Life Of Richard Wagner

Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226924625

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Richard Wagner by Martin Geck Pdf

“[An] intriguing exploration of the composer’s life and thought as exemplified by his music. An excellent biography.” —Library Journal Best known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the development of European music is indisputable, Wagner was also quite outspoken on the politics and culture of his time. His ideas traveled beyond musical circles into philosophy, literature, theater staging, and the visual arts. To befit such a dynamic figure, acclaimed biographer Martin Geck offers here a Wagner biography unlike any other, one that strikes a unique balance between the technical musical aspects of Wagner’s compositions and his overarching understanding of aesthetics. A landmark study of one of music’s most important figures “People who would like to know more about Wagner, and people who have loved his music for years . . . will find a great deal in this book to enjoy and to admire.” —Tablet “Geck describes a Wagner who is grounded, focused and even cautious, a savvy realist and ironist rather than a flamboyant, flailing ideologue . . . Suffused with his readings of contemporary productions of the operas, Geck’s musical analyses are succinct and superb” —New York Times “As an editor of Wagner’s Complete Works, Geck brings a deep familiarity with the composer to his task.” —Weekly Standard “A thoroughly approachable yet consistently provocative study.” —Thomas S. Grey, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Wagner

Author : Martin Gregor-Dellin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007940573

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Richard Wagner, His Life, His Work, His Century by Martin Gregor-Dellin Pdf

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521359007

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Richard Wagner: My Life by Richard Wagner Pdf

A reprint of the first English paperback edition of Richard Wagner's autobiography.

Author : Adolphe Jullien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015007940722

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Richard Wagner by Adolphe Jullien Pdf

Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
ISBN : UOM:39015007940995

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The life of Richard Wagner by Ernest Newman Pdf

Author : Ronald Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042328489

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Richard Wagner by Ronald Taylor Pdf

"Ronald Taylor has set out to provide in a single volume a substantial all-round life-and-work to place alongside the many specialist and partial studies of Wagner. He essays to cover all main aspects of Wagner within a coherent biographical framework, basing his account on primary sources such as Wagner's autobiographical writings and letters, the reminiscences of Liszt, Nietzsche and other friends and associates, and the complete diary of Cosima, first published in 1977. The restless existence that Wagner led from his schooldays to the end of his life, his revolutionary activity, his love affairs, his pursuit of luxury and his perpetual debts, his extraordinary self-centredness and manipulation of others, the famous men and women around him, the heaven-sent patronage of the lonely and eccentric arch-romantic King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the building of his personal temple, the Festival Theatre in Bayreuth--this is the stuff of absorbing biography. And there can be scarcely any other composer whose life was so bound up with the events of his time, and so compellingly illustrative of them, as Wagner's. The 1830 Revolution in France and the European revolutions of 1848 and 1849, the heady radical and hedonistic notions of the Young German movement, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, the urge towards German political unification--these played crucial parts in moulding his mind. Ronald Taylor not only discusses Wagner's compositions as works of art, but shows how each of them, from Die Feen to Parsifal, is grounded in its creator's intellectual and spiritual development. He considers, for example, the allegorical significance of The Ring in terms of Wagner's views on society and human relationships, the indelible mark left by the experience of being spurned by the bourgeois taste of 1830s Paris, and demonstrates how a work which contains such nationalistic elements can at the same time be one of the overwhelming achievements in European culture. The elaborate structure of ideas and theories that surrounds Wagner's music is further revealed by succinct accounts of his political, social, and musical thinking at all periods of his career as expressed in his key writings on culture and society, the role of the artist in the community, the musical scene in nineteenth-century Europe, and many other subjects. In a postscript the main lines of the controversies--musical, philosophical and psychological--that have raged over Wagner from his lifetime onwards are shown in a balanced selection of statements by prominent, and diverse, figures such as Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Debussy, Stravinsky, Thomas Mann, George Bernard Shaw, Bruno Walter, Adorno and Boulez." --Jacket.

