This composer re-orchestrated Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide and wrote his first and only symphony when he was 19.  
This composer re-orchestrated Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide and wrote his first and only symphony when he was 19.  His first opera, The Fairies, was completed that same year, though it was never performed during his lifetime. His next major work, 1836's Forbidden Love, was based on Measure for Measure, and his first major success came in 1837 with Rienzi, the overture to which is still performed as a concert piece today. Often associated with the leitmotif, this is, for 10 points, what German composer who built the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and wrote The Flying Dutchman and the operatic Ring cycle?
This composer re-orchestrated Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide and wrote his first and only symphony when he was 19.  
Wilhelm Richard {Wagner}