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He aimed to compose works which abandoned the usual operatic conventions of recitative and aria, blending orchestra,  voice and words into a dramatic unity.\r\n\r\nIn the later part of his career Wagner enjoyed the support of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and established his own theatre and festival at the  Bavarian town of Bayreuth. He developed the use of the Leitmotiv (leading motif) as a principle of musical unity, his dramatic musical structure  depending on the interweaving of melodies or fragments of melody associated with characters, incidents or ideas in the drama. His most famous  works which occupied him for a number of years are the four operas that form the The Ring cycle - <i>Das Rheingold</i>, <i>Die Walküre</i> (The Valkyries), <i>Siegfried</i> and <i>Götterdämmerung</i> (The Twilight of the Gods).  Other opera by Wagner include <i>Tristan und Isolde</i>, <i>Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg</i> (The  Mastersingers of Nuremberg) , and his final work,<i> Parsifal</i>.\n\nFranz Hanfstaengl (1804-1877) was a German lithographer, photographer and publisher who opened a photographic studio in Munich, becoming a popular society and court photographer. 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