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Richard Wagner And The English

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Author : Anne Dzamba Sessa
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1979

Richard Wagner And The English written by Anne Dzamba Sessa and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Music categories.

Wagner was more than a composer--he was a cultural phenomenon. The author seeks to explain this phenomenon. One claim is that Wagner's music dramas served to provide encouragement and inspiration to Victorians struggling with the problems of a changing and challenging era. Intellectual developments (including the theories of Charles Darwin and the impact of historical scholarship on Biblical studies) had struck a severe blow against religious orthodoxy. Thus, the English strove to retain their inherited or instinctive beliefs and at the same time to accept the conclusions of natural and social science. Frustrated by the academic arguments, many persons turned to less intellectual substitutes, including Wagnerism. Almost all of Wagner's plots involve some form of redemption and hunger for the infinite. The author also claims that Wagnerism drew on the Victorian need for social justice, and points out that just as many Wagnerians sought emancipation from confining materialist philosophies or simply delighted in sexual liberation.

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.

Richard Wagner And The Music Of The Future

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Author : Francis Hueffer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874

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Richard Wagner And The Style Of The Music Drama

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Author : Wilbur Fiske Stone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897

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Richard Wagner And His World

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Author : Thomas S. Grey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

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Wagner And His Works

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Author : Henry T. Finck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916

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The Music Dramas Of Richard Wagner And His Festival Theatre In Bayreuth Tr By E Singleton

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Author : Alexandre Jean Albert Lavignac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

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The Life And Times Of Richard Wagner

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Author : Jim Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2005-09

The Life And Times Of Richard Wagner written by Jim Whiting and has been published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

The popularity of The Lord of the Rings echoes a similar work about a ring with magical powers. This work is known as The Ring of the Nibelung, and it consists of four separate operas. Also known as the Ring Cycle, it was the crowning point of the career of the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner was somewhat of a late bloomer in music. His first major composition was performed when he was nearly 30, and the Ring Cycle premiered when he was 53. While Richard Wagner was among the world's greatest composers, he was not a particularly good person. He didn't repay borrowed money, he bore grudges against people who had done favors for him, he was unfaithful to his first wife, and he took his second wife away from her husband. He remains fascinating and controversial today. Tens of thousands of books and articles have been written about him.

The Life Of Richard Wagner And The Wagnerian Drama

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Author : David Falkayn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-07-01

The Life Of Richard Wagner And The Wagnerian Drama written by David Falkayn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883), a German poet and composer, he was educated at the Dresden Kreuzs-chule and at the Leipzig University. He studied music under Weinlig, and became chorus master at the Wurzburg Theatre in 1833, and conductor at Madgeburg in 1834. Here he produced his opera, Das Liebesverbot, founded on Shakespeares Measure for Measure. In 1836 he married, and two years later he became music director at Riga, Russia. He turned his attention to the composing of Rienzi, an opera in five acts, which, after having been refused in Paris, was brought out in Dresden in 1842. From 1842 to 1849 he was conductor of the royal opera at Dresden. In 1843 The Flying Dutchman was composed and performed, and two years afterward he produced Tannh user at Dresden. These works constitute Wagners early operas; and being based upon the accepted forms, are held by many to be his best efforts. He produced Lohengrin in 1850 From 1855 to 1863 he conducted performances in Germany and Russia, and a series of concerts in London. In 1864 he won the ear of his famous patron, Ludwig II. of Bavaria, and thereafter he wanted nothing that the extravagant wealth of the royal amateur could command. He now began Der Ring des Nibelungen; and the first two parts, The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie, were given at Munich in 1869 and I 870, respectively. This installment of the great tetralogy, or opera in series, completed by the production of the third and fourth parts, Siegfried and G tterd mmerung, at Bayreuth in 1876, was the fulfilment of much of what Lohengrin had only been the herald. Two other equally advanced works, Tristan and Isolde (1865), and The Mastersingers of Nuremburg (1868), had already, however, embodied the Wagnerian theory of the importance of dramatic truth as well as of musical beauty. Parsifal, his last great work, was produced in 1882. In 1870 Wagner married again, this time Cosima von B low, n e Liszt, with whom he settled in 1872 at Bayreuth. Here he built the large opera house in which in 1876, in the presentation of the complete Ring des Nibelungen, his musical theories first found full expression. In 1876 he visited London to conduct a Wagner festival, and in 1883 he paid a visit to Italy, where he breathed his last. The list of his operas include, besides the works already mentioned, Die Hochzeit (1833), an unpublished fragment, and Die Feen (1833). He also published numerous songs, and wrote many articles, libretti, and the like, not contained in his collected writings, or cancelled. It is by no means only as a mucisian that Wagner will be remembered. His many prose writings, which have been collected m ten volumes, show that he would have made his mark as a philosophical and polemical essayist had not music itself supervened. He was always his own librettist, and the text of his musical works has a very considerable poetical value.

Richard Wagner And The Style Of The Music Drama

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Author : Wilbur Fiske Stone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897

Richard Wagner And The Style Of The Music Drama written by Wilbur Fiske Stone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with categories.