The complete idiot's guide to classical music (76 page)

Wagner, Richard

Wagnerian opera

Das Rheingold

Die Walkure

Die Meistersinger

Gotterdammerung

leitmotifs

librettos

Lohengrin

Melchoir, Lauritz

Nilsson, Birgit

orchestration

Parsifal

The Ring of the Niebelung

see also
dramatic opera;opera

Siegfried

Tannhauser

Tristan and Isolde

waltzes

Weber, Carl Maria von

Williams, John

Vaughan

wind quintets

women composers

woodwind instruments,
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X-Z

xylophone

Yo-Yo Ma

Yradier, Sebastian

Zajick, Dolora

Zimerman, Krystian

Zukerman, Pinchas