Richard Wagner and his world /

Richard Wagner and his world /

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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. Examine his works in dialogue with their intellectual and cultural contexts

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, Bard Music Festival
Other Authors: Grey, Thomas S, Grey, Thomas S. (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009
Princeton, NJ : [2009]
Edition:Course Book
Series:Bard Music Festival ; 21
Bard Music Festival series
Subjects:
Wagner, Richard, > 1813-1883 > Criticism and interpretation
Wagner, Richard
Wagner, Richard, > 1813-1883
1800-1899
19th century
Music > 19th century > History and criticism
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician
Music
Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc > UNAUTHORIZED
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Dictionaries
Table of Contents:
  • Essays
  • Biographical contexts
  • Toward a music of the future: 1840-1860
  • Wagner and Paris
  • The Bayreuth era
  • The complete program notes of Richard Wagner
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Permissions
  • Part I. Essays
  • From Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur / Syer, Katherine
  • Wagner and Liszt: Elective Affinities / Hamilton, Kenneth
  • From Opera to Music Drama: Nominal Loss, Titular Gain / Goehr, Lydia
  • Eine Kapitulation: Aristophanic Operetta as Cultural Warfare in 1870 / Grey, Thomas S.
  • A Note on Tristan's Death Wish / Berger, Karol
  • Guides for Wagnerites: Leitmotifs and Wagnerian Listening / Thorau, Christian
  • German Jews and Wagner / Botstein, Leon
  • Part II. Biographical Contexts
  • Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and Wagner's Dresden / Glümer, Claire Von / Chorley, Henry / Grey, Thomas S.
  • Catulle Mendès Visits Tribschen / Mendès, Catulle / Grey, Thomas S.
  • Recollections of Villa Wahnfried from Wagner's American Dentist / Jenkins, Newell Sill / Grey, Thomas S.
  • Part III. Toward A Music Of The Future 1840-1860
  • The Overture to Tannhäuser / Liszt, Franz / Trippett, David / Dwight, John Sullivan
  • Letters to a Young Composer About Wagner / Lobe, Johann Christian
  • Franz Brendel's Reconciliation Address / Brendel, Franz / Deaville, James / Cicora, Mary A.
  • Part IV. Wagner and Paris
  • Wagner Admires Meyerbeer (Les Huguenots) / Wagner, Richard / Grey, Thomas S.
  • Debacle at the Paris Opéra: Tannhäuser and the French Critics, 1861 / Comettant, Oscar / Scudo, Paul / Grey, Thomas S. / Fauser, Annegret
  • The Revue wagnérienne: Symbolism, Aestheticism, and Germanophilia / Huysmans, J. K. / Wyzewa, Teodor De / Dujardin, Edouard / Huebner, Steven / King, Brendan / Mandell, Charlotte
  • Part V. The Bayreuth Era
  • Press Releases from the Bayreuth Festival, 1876: An Early Attempt at Spin Control / Zimmermann, J. / Vazsonyi, Nicholas
  • Hanslick contra Wagner: "The Ring Cycle Comes to Vienna" and "Parsifal Literature" / Hanslick, Eduard / Grey, Thomas S.
  • Hans von Wolzogen's Parsifal (1887) / Wolzogen, Hans Von / Cicora, Mary A.
  • Cosima Wagner's Bayreuth / Pohl, Richard / Seidl, Arthur / Gura, Eugen / Schering, Arnold / Chevalley, Heinrich / Cicora, Mary A. / Breckbill, David
  • Part VI. The Complete Program Notes of Richard Wagner
  • Wagner Introduces Wagner (and Beethoven): Program Notes Written for Concert Performances by and of Richard Wagner 1846-1880 / Grey, Thomas S.
  • Index
  • Notes on the Contributors

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