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Author : Cosima Wagner
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Cosima Wagner's Diaries: 1878-1883 written by Cosima Wagner and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]. This book was released on 1980 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cosima Wagner
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Cosima Wagner's Diaries: 1878-1883 written by Cosima Wagner and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cosima Wagner
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cosima Wagner's Diaries: 1869-1877 written by Cosima Wagner and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Hilmes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300168233
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Cosima Wagner written by Oliver Hilmes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner—illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Richard Wagner. After Wagner’s death in 1883 Cosima played a crucial role in the promulgation and politicization of his works, assuming control of the Bayreuth Festival and transforming it into a shrine to German nationalism. The High Priestess of the Wagnerian cult, Cosima lived on for almost fifty years, crafting the image of Richard Wagner through her organizational ability and ideological tenacity.The first book to make use of the available documentation at Bayreuth, this biography explores the achievements of this remarkable and obsessive woman while illuminating a still-hidden chapter of European cultural history.
Author : Cosima Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300069044
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Cosima Wagner's Diaries written by Cosima Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima began her diaries on January 1, 1869, a few weeks after leaving her husband to live with Richard Wagner. Until Wagner's death in 1883 they were rarely parted, and the diaries provided a continuous and intimate picture of the composer's life and work during those fourteen years. Widely hailed when they were first published in Geoffrey Skelton's English translation in 1978 and 1980, the diaries are now available in an abridged paperback edition from Yale University Press.
Author : Cosima Wagner
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cosima Wagner's Diaries written by Cosima Wagner and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cosima Wagner
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cosima Wagner's Diaries: 1878-1883 written by Cosima Wagner and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joachim Köhler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300104226
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Joachim Köhler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new biography of Richard Wagner is iconoclastic, astringent and bold. It explores the philosophical roots of Wagner's work, which the composer himself deliberately obfuscated. It re-evaluates Wagner's relationships with his mother, step-father and - most revealingly - his wife, Cosima, standing received opinion on its head. And he meets head on, and confirms, the controversy over Wagner's anti-semitism. At the same time, and notwithstanding, Kohler profoundly acknowledges Wagner's genius.
Author : Milton E. Brener
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491388
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Richard Wagner and the Jews written by Milton E. Brener and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that Richard Wagner, the renowned and controversial 19th century composer, exhibited intense anti-Semitism. The evidence is everywhere in his writings as well as in conversations his second wife recorded in her diaries. In his infamous essay "Judaism in Music," Wagner forever cemented his unpleasant reputation with his assertion that Jews were incapable of either creating or appreciating great art. Wagner's close ties with many talented Jews, then, are surprising. Most writers have dismissed these connections as cynical manipulations and rank hypocrisy. Examination of the original sources, however, reveals something different: unmistakeable, undeniable empathy and friendship between Wagner and the Jews in his life. Indeed, the composer had warm relationships with numerous individual Jews. Two of them resided frequently over extended periods in his home. One of these, the rabbi's son Hermann Levi, conducted Wagner's final opera--Parsifal, based on Christian legend--at Wagner's request; no one, Wagner declared, understood his work so well. Even in death his Jewish friends were by his side; two were among his twelve pallbearers. The contradictions between Wagner's antipathy toward the amorphous entity "The Jews" and his genuine friendships with individual Jews are the subject of this book. Drawing on extensive sources in both German and English, including Wagner's autobiography and diary and the diaries of his second wife, this comprehensive treatment of Wagner's anti-Semitism is the first to place it in perspective with his life and work. Included in the text are portions of unpublished letters exchanged between Wagner and Hermann Levi. Altogether, the book reveals astonishing complexities in a man long known as much for his prejudice as for his epic contributions to opera.
