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Author | : Anne Dzamba Sessa |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780838620557 |
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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.
Author | : Hans Gál |
Publisher | : Scarborough House |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : John Louis DiGaetani |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838619551 |
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Examines the profound influence Richard Wagner had on modern British fiction and such authors and artists as Shaw, Ford Madox Ford, Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and Jessie Weston.
Author | : Carl Friedrich Glasenapp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Thomas S. Grey |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2009-07-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1400831784 |
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories. Wagner and His World examines his works in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Seven original essays investigate such topics as music drama in light of rituals of naming in the composer's works and the politics of genre; the role of leitmotif in Wagner's reception; the urge for extinction in Tristan und Isolde as psychology and symbol; Wagner as his own stage director; his conflicted relationship with pianist-composer Franz Liszt; the anti-French satire Eine Kapitulation in the context of the Franco-Prussian War; and responses of Jewish writers and musicians to Wagner's anti-Semitism. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Karol Berger, Leon Botstein, Lydia Goehr, Kenneth Hamilton, Katherine Syer, and Christian Thorau. This book also includes translations of essays, reviews, and memoirs by champions and detractors of Wagner; glimpses into his domestic sphere in Tribschen and Bayreuth; and all of Wagner's program notes to his own works. Introductions and annotations are provided by the editor and David Breckbill, Mary A. Cicora, James Deaville, Annegret Fauser, Steven Huebner, David Trippett, and Nicholas Vazsonyi.
Author | : Richard Wagner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Operas |
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Author | : Richard Wagner |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780803297654 |
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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. ø 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. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
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Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Operas |
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Author | : Richard Wagner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Author | : Richard Wagner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1928 |
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