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Author : John F. Runciman
Publisher : London : G. Bell
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015007941290
Author : Runciman John F
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318821959
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Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803297653
With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Author : Adolphe Jullien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044044087443
Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991-10-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691027166
In this classic guide, the foremost Wagner expert of our century discusses ten of Wagner's most beloved operas, illuminates their key themes and the myths and literary sources behind the librettos, and demonstrates how the composer's style changed from work to work. Acclaimed as the most complete and intellectually satisfying analysis of the Wagner operas, the book has met with unreserved enthusiasm from specialist and casual music lover alike. Here, available for the first time in a single paperback volume, is the perfect companion for listening to, or attending, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, Die Meistersinger, the four operas of the Ring Cycle, and Parsifal. Newman enriches his treatment of the stories, texts, and music of the operas with biographical and historical materials from the store of knowledge that he acquired while completing his numerous books on Wagner, including the magisterial Life of Richard Wagner. The text of The Wagner Operas is filled with hundreds of musical examples from the scores, and all the important leitmotifs and their interrelationships are made clear in Newman's lucid prose. "This is as fine an introduction as any ever written about a major composer's masterpieces. Newman outlines with unfailing clarity and astuteness each opera's dramatic sources, and he takes the student through the completed opera, step by step, with all manner of incidental insight along the way."--Robert Bailey, New York University
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434417312
Autobiography of the German musician famous for his operas.
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993-03-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0306805227
Wagner's operas can be counted among the most important works of art of the nineteenth century. But Wagner was a composer around whom violent artistic, political, and literary controversies raged during his lifetime. Even today, Wagner's music seems to arouse either adulation or antipathy. In The Complete Operas of Richard Wagner, as in the first four volumes of his famous series on the great opera composers, Charles Osborne first describes the composer's life at the time he wrote each opera, thus providing a biographical thread which runs through the book; follows it with a thorough examination of the libretto and its sources; and lastly tells the story of the opera, which he links to the major musical features.This book is, in effect, a musical biography of Wagner, tracing his development from his first complete opera, Die Feen, to his last, Parsifal. It serves as an invaluable guide to the often perplexing Wagner oeuvre both for the regular opera-goer and the armchair listener.
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009463079
Author : Robert W. Gutman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000128742
Ranging far beyond the bounds of conventional biography and music history, this book examines the cultural background of Wagner's art, including the nether regions of nationalism and racism. New Introduction by the Author. Index; photographs.
Author : Henry T. Finck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Composers
ISBN : MSU:31293103883306
Author : Richard Wagner,Otto Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1357053479
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Author : Gladys Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 147333098X
This vintage book contains a collection of stories based upon Wagner's operas told by Gladys Davidson. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly famous for his operas. These masterfully retold stories are highly recommended for all fans of Wagner's work and would make for worthy additions to any collection. Contents include: "The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Hollaender)," "Tannhauser," "Lohengrin," "Tristan and Isolda," "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg)," "The Nibelungs' Ring. (Der Ring der Nibelungen)," "The Rhinegold," "The Valkyrie (Der Walkuere)," et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with its original artwork and text.
Author : William James Henderson
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9781465614926
The purpose of this book is to supply Wagner lovers with a single work which shall meet all their needs. The author has told the story of Wagner's life, explained his artistic aims, given the history of each of his great works, examined its literary sources, shown how Wagner utilised them, surveyed the musical plan of each drama, and set forth the meaning and purpose of its principal ideas. The work is not intended to be critical, but is designed to be expository. It aims to help the Wagner lover to a thorough knowledge and understanding of the man and his works. The author has consulted all the leading biographies, and for guidance in the direction of absolute trustworthiness he is directly indebted to Mme. Cosima Wagner, whose suggestions have been carefully observed. He is also under a large, but not heavy, burden of obligation to Mr. Henry Edward Krehbiel, musical critic of The New York Tribune, who carefully read the manuscript of this work and pointed out its errors. The value of Mr. Krehbiel's revision and his hints cannot be over-estimated. Thanks are also due to Mr. Emil Paur, conductor of the Philharmonic Society, of New York, for certain inquiries made in Europe. The records of first performances have been prepared with great care and with no little labour. For the dates of those at most of the European cities the author is indebted to an elaborate article by E. Kastner, published in the Allgemeine Musik. Zeitung, of Berlin, for July and August, 1896. The original casts have been secured, as far as possible, from the programmes. For that of the "Flying Dutchman" at Dresden—incorrectly given in many books on Wagner—the author is indebted to Hofkapellmeister Ernst von Schuch, who obtained it from the records of the Hoftheater. The name of the singer of the Herald in the first cast of "Lohengrin," missing in all the published histories, was supplied by Hermann Wolff, of Berlin, from the records of Weimar. The casts of first performances in this country are not quite complete, simply because the journalists of twenty-five years ago did not realise their obligations to posterity. The casts were not published in full. The records have disappeared. The theatres in some cases—as in that of the Stadt—have long ago gone out of existence and nothing can be done. As far as given the casts are, the author believes, perfectly correct.
Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429944540
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 : Adolphe Jullien,Florence Percival Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 333738613X
Richard Wagner - His life and works. Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.