Wagner And Literature
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Wagner And Literature
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Author : Raymond Furness
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1982
Wagner And Literature written by Raymond Furness and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literature, Modern categories.
Examines the influence of Wagner on European literature and culture, from Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche to the surrealist poet Stéphane Mallarmé and the decadent illustrator Aubrey Beardsley.
Richard Wagner S Zurich
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Author : Chris Walton
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2007
Richard Wagner S Zurich written by Chris Walton and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An investigation of the considerable influence of Wagner's stay in Zurich from 1849 to 1858 -- a period often discounted by scholars -- on his career. When the people of Dresden rose up against their king in May 1849, Richard Wagner went from Royal Kapellmeister to republican revolutionary overnight. He gambled everything, but the rebellion failed, and he lost all. Now a wantedman in Germany, he fled to Zurich. Years later, he wrote that the city was "devoid of any public art form" and full of "simple people who knew nothing of my work as an artist." But he lied: Zurich boasted arguably the world's greatest concentration of radical intellectuals and a vibrant music scene. Wagner was accepted with open arms. This book investigates Wagner's affect on the musical life of the city and the city's impact on him. Mathilde Wesendonck emerges not as Wagner's passive muse but as a self-assured woman who exploited gender expectations to her own benefit. In 1858, Wagner had to flee Zurich after again gambling everything -- this time on Mathilde -- and again losing.But it was in Zurich that Wagner wrote his major theoretical works; composed Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and parts of Siegfried and Tristan und Isolde; first planned Parsifal; held the first festival of his music; and conceived of a theater to stage his own works. If Wagner had been free in 1849 to choose a city in which to seek heightened intellectual stimulation among the like-minded and the similarly gifted, he could have come to nomore perfect place. Chris Walton teaches music history at the Musikhochschule Basel in Switzerland. He is the recipient of the 2010 Max Geilinger Prize honoring exemplary contributions to the literary and cultural relationship between Switzerland and the English-speaking world.
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.
Wagner And Russia
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Author : Rosamund Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-02-02
Wagner And Russia written by Rosamund Bartlett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book explores the influence of the composer Richard Wagner on Russian writers, musicians and artists.
Wagner And His Works The Story Of His Life With Critical Comments Volume One
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Author : Henry Theophilus Finck
language : en
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
Release Date : 2004-09
Wagner And His Works The Story Of His Life With Critical Comments Volume One written by Henry Theophilus Finck and has been published by The Minerva Group, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A lively and provocative study of the great composer and his works. Mr. Finck's established reputation as a musical scholar, thorough familiarity with Wagner literature, and interesting style, give his book a marked and permanent value. It is the result of many years' special study, and is both a full review of Wagner's life, the dramatic episodes of which are treated with unusual fullness, and a summary and critical analysis of the musical and poetic contents of his writings, rich in anecdote and apposite quotation. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.
Wagner In Russia Poland And The Czech Lands
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Author : Stephen Muir
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-24
Wagner In Russia Poland And The Czech Lands written by Stephen Muir and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-24 with Music categories.
Richard Wagner has arguably the greatest and most long-term influence on wider European culture of all nineteenth-century composers. And yet, among the copious English-language literature examining Wagner's works, influence, and character, research into the composer’s impact and role in Russia and Eastern European countries, and perceptions of him from within those countries, is noticeably sparse. Wagner in Russia, Poland and the Czech Lands aims to redress imbalance and stimulate further research in this rich area. The eight essays are divided in three parts - one each on Russia, the Czech lands and Poland - and cover a wide historical span, from the composer’s first contacts with and appearances in these regions, through to his later reception in the Communist era. The contributing authors examine his influences in a wide range of areas such as music, literary and epistolary heritage, politics, and the cultural histories of Russia, the Czech lands, and Poland, in an attempt to establish Wagner’s place in a part of Europe not commonly addressed in studies of the composer.
Stories From Wagner
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Author : Richard Wagner
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-06-02
Stories From Wagner 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 2022-06-02 with Fiction categories.
"Stories from Wagner" is a book containing eight powerful stories by a storyteller known as Richard Wagner. This book contains some fantastic stories from him including the ring of the curse, Parsifal the pure, and Lohengrin the swan knight with five other stories. It is rich in short, eventful stories for the young and old. A mix of tragedy with mystery.
Wagner To The Waste Land
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Author : Stoddard Martin
language : en
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books
Release Date : 1982-01-01
Wagner To The Waste Land written by Stoddard Martin and has been published by Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-01-01 with English literature categories.
Richard Wagner Composer Of Operas
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Author : John F. Runciman
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-09
Richard Wagner Composer Of Operas written by John F. Runciman and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-09 with Fiction categories.
"Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas" is a biography book by John F. Runciman. The author touches upon the main points in Wagner's life and casts light on the lesser-known sides of the great composer's personality. Besides being a valuable work of literature, the work presented here is also a great example of the Victorian-era genre of biography.
Wagner And The Novel
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Author : Hugh Ridley
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Wagner And The Novel written by Hugh Ridley and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Music categories.
This study bridges literature and music at an exciting and controversial point, offering the lover of music and literature and the specialist reader an insight into the relationship between Wagner’s operas and the nineteenth century novel, including comparisons with Rigoletto and Der Rosenkavalier in their evolution from other forms. It discusses matters of genre and national tradition, placing Wagner’s works in the heritage of the European Enlightenment. Comparisons of Wagner’s works with the novel have been fleeting, denoting only their length and complexity. Examining in principle and in detail the proximity of Wagner’s themes and techniques to the practices of the Realist novel, this study sheds original light on major issues of Wagner’s works and on opera as genre. The book trawls extensively in two research fields. It looks to the established Wagner literature for understandings of the musical procedures which map his works onto the prose fiction, while reading Wagner’s operas against the backdrop of the European novel, rather than against German Romantic fiction. It revisits Adorno’s music sociology and his seminal study of Wagner, but repositions many elements of his argument. Unusually, this book adopts a critical stance to Nietzsche’s view of Wagner. In marked contrast to Nietzsche, the study regards parallels between Wagner and Flaubert as an enrichment of our understanding of Wagner’s achievement. The book concludes with a major question of European cultural history: why it is that – in common with Italy, but in marked contrast to France or England – Germany’s most representative works in the nineteenth century are operas rather than novels.