Wagner's Die Walküre premieres
1870 · Work
The second Ring opera, with its 'Ride of the Valkyries', is staged in Munich on Ludwig II's orders, against Wagner's wishes.
On these timelines: Classical Music, Master, Arts and Thoughts, Germany
More from Classical Music
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770)
- Handel's Messiah (1742)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Death of Mozart (1791)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
Around 1870
- American Civil War (1861)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- German unification (1871)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)