Richard - The foremost composer of German opera during the Romantic period. (Lesson 28) HEAR IT
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            German composer of operas and inventor of the music drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883) 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            the music of Wagner; "they say that Hitler listened only to Wagner"