Wagner: Rienzi Overture

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Richard Wagner (1813–1883)

 

Opera `Rienzi` (orchestral fragments),

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Overture

 

Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

(1960/11:39)

 

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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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