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Diary of Richard Wagner, 1865-1882 written by Richard Wagner and published by Orion. This book was released on 1980 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924629
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Martin Geck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] intriguing exploration of the composer’s life and thought as exemplified by his music. An excellent biography.” —Library Journal Best known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the development of European music is indisputable, Wagner was also quite outspoken on the politics and culture of his time. His ideas traveled beyond musical circles into philosophy, literature, theater staging, and the visual arts. To befit such a dynamic figure, acclaimed biographer Martin Geck offers here a Wagner biography unlike any other, one that strikes a unique balance between the technical musical aspects of Wagner’s compositions and his overarching understanding of aesthetics. A landmark study of one of music’s most important figures “People who would like to know more about Wagner, and people who have loved his music for years . . . will find a great deal in this book to enjoy and to admire.” —Tablet “Geck describes a Wagner who is grounded, focused and even cautious, a savvy realist and ironist rather than a flamboyant, flailing ideologue . . . Suffused with his readings of contemporary productions of the operas, Geck’s musical analyses are succinct and superb” —New York Times “As an editor of Wagner’s Complete Works, Geck brings a deep familiarity with the composer to his task.” —Weekly Standard “A thoroughly approachable yet consistently provocative study.” —Thomas S. Grey, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Wagner
Author : Cosima Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780151226368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Cosima Wagner's Diaries: 1869-1877 written by Cosima Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312428626
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Winnie and Wolf written by A. N. Wilson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winnie and Wolf is the story of the extraordinary friendship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler in the Years between the First and Second World Wars. The girl who would become Winifred Wagner was raised in an orphanage and married, at the age of eighteen, to the gay son of composer Richard Wagner. As heiress to the country's most august cultural legacy, she grows up in the Wagner family compound, surrounded by the philosophers and composers who would define western European culture in the mid-twentieth century. In 1923, the Wagners met the man who would be their hero and hope for the future: a wild-eyed Viennese opera fanatic named Adolf Hitler. Almost immediately Winnie and Wolf struck up an intimate friendship. In A. N. Wilson's most bold and ambitious novel yet, the world of the Weimar Republic comes to vivid life as the backdrop to this strange and powerful kinship.
Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571132376
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal written by William Kinderman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work.
Author : Dieter Borchmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780193153226
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Dieter Borchmeyer and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1991 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner has come to be seen as the quintessential artist of the nineteenth century, whose work embraces all the arts of the period. Dieter Borchmeyer here provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of Wagner's aesthetic theory, examining his hitherto neglected prosewritings and his ideas on music drama from the various standpoints of literature, the linking of ideas, and the sociology of art. The pre-eminent importance for Wagner of classical Greek art and mythology emerges with particular clarity, while his links with the great figures and forms of worldtheatre - Shakespeare, the commedia dell'arte, the popular theatre, and the puppet theatre - are traced in detail. The influence on Wagner of the historical and social novel is also discussed. The author provides the first comprehensive analysis of Cosima Wagner's Diaries, and throws unexpectedsidelights on Wagner's relationship with Nietzsche, in particular his important contribution to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. Central to the present study are Wagner's music dramas from Die Feen to Parsifal. These are examined in their literary, ideological, and socio-political contexts (including the problem of anti-Semitism). First published in German in 1982, this book has become established as a standard work ofWagner scholarship, and now appears for the first time in English in a completely revised edition incorporating a number of new chapters on the music dramas.
Author : Laurence Dreyfus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674018818
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Wagner and the Erotic Impulse written by Laurence Dreyfus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. Daring to represent erotic stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of sexual desire, Wagner sparked intense reactions from figures like Baudelaire, Clara Schumann, Nietzsche, and Nordau, whose verbal tributes and censures disclose what was transmitted when music represented sex. Wagner himself saw the cultivation of an erotic high style as central to his art, especially after devising an anti-philosophical response to Schopenhauer’s “metaphysics of sexual love.” A reluctant eroticist, Wagner masked his personal compulsion to cross-dress in pink satin and drench himself in rose perfumes while simultaneously incorporating his silk fetish and love of floral scents into his librettos. His affection for dominant females and surprising regard for homosexual love likewise enable some striking portraits in his operas. In the end, Wagner’s achievement was to have fashioned an oeuvre which explored his sexual yearnings as much as it conveyed—as never before—how music could act on erotic impulse.
Author : Jonathan Carr
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802143997
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Wagner Clan written by Jonathan Carr and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the legacy of the German composer Richard Wagner and his descendants in terms of the rise, fall, and resurrection of Germany in modern Europe.
