Where was richard wagner born

In 1933, the year of Hitler's accession to power, the fiftieth anniversary of the composer Richard Wagner’s death was celebrated at the Bayreuth festival under the theme ‘Wagner and the new Germany’. The links between the 19^th century opera composer and the 20^th century dictator existed from the Nazi Party’s beginnings, and were to be strengthened and developed throughout the years of Hitler’s reign.

Perhaps no other musician is as closely linked with Nazism as is Wagner, and no composer’s music is as tainted with the ideological associations of the Third Reich.

Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig on 22 May 1813, one of nine children in a working-class family.  Soon after his birth the family moved to Dresden, and later to Prague.  As a youth, Wagner was drawn to the theatre, and saw music as an expansion of his interest in the stage.

By the time he was ready to begin his studies, he had decided to commit himself to composition, and he entered the University of Leipzig