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Richard Wagner was a German composer, dramatist, and polemicist whose music dramas reshaped opera. The work is associated with leitmotif, continuous musical texture, chromatic harmony, large orchestras, and total theatrical conception. Major examples include Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, Parsifal, and the four-opera Ring cycle. A balanced account also considers his enormous musical influence alongside his explicit antisemitic writings and their later political reception.