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December 12, 2013 December 12, 2013

How Richard Wagner's operas held secrets of his disabling migraines

Research: "Compulsive plague! Pain without end!" How Richard Wagner played out his Migraine in the Opera Siegfried Kiel/London, December 13, 2013. In a paper published in the Christmas edition of the British [...]

December 12, 2013 December 12, 2013

How Richard Wagner hid the secret of his migraine in the opera Siegfried

Kiel/London, December 12, 2013. Chronic migraine was the composer Richard Wagner's "main torment" of his life. Researchers at the Kiel Pain Clinic have now been able to demonstrate for the first time that his experience is reflected in his most famous works [...]