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Wagner S Meistersinger

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Author : Nicholas Vazsonyi
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2004

Wagner S Meistersinger written by Nicholas Vazsonyi and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Music categories.

Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" has been one of the most performed operas ever since its premier in 1868, as it epitomizes themes of Germanness. This volume examines the representation of German history in the opera and the way it has functioned in history through political appropriation and staging practice. in performance.

Tradition Community And Nationhood In Richard Wagner S Die Meistersinger Von N Rnberg

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Author : Christopher Kimbell
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-02

Tradition Community And Nationhood In Richard Wagner S Die Meistersinger Von N Rnberg written by Christopher Kimbell and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-02 with Music categories.

Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to retain its unofficial status as the German national opera. The work’s significance as a touchstone of national culture survived even such troubling episodes as its public endorsement in 1933 as ‘the most German of all German operas’ by Joseph Goebbels or the rendition in previous years by audiences at Bayreuth of both national and Nazi-party anthems at the work’s culmination. This chequered reception history and apparent propensity for reinterpretation or reclamation has long fuelled debates over the socio-political meanings of Wagner’s musical narrative. On the question of Beckmesser, for instance, heated arguments have surrounded the existence of antisemitic stereotypes in the work as well as their possible indication of a racial-political dimension to Sachs’s restoration of Nuremberg society. Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersinger’s narrative. In four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, the book traces a critical potential within the opera’s construction of provincial and national identities and problematizes existing discourse around its depiction of race and gender.

Treacherous Bonds And Laughing Fire Politics And Religion In Wagner S Ring

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Author : Mark Berry
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05

Treacherous Bonds And Laughing Fire Politics And Religion In Wagner S Ring written by Mark Berry and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.

Mark Berry explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner's Ring through close attention to the text and drama, the multifarious intellectual influences upon the composer during the work's lengthy gestation and composition, and the wealth of Wagner source material. Many of his writings are explicitly political in their concerns, for Wagner was emphatically not a revolutionary solely for the sake of art. Yet it would be misleading to see even the most 'political' tracts as somehow divorced from the aesthetic realm; Wagner's radical challenge to liberal-democratic politics makes no such distinction. This book considers Wagner's treatment of various worlds: nature, politics, economics, and metaphysics, in order to explain just how radical that challenge is. Classical interpretations have tended to opt either for an 'optimistic' view of the Ring, centred upon the influence of Young Hegelian thought - in particular the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach - and Wagner's concomitant revolutionary politics, or for the 'pessimistic' option, removing the disillusioned Wagner-in-Swiss-exile from the political sphere and stressing the undoubtedly important role of Arthur Schopenhauer. Such an 'either-or' approach seriously misrepresents not only Wagner's compositional method but also his intellectual method. It also sidelines inconvenient aspects of the dramas that fail to 'fit' whichever interpretation is selected. Wagner's tendency is not progressively to recant previous 'errors' in his oeuvre. Radical ideas are not completely replaced by a Schopenhauerian world-view, however loudly the composer might come to trumpet his apparent 'conversion'. Nor is Wagner's truly an Hegelian method, although Hegelian dialectic plays an important role. In fact, Wagner is in many ways not really a systematic thinker at all (which is not to portray him as self-consciously unsystematic in a Nietzschean, let alone 'post-modernist' fashion).

New Studies In Richard Wagner S The Ring Of The Nibelung

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Author : Edwin Mellen Press
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 1991

New Studies In Richard Wagner S The Ring Of The Nibelung written by Edwin Mellen Press and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Music categories.

This volume comprises papers presented at the 1988 Wagner conference in Seattle exploring this opera cycle as music, myth, theatre art, and literature, including comparisons with T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland and James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

The Changing Image Of Beethoven

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Author : Alessandra Comini
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2008

The Changing Image Of Beethoven written by Alessandra Comini and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In this unique study of the myth-making process across two centuries, Comini examines the contradictory imagery of Beethoven in contemporary verbal accounts, and in some 200 paintings, prints, sculptures, and monuments.

A Dictionary Of Universal Biography Of All Ages Of All Peoples

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Author : Albert M. Hyamson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Release Date : 1951

A Dictionary Of Universal Biography Of All Ages Of All Peoples written by Albert M. Hyamson and has been published by Routledge Kegan & Paul this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Wagner S Life And Works Nibelung Tristan Mastersingers Parsifal

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Author : Gustav Kobbé
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

Wagner S Life And Works Nibelung Tristan Mastersingers Parsifal written by Gustav Kobbé and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.

Wagner S Theatre

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Author : Patrick Carnegy
language : en
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Release Date : 2024-04-25

Wagner S Theatre written by Patrick Carnegy and has been published by Lutterworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-25 with Music categories.

In Wagner's Theatre, Patrick Carnegy presents the turbulent story of Wagner and his interpreters over the course of the twentieth century. Carnegy gives vivid accounts of Gustav Mahler's radical reinvention of the Wagnerian stage, and of the post-war rehabilitation of Wagner and his work after Hitler's appropriation. He also offers sharply written reappraisals of those great Wagnerian conductors Klemperer, Toscanini, Karajan and Solti. Carnegy provides revealing accounts of the inside-workings of the Royal Opera House and of English National Opera at troubled points in their recent history. In a fascinating conversation with Sir Michael Tippett, the composer talks with unique authority about the problems facing would-be musical dramatists today. Wagner's Theatre is an essential insight into how interpretations of Wagner have developed, and how we can respond to them.

Richard Wagner His Life His Work His Century

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Author : Martin Gregor-Dellin
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Release Date : 1983

Richard Wagner His Life His Work His Century written by Martin Gregor-Dellin and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Theology Of Wagner S Ring Cycle I

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Author : Richard H. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-01-21

Theology Of Wagner S Ring Cycle I written by Richard H. Bell and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-21 with Music categories.

Wagner’s Ring is one of the greatest of all artworks of Western civilization, but what is it all about? The power and mystery of Wagner’s creation was such that he himself felt he stood before his work “as though before some puzzle.” A clue to the Ring’s greatness lies in its multiple avenues of self-disclosure and the corresponding plethora of interpretations that over the years has granted ample scope for directors and will no doubt do so well into the distant future. One possible interpretation, which Richard Bell argues should be taken seriously, is the Ring as Christian theology. In this first of two volumes, Bell considers, among other things, how the composer’s Christian interests may be detected in the “forging” of his Ring, looking at how he appropriated his sources (whether they be myths and sagas, writers, poets, or philosophers) and considering works composed around the same time, especially his Jesus of Nazareth.