​The Wagner Files HD App

More Classical Composers and Orchestra Apps this week as well as Jazz Apps!

​The Wagner Files HD (http://www.gebrueder-beetz.de/en/productions/the-wagner-files-app) Explores storytelling with animations, videos, historical letters, music scores, and photographs; the story of Wagner’s life is told from Hans von Bülow’s point of view starting with the premiere of Rienzi in 1848 until Wagner’s death in Venice in 1883; forty-one page graphic novel illustrated by Flavia Scuderi; 240 animated images; more than sixty minutes of Wagner’s music; twenty-three interactive points that provide access to historical documents such as letters, photographs, or scores; four modes include Graphic Novel Mode, Animation Mode, Animation Mode with Audio Version, and Auto-Play Mode with Audio Version; music visualization of the overture of The Flying Dutchman by Stephen Malinowski; photographs of the most important persons in Wagner’s life including Cosima Wagner, Franz Liszt, King Ludwig II, and Hermann Levi; hand-written historical letters and original scores; rare gramophone records of Wagner’s operas from the 1920s and 1930s; interviews with Wagner experts Eva Rieger, Oliver Hilmes, Simone Young, Katharina Wagner, and others; interactive map with thirty-three stages and background information; trailer of the film The Wagner Files; (iOS 5.0 or later).