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The Flying Dutchman
opera by Wagner
Also known as: “Der fliegende Holländer”
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basis on legend
- In Flying Dutchman
…the basis of the opera Der fliegende Holländer (1843) by the German composer Richard Wagner.
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development in operatic style
- In opera: Wagner
…with Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), he began to develop a novel method of operatic construction using leitmotifs—brief melodic and other motifs symbolizing situations, characters, or abstract ideas—as materials for spinning a more or less continuous web of music in which the voice was only one strand. Already,…
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discussed in biography
- In Richard Wagner: Early life
…opera, Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), based on the legend about a ship’s captain condemned to sail forever.
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