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Author : George R. Fricke,James Andrew Deaville,Evan Baker
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0945193866
Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300115261
A renowned music scholar narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age in the 18th and 19th centuries by taking readers behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas. 88 illustrations.
Author : James Andrew Deaville,Evan Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 0945193866
For Richard Wagner, the summer months of 1875 and 1876 were among the most critical of his life: the months of organization and rehearsals for the first presentation of his Ring cycle of operas. Several Wagner biographers make reference to his close friend and associate, the ballet master Richard Fricke, as the one who solved the problems and provided the coolness and common sense required for dealing with artistic emergencies. Fricke's diaries of this period were printed posthumously in 1906 as Bayreuth vor dreissig Jahren, and were considered of sufficient interest and importance to warrant reprinting in 1983 as Richard Wagner auf der Probe. Translated by George Fricke, the great-grandson of Richard Fricke, Wagner in Rehearsal 1875-1876 represent an invaluable and unique source of information about the composer's preparations for the Ring premiere. It also provides interesting insights into Wagner's concepts of dance, gesture and the body in general. With contributions by Liszt scholar James Deaville (historical introduction, annotations, bibliography, index), this work also sheds sheds significant light upon the world of Franz Liszt.
Author : Thomas S. Grey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139825948
Richard Wagner is remembered as one of the most influential figures in music and theatre, but his place in history has been marked by a considerable amount of controversy. His attitudes towards the Jews and the appropriation of his operas by the Nazis, for example, have helped to construct a historical persona that sits uncomfortably with modern sensibilities. Yet Wagner's absolutely central position in the operatic canon continues. This volume serves as a timely reminder of his ongoing musical, cultural, and political impact. Contributions by specialists from such varied fields as musical history, German literature and cultural studies, opera production, and political science consider a range of topics, from trends and problems in the history of stage production to the representations of gender and sexuality. With the inclusion of invaluable and reliably up-to-date biographical data, this collection will be of great interest to scholars, students, and enthusiasts.
Author : Mark Berry
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843839682
Offers histories of music drama beginning with Wagner's Parsifal and then looking at works by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze.
Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135839536
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 : Arthur Groos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521431385
Seven leading international writers discuss the genesis, libretto and music, and performance and reception history of Wagner's Tristan.
Author : David Imhoof,Margaret Eleanor Menninger,Anthony J. Steinhoff
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785331855
For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerk’s lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this wide-ranging collection demonstrates. In eleven compact chapters, scholars from a variety of disciplines trace the idea’s evolution in German-speaking Europe, from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond, providing an uncommonly broad perspective on a distinctly modern cultural form.
Author : Karen Henson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107004269
Karen Henson explores a wealth of new historical material about singers and opera performance in the late nineteenth century.
Author : John Louis DiGaetani
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 078648246X
Once tainted by association with Hitler and Nazism, Richard Wagner’s work has experienced an international cultural renaissance in the last 25 years. His magnum opus, Der Ring des Nibelungen, which took him over 20 years to finish, is a complex tale with themes of greed, corruption and loss, spun out in more than 16 hours of powerfully moving opera. This book, with provocative essays for both the uninitiated and the seasoned fan, examines Wagner’s Ring cycle from a wide array of modern perspectives. Divided into six parts, this anthology first offers a foundation for the Ring, with a chronology and an introduction, along with a look at Wagner as an enterprising marketer. Part Two explores different interpretations of the Ring, with reference to politics, romanticism and international inspirations. Part Three studies the complex relationship between Wagner’s Ring and Germany, with a summary of the opera’s influence on German culture and a discussion of its Munich premiere. Part Four offers a production history, including studies of the Ring’s effects in America and its influence on world literature. Part Five provides a technical examination of language in the Ring, as well as an interview with the famous Wagnerian soprano Jane Eaglen. The book concludes with an essay on the trouble with Wagnerian opera and an overview of the recorded Ring on disc, video and print.
Author : Simon Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139451666
Few major artists have aroused the ire and adulation of successive generations as persistently as Richard Wagner. He was the centre of controversy during his lifetime and yet, when he died, he was the most idolized man in Germany. The situation has not changed much since then. Simon Williams explores the reasons for this adulation and antipathy by examining an aspect that may be a fundamental cause for this radical division in the reception of Wagner's work, the phenomenon of heroism. Williams analyses this heroism as a function of Wagner's theatre and music, beginning with a definition and examination of the concept of the heroic. The book also discusses all thirteen stage works by Wagner and the phenomenon of heroism and Wagner's adaptation of the figure of the Romantic hero. Williams offers a theatrical, musical, and cultural re-evaluation of one of the most enduring figures in the arts.
Author : John W. Barker
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 158046288X
Explores Wagner's lengthy stays in Venice, his death there, and the meaning of his works -- and his death -- for that great city and its mystique.
Author : Murray Steib
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2624 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135942694
The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).
Author : Thomas S. Grey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400831784
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories. Wagner and His World examines his works in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Seven original essays investigate such topics as music drama in light of rituals of naming in the composer's works and the politics of genre; the role of leitmotif in Wagner's reception; the urge for extinction in Tristan und Isolde as psychology and symbol; Wagner as his own stage director; his conflicted relationship with pianist-composer Franz Liszt; the anti-French satire Eine Kapitulation in the context of the Franco-Prussian War; and responses of Jewish writers and musicians to Wagner's anti-Semitism. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Karol Berger, Leon Botstein, Lydia Goehr, Kenneth Hamilton, Katherine Syer, and Christian Thorau. This book also includes translations of essays, reviews, and memoirs by champions and detractors of Wagner; glimpses into his domestic sphere in Tribschen and Bayreuth; and all of Wagner's program notes to his own works. Introductions and annotations are provided by the editor and David Breckbill, Mary A. Cicora, James Deaville, Annegret Fauser, Steven Huebner, David Trippett, and Nicholas Vazsonyi.
Author : Peter Bassett
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 186254624X
This accessible text guides novice and seasoned opera listeners alike through Richard Wagner's renowned Ring cycle. To aid in understanding this complex and often contradictory work, a modern-day prose translation of its four component operas is provided, as is an explanation of "The Nibelung's Ring's mythological background, Wagner's creative process, and the ideas conveyed throughout each component. A section reviewing its numerous musical themes and how they bind the cycle together musically is also included. Rarely seen lithographs by artist Hugo Braune illustrate the story.