Richard Wagner and His World (eBook)

Thomas S. Grey (Herausgeber)

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2009
560 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3178-4 (ISBN)

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "e;total work of art"e; 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.

Autor

Thomas S. Grey is professor of music at Stanford University. His books include Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts and The Cambridge Companion to Wagner.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2009
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Zusatzinfo: 24 halftones. 50 musical examples.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Aestheticism • Alfred Hertz • Allusion • Anecdote • archduke • Aristophanes • Art and Revolution • baritone • Battle of Leipzig • Bayreuth • Bayreuth Circle • Bayreuth Festival • Bedeutung • Boris Godunov (opera) • Charles Baudelaire • Christoph Willibald Gluck • Claudio Magris • Composer • Coriolan Overture • Cosima Wagner • Critical edition (opera) • Dante Symphony • Das Judenthum in der Musik • Das Rheingold • Der Ring des Nibelungen • Der Vampyr • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg • Die Musik • Don Giovanni • Eduard Hanslick • Émile Zola • Erik (The Phantom of the Opera) • Euryanthe • Faust Overture • Felix Mendelssohn • Ferdinand David (musician) • for example • Fra Diavolo (opera) • Franco-Prussian War • Franz Betz • Franz Brendel • Franz Liszt • French Opera • Friedrich Chrysander • Friedrich Nietzsche • Friedrich Schiller • Funeral march • Genre • German Art • Germans • Gesamtkunstwerk • Giacomo Meyerbeer • Giuseppe Verdi • Gottfried Semper • Grand opera • greatness • Gustav Mahler • Hans Richter (conductor) • Hans Sachs • Hans von Wolzogen • Harmodius and Aristogeiton • Hector Berlioz • Heinrich Ehrlich • Heinrich Heine • Heinrich Mann • Heinrich Schenker • Heinrich Vogl • henri fantin-latour • Henry Chorley • Israeli Opera • italian opera • Jacques Offenbach • Johannes Brahms • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Josef Hoffmann • Joseph Weigl • Kapellmeister • Kenneth Hamilton • Kraus (musician) • La Muette de Portici • La Sonnambula • Leben • Leitmotif • Leon Botstein • Les Huguenots • Libretto • Liebestod • Literature • Lohengrin (opera) • Ludwig II of Bavaria • Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld • Ludwig Tieck • Ludwig van Beethoven • Medieval Music • Meistersinger • Melodrama • Metropolitan Opera • Modernity • Modulation (music) • musical composition • Musical Theatre • Music Criticism • Music Director • Music History • musician • Music Is • Music of Germany • Music of the Future • musicology • Music publisher (popular music) • narrative • New German School • Opera • Opera and Drama • operetta • orchestra • Orchestra Rehearsal • Orchestration • Paris Commune • Parody • Parsifal • Phrase (music) • Poetry • Prose • Recapitulation (music) • Refrain • Revue • rhetoric • Richard Wagner • ride of the valkyries • Rienzi • Ring Trilogy • Robert Schumann • Romanticism • Royal Opera House • Satire • Schumann • Sebastian Bach • Siegfried Wagner • Singing • Symbolism (arts) • Symphonic Poem • Symphonic poems (Liszt) • Symphony in C (Stravinsky) • Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) • Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) • Temper (soundtrack) • The Artwork of the Future • The Case Of Wagner • The Lost Opera • The Magic Flute • Theodore Thomas (conductor) • The Perfect Wagnerite • tonality • Treble voice • Tribschen • tristan and iseult • Tristan und Isolde • Victor Hugo • Wagnerism • Wahnfried • Weimar Classicism • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Writing • Zeit
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3178-4 / 1400831784
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3178-4 / 9781400831784