Author : Martin Gregor-Dellin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X001367711

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Richard Wagner by Martin Gregor-Dellin Pdf

Author : Jacob Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1584652403

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The Darker Side of Genius by Jacob Katz Pdf

Richard Wagner's anti-Semitism considered in the context of his time, place, and aspirations rather than in relation to his later appropriation by the Nazis.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429944540

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Wagnerism by Alex Ross Pdf

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781465584328

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My Life (Complete) by Richard Wagner Pdf

I was born at Leipzig on the 22nd of May 1813, in a room on the second floor of the 'Red and White Lion,' and two days later was baptized at St. Thomas's Church, and christened Wilhelm Richard. My father, Friedrich Wagner, was at the time of my birth a clerk in the police service at Leipzig, and hoped to get the post of Chief Constable in that town, but he died in the October of that same year. His death was partly due to the great exertions imposed upon him by the stress of police work during the war troubles and the battle of Leipzig, and partly to the fact that he fell a victim to the nervous fever which was raging at that time. As regards his father's position in life, I learnt later that he had held a small civil appointment as toll collector at the Ranstadt Gate, but had distinguished himself from those in the same station by giving his two sons a superior education, my father, Friedrich, studying law, and the younger son, Adolph, theology. My uncle subsequently exercised no small influence on my development; we shall meet him again at a critical turning-point in the story of my youth. My father, whom I had lost so early, was, as I discovered afterwards, a great lover of poetry and literature in general, and possessed in particular an almost passionate affection for the drama, which was at that time much in vogue among the educated classes. My mother told me, among other things, that he took her to Lauchstadt for the first performance of the Braut von Messina, and that on the promenade he pointed out Schiller and Goethe to her, and reproved her warmly for never having heard of these great men. He is said to have been not altogether free from a gallant interest in actresses. My mother used to complain jokingly that she often had to keep lunch waiting for him while he was paying court to a certain famous actress of the day. When she scolded him, he vowed that he had been delayed by papers that had to be attended to, and as a proof of his assertion pointed to his fingers, which were supposed to be stained with ink, but on closer inspection were found to be quite clean. His great fondness for the theatre was further shown by his choice of the actor, Ludwig Geyer, as one of his intimate friends. Although his choice of this friend was no doubt mainly due to his love for the theatre, he at the same time introduced into his family the noblest of benefactors; for this modest artist, prompted by a warm interest in the lot of his friend's large family, so unexpectedly left destitute, devoted the remainder of his life to making strenuous efforts to maintain and educate the orphans. Even when the police official was spending his evenings at the theatre, the worthy actor generally filled his place in the family circle, and it seems had frequently to appease my mother, who, rightly or wrongly, complained of the frivolity of her husband. How deeply the homeless artist, hard pressed by life and tossed to and fro, longed to feel himself at home in a sympathetic family circle, was proved by the fact that a year after his friend's death he married his widow, and from that time forward became a most loving father to the seven children that had been left behind.

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135839529

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Richard Wagner by Michael Saffle Pdf

Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer.

Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108007702

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The Life of Richard Wagner by Ernest Newman Pdf

Newman's Life of Wagner, published between 1933 and 1947, the culmination of forty years' research, is a classic biography.

Author : Derek Watson
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007941449

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Richard Wagner by Derek Watson Pdf

Chronicles the events and people, successes and failures, of Wagner's life. Draws on primary sources from the Wagner family archives to show a man of great personal charm--and of overbearing egoism, selfishness and cruelty. His support for the revolutions of 1848 forced him into exile, but he easily won the fervent support of kings and emperors.

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545748985

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The Life and Times of Richard Wagner by Jim Whiting Pdf

Nineteenth century German composer Richard Wagner s Ring of the Nibelung consists of four separate operas. Also known as the Ring Cycle, it was the crowning point of Wagner s career. Wagner was somewhat of a late bloomer in music. His first major composition was performed when he was nearly 30, and the Ring Cycle premiered when he was 53. While Wagner was among the world s greatest composers, he was not a particularly good person. He didn t repay borrowed money, he bore grudges against people who had done favors for him, amd he was unfaithful to his first wife. However he remains fascinating and controversial today.

Author : Adolphe Jullien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015009442362

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Richard Wagner by Adolphe Jullien Pdf