Richard Wagner
Nineteenth-century German composer. His music dramas such as "The Ring of the Nibelung" transformed the form of opera, and he built the Bayreuth Festival Theatre to stage his works.
The image of Vikings in horned helmets is a myth—no excavated Viking helmet has horns. It spread from the 1876 premiere of Richard Wagner's opera the Ring cycle, when designer Carl Emil Doepler added horns to the male helmets.
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