Wagner And The Creation Of The Ring

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Wagner And The Creation Of The Ring

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Author : Michael Downes
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2025-07-01

Wagner And The Creation Of The Ring written by Michael Downes and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-01 with Music categories.

Part cultural history, part biography, this is the fascinating story of Richard Wagner’s life, influences, gift for storytelling, and artistic revolution, culminating in the dramatic journey to write The Ring Cycle. The Ring Cycle is one of the most epic and compelling operas of the nineteenth century, created by a composer who was, alongside Dickens, Tolstoy, and Victor Hugo, also one of the century’s master storytellers. But the story of how Richard Wagner created the work is one full of intrigue and triumphs against unlikely odds—as well as controversy, due to the composer’s anti-semitic views and popularity with the Nazi party. In Wagner and the Creation of the Ring, Michael Downes combines cultural history and biography to recount the colorful, fascinating, and insightful journey behind the creation of The Ring and its mythology. He tells the story of how and why this extraordinary masterpiece came into being, why it takes the form it does, why it fascinates and obsesses so many—and horrifies others—and why it still matters today.

Story Of The Century

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Author : Michael Downes
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2024-11-05

Story Of The Century written by Michael Downes and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-05 with Music categories.

A colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner's extraordinary masterpiece, Ring of the Nibelung. The Ring is one of the most epic and compelling stories of the nineteenth century, created by a composer who was, alongside Dickens, Tolstoy and Victor-Hugo, also one of the century's master storytellers. But the story of how Wagner created the work is one full of intrigue and triumphs against unlikely odds - as well as controversy, due to the composer's anti-semitic views and popularity with the Nazi party. In Story of the Century, Michael Downes combines cultural history and biography to offer this accessible and insightful introduction to The Ring and its mythology. He tells the story of how and why this extraordinary masterpiece came into being, why it takes the form it does, why it fascinates and obsesses so many and horrifies others, and why it matters.

The Consolations Of History Themes Of Progress And Potential In Richard Wagner S Gotterdammerung

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Author : Alexander Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-16

The Consolations Of History Themes Of Progress And Potential In Richard Wagner S Gotterdammerung written by Alexander Shapiro and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In this book on Richard Wagner’s compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Götterdämmerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapiro advances an ambitious new interpretation which uncovers intriguing new facets to the work’s profound insights into the human condition. By taking a fresh look at the philosophical and historical influences on Wagner, and critically reevaluating the composer’s intellectual worldview as revealed in his own prose works, letters, and diary entries, the book challenges a number of conventional views that continue to impede a clear understanding of this work’s meaning. The book argues that Götterdämmerung, and hence the Ring as a whole, achieves coherence when interpreted in terms of contemporary nineteenth-century theories of progress, and, in particular, G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophies of mind and history. A central target of the book is the article of faith that has come to dominate Wagner scholarship over the years – that Wagner’s encounter in 1854 with Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy conclusively altered the final message of the Ring from one of historical optimism to existential pessimism. The author contends that Schopenhauer’s uncompromising denigration of the will and denial of the possibility for human progress find no place in the written text of the Ring or in a plausible reading of the final musical setting. In its place, the author discovers in the famous Immolation Scene a celebration of mankind’s inexhaustible capacity for self-improvement and progress. The author makes the further compelling case that this message of progress is communicated not through Siegfried, the traditional male hero of the drama, but through Brünnhilde, the warrior goddess who becomes a mortal woman. In her role as a battle-tested world-historical prophet she is the true revolutionary change agent of Wagner’s opera who has the strength and vision to comprehend and thereby shape human history. This highly lucid and accessible study is aimed not only at scholars and researchers in the fields of opera studies, music and philosophy, and music history, but also Wagner enthusiasts, and readers and students interested in the history and philosophy of the nineteenth century.

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.

Wagner S Ring Of The Nibelung

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Author : Gustav Kobbé
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

Wagner S Ring Of The Nibelung 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 1894 with categories.

A cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.

How To Understand Wagner S Ring Of The Nibelung

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

How To Understand Wagner S Ring Of The Nibelung 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.

The Cambridge Companion To Wagner S Der Ring Des Nibelungen

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Author : Mark Berry
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-24

The Cambridge Companion To Wagner S Der Ring Des Nibelungen written by Mark Berry 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 2020-09-24 with Music categories.

This Companion provides an overview and in-depth analysis of Wagner's Ring using traditional critical analysis alongside more recent approaches.

An Introduction To Richard Wagner S Der Ring Des Nibelungen

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Author : William O. Cord
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

An Introduction To Richard Wagner S Der Ring Des Nibelungen written by William O. Cord and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Music categories.

Today, more than a century after its first performance, Richard Wagner's The Ring of Nibelung endures as one of the most significant artistic creations in the history of opera. This monumental work not only altered previously accepted concepts of music and drama but also inspired creative and intellectual efforts far beyond the field of opera. Previous studies of the Ring have appealed only to those already acquainted in some way with the Wagnerian art. For the uninitiated, Wagner and his landmark creation have seemed forbidding, and those eager to learn about the masterpiece have faced a vast and frequently esoteric body of commentary. Professor Cord addresses the interests of the non-specialist by taking the reader first into Wagner's unique intent, and then through the complete history of the Ring. Cord, who has attended forty performances of the Ring, considers the conception of the poem, its development into a music-drama exemplifying Wagnerian thought, its introduction to the world, and the reactions and interpretation it elicits.

The Making Of Theatre History

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Author : Paul Kuritz
language : en
Publisher: PAUL KURITZ
Release Date : 1988

The Making Of Theatre History written by Paul Kuritz and has been published by PAUL KURITZ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Performing Arts categories.

Richard Wagner

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language : en
Publisher: PediaPress
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Richard Wagner written by and has been published by PediaPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.