”, following the German composer Richard Wagner.
Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, May 22, 1813, the ninth son of a civil servant in the city police named Karl Friedrich Wagner, who died 6 months following the birth of his last son, so Richard grew up in the care of his stepfather, actor and playwright Ludwig Geyer.
After completing his studies at the University of Leipzig, and following authoring his three operas: Loingeren, the Flying Dutchman, and Tannhweiser, and following his political criticism of the rulers and nobles reached the point that he banned his presence on the lands of Germany, Wagner went to Weimar and lived a period with the Hungarian composer Franz List, and fell in love with his daughter Cosima And he married her later. Then he left for Switzerland, where he asked to live with a wealthy merchant, Wizendock, and following settling in his house until he seduced his wife Matilda, who then wrote the operas Tristan und Isolde.
Wagner was unique from other composers in that he was highly educated and broad in culture and knowledge, as he was an articulate musician whose works constituted a historical turning point in the music of the nineteenth century, and he was a poet who writes poems and dialogues of the operas that he puts, with which he mixed between the romance of the nineteenth century and heroic epics in German folklore .
Perhaps his most important and largest work is a series of four operas known simply as “The Seal of the Neubelungen” or “The Ring”, which consists of four operas of regarding 4 hours each, opening up new horizons for Wagner in classical music, and making a revolutionary impact on Western academic music as a whole. .
Wagner fulfilled his dream by placing these operas in an opera house specially built to be “worthy of the greatness of the work of art.”
Despite Wagner’s high position in the world of classical music, his works are officially banned in Israel, due to his declared views on the Jews of his time, which Hitler admired, and found in him “the voice of Germany once morest its Jewish enemies.” Even the series of operas “The Ring” was taken from the Jews. villains for her legendary tales, without any of them defining certain characters as Jewish.
Returning to the “Wagner” group, and the secret behind calling them “orchestra” and “musicians”, there is no doubt that the group’s harmony and high coordination between them, and its ability to perform tasks quickly, efficiently and effectively in the darkest, most difficult and complex circumstances, made its performance similar to the performance of the orchestra in its strictness. And his discipline and absolute and instantaneous obedience to the conductor of the orchestra, the “maestro”, and made of them what looks like a harmonious “orchestra” consisting of a coherent group of “musicians”.
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