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===Early Years===
[[File:Wagnerbruhl.jpg|thumb|180px|Wagner's birthplace, at 3, [[Brühl (Leipzig)|the Brühl]], Leipzig|alt=A building with four main storeys with an open shop to one side of an arched entrance and garret windows in the roof. A sculpted figure of an animal is above the arch.]]
Richard Wagner was born in [[Leipzig]], at No. 3, the [[Brühl (Leipzig)|Brühl]] (''The House of the Red and White Lions''), in the [[Jewish quarter (diaspora)|Jewish quarter]], the ninth child of Carl Friedrich Wagner, who was a clerk in the Leipzig police service, and his wife Johanna Rosine (née Paetz), the daughter of a baker.<ref>Wagner (1992) 3; Newman (1976) I, 12</ref>{{#tag:ref|Of their children, two (Carl Gustave and Maria Theresia) died as infants. The others were Wagner's brothers Albert and Carl Julius, and his sisters Rosalie, Luise, Clara and Ottilie. All of these, except the goldsmith Carl Julius, were to have careers connected with the stage. Wagner also had a younger half-sister, Caecilie, born to his mother and her second husband Geyer in 1815.<ref>Millington (1992) 97</ref> See also [[Wagner family tree]].|group=n}} Wagner's father Carl died of [[typhus]] six months after Richard's birth, after which Johanna began living with Carl's friend, the actor and playwright [[Ludwig Geyer]].<ref>Newman (1976) I, 6</ref> In August 1814 Johanna and Geyer probably married—although no documentation of this has been found in the Leipzig church registers.<ref>Gutman (1990) 7 and n.</ref> She and her family moved to Geyer's residence in [[Dresden]]. Until he was fourteen, Wagner was known as Wilhelm Richard Geyer. He almost certainly thought that Geyer was his biological father.<ref>Newman (1976) I, 9</ref>
=== Early career (1833–42) ===
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