Drama And The World Of Richard Wagner
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Drama And The World Of Richard Wagner
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Author : Dieter Borchmeyer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-30
Drama And The World Of Richard Wagner written by Dieter Borchmeyer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-30 with Music categories.
Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. The unceasing debate over his works and their impact--for and against--is one reason why there has been no genuinely comprehensive modern account of his musical dramas until now. Dieter Borchmeyer's book is the first to present an overall picture of these musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It extends from the composer's early works--still largely ignored--to the Ring Cycle and Parsifal, and includes Wagner's unfinished works and operas he never set to music. Through lively prose, we come to see Wagner as a librettist--and as a man of letters--rather than primarily as musical composer. Borchmeyer uncovers a vast field of cultural and historical cross-references in Wagner's works. In the first part of the book, he sets out in search of the various archetypal scenes, opening up the composer's dramatic workshop to the reader. He covers all of Wagner's operas, from early juvenilia to the canonical later works. The second part examines Wagner in relation to political figures including King Ludwig II and Bismarck, and, importantly, in light of critical reactions by literary giants--Thomas Mann, whom Borchmeyer calls "a guiding light in this exploration of the fields that Wagner tilled," and Nietzsche, whose appeal to "philology" is a key source of inspiration in attempts to grapple with Wagner's works. For more than twenty years, Borchmeyer has placed his scholarship at the service of the famed Bayreuth Festival. With this volume, he gives us a summation of decades of engagement with the phenomenon of Wagner and, at the same time, the result of an abiding critical passion for his works.
Drama And The World Of Richard Wagner
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Author : Dieter Borchmeyer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-30
Drama And The World Of Richard Wagner written by Dieter Borchmeyer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-30 with Music categories.
Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. The unceasing debate over his works and their impact--for and against--is one reason why there has been no genuinely comprehensive modern account of his musical dramas until now. Dieter Borchmeyer's book is the first to present an overall picture of these musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It extends from the composer's early works--still largely ignored--to the Ring Cycle and Parsifal, and includes Wagner's unfinished works and operas he never set to music. Through lively prose, we come to see Wagner as a librettist--and as a man of letters--rather than primarily as musical composer. Borchmeyer uncovers a vast field of cultural and historical cross-references in Wagner's works. In the first part of the book, he sets out in search of the various archetypal scenes, opening up the composer's dramatic workshop to the reader. He covers all of Wagner's operas, from early juvenilia to the canonical later works. The second part examines Wagner in relation to political figures including King Ludwig II and Bismarck, and, importantly, in light of critical reactions by literary giants--Thomas Mann, whom Borchmeyer calls "a guiding light in this exploration of the fields that Wagner tilled," and Nietzsche, whose appeal to "philology" is a key source of inspiration in attempts to grapple with Wagner's works. For more than twenty years, Borchmeyer has placed his scholarship at the service of the famed Bayreuth Festival. With this volume, he gives us a summation of decades of engagement with the phenomenon of Wagner and, at the same time, the result of an abiding critical passion for his works.
Selections From The Music Dramas Of Richard Wagner
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Author : Richard Wagner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Selections From The Music Dramas Of Richard Wagner written by Richard Wagner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Music categories.
Richard Wagner His Life And His Dramas
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Author : W. J. Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-06
Richard Wagner His Life And His Dramas written by W. J. Henderson and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-06 with Fiction categories.
This biography delves into the life of Richard Wagner, a German composer, theatre director, conductor, and polemicist, who is famous for his operas or "music dramas." Wagner was a unique opera composer who wrote both the libretto and music for his works, unlike most of his contemporaries. He began his career composing romantic works, but he became a revolutionary force in the world of opera by creating the Gesamtkunstwerk, or "total work of art," which aimed to merge the poetic, visual, musical, and dramatic arts with music subservient to drama. Wagner's most complete realization of this idea was the four-opera cycle 'Der Ring des Nibelungen.' This book provides an in-depth look at the life and accomplishments of one of the most important and innovative figures in the world of music.
Opera And Drama
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Author : Richard Wagner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966-01
Opera And Drama written by Richard Wagner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-01 with categories.
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. 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. This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Parsifal
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Author : Richard Wagner
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
Parsifal written by Richard Wagner and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with Drama categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Parsifal" (A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation) by Richard Wagner, Oliver Huckel. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Studies In The Wagnerian Drama
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Author : Henry Edward Krehbiel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-14
Studies In The Wagnerian Drama written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-14 with categories.
Wagner was a Reformer of the Opera and a Regenerator of the Lyric Drama. To understand the real position which Richard Wagner occupies in the world of art, and to appreciate the significance of the achievements which have kept that world in a turmoil for two generations, it is necessary to guard against a very prevalent misconception touching him and his activities. The world knows him as an agitator and reformer, but it does not know as clearly as it ought that the object for which he labored as controversialist and composer was a reform of the opera, not a reform of music in general. Outside the theatre, it is true, he exerted a tremendous influence on the development of the musical art, but that influence he exerted only because he was a gifted musician who stood in the line of succession with the great ones who had widened the boundaries of music and struck out new paths for it-let me say Bach, Haydn, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann. As a legitimate successor of these Kings by the grace of Genius, he advanced the musical art indeed, but as a reformer his activities went, not to music in its absolute forms, but to an entirely distinct and complex art-form: the modern opera. The term which Wagner invented to describe what he wished to see as the outcome of his strivings-the term which his enemies parodied so successfully that the parody has clung to the popular tongue and lingered in the popular ear, in spite of all explanation-is "The Art-work of the Future." By this "Art-work" he meant a form of theatrical entertainment in which poetry, music, pantomime, painting, and the plastic arts were to co-operate on a basis of mutual dependence-or better, perhaps, interdependence-and common aim, the inspiring purpose of all being dramatic expression. In the history of music and the drama certain strongly-marked phases are found, in which the interdependence of the elements which Wagner consorts in his Art-work can be traced; and if we look at these phases a little thoughtfully, they may help us to understand the present phase, and we may learn not only how to appreciate what Wagner has done, but also how to avoid the misconceptions which so frequently stand in the way of appreciation. Know the Wagner Operas discover what's inside the Wagner Operas Only for REAL Classical Music fans 10 Unique illustrations of Wagner's Opera.
Opera And Drama
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Author : Richard Wagner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
Opera And Drama written by Richard Wagner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with categories.
The Music Dramas Of Richard Wagner And His Festival Theatre In Bayreuth
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Author : Albert Lavignac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Music Dramas Of Richard Wagner And His Festival Theatre In Bayreuth written by Albert Lavignac and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Bayreuther Festspiele categories.
Wagner On Music And Drama
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Author : Richard Wagner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Wagner On Music And Drama written by Richard Wagner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Antisemitism categories.