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Book Synopsis Wagner and the Art of the Theatre by : Patrick Carnegy
Download or read book Wagner and the Art of the Theatre written by Patrick Carnegy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapitre 6, p. 175-207, consacré à Adolphe Appia.
Book Synopsis The Wagnerian Drama by : Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Download or read book The Wagnerian Drama written by Houston Stewart Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Drama and the World of Richard Wagner by : Dieter Borchmeyer
Download or read book Drama and the World of Richard Wagner written by Dieter Borchmeyer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Studies in the Wagnerian Drama by : Henry Edward Krehbiel
Download or read book Studies in the Wagnerian Drama written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by London : J.R. Osgood, McIlvaine. This book was released on 1891 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wagnerian Drama; an Attempt to Inspire a Better Appreciation of Wagner As a Dramatic Poet by : Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Download or read book The Wagnerian Drama; an Attempt to Inspire a Better Appreciation of Wagner As a Dramatic Poet written by Houston Stewart Chamberlain and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill THE DRAMAS OF THE PERIOD BEFORE 1848 "To comprehend my intention became ever more clearly the principal object I had in view." Richard Wagner. IF we now look back, from this point of view, on the works which were composed before 1848, we shall find that we have gained quite a new comprehension of them. We shall then be able to pass on them a critical judgment which has nothing in common with the usual praise and blame, but one whose every assertion signifies some true insight. The reader, I trust, will by this time have realised the justification of what was said at the beginning, namely, that "Wagner only made use of opera because he needed a musical and scenic apparatus for the realisation of his dramatic intentions and thought that opera would afford him this." It is by no means my object to quarrel with words, and I repeat, that I do not deny that Wagner had the 46 express intention of writing operas; but it is impossible for us to come to a proper appreciation of the works of the first period, both for themselves, as well as for the role they play in Wagner's development, if we do not realise the fact that in their innermost being they are distinct from everything which we generally understand by opera. A clear appreciation of this fact is the first and most important realisation with regard to these works of the first period. From what has been said so far, this fact may already have been apprehended, but in the following I hope to be able to transform this apprehension into the fullest conviction, in order to show at the same time how we should use this realisation in order to arrive at a true comprehension. In the first work, " The Fairies," we already find the purely-human motive of Redemption through Love as foundation and...
Download or read book Opera and Drama written by Richard Wagner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Staging Wagnerian Drama by : Adolphe Appia
Download or read book Staging Wagnerian Drama written by Adolphe Appia and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 1982 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in the Wagnerian Drama by : Henry Edward Krehbiel
Download or read book Studies in the Wagnerian Drama written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Book Synopsis Judaism in Music and Other Essays by : Richard Wagner
Download or read book Judaism in Music and Other Essays written by Richard Wagner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality-that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to his reputation as to his genius. Often maddening, and sometimes called mad, Wagner wrote with the same intensity that characterized his music. The letters and essays collected in Judaism in Music and Other Essays were published during the 1850s and 1860s, the period when he was chiefly occupied with the creation of The Ring of the Nibelung. Highlighting this collection is the notorious 1850 article "Judaism in Music, " which caused such a firestorm that nearly twenty years later Wagner published an unapologetic appendix. Other prose pieces include "On the Performing of Tannhauser, " written while he was in political exile; "On Musical Criticism, " an appeal for a more vital approach to art undivorced from life; and "Music of the Future." This volume concludes with letters to friends about the intent and performance of his great operas; estimations of Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck, Berlioz, and others; and suggestions for the reform of opera houses in Vienna, Paris, and Zurich. The Bison Book edition includes the full text of volume 3 of William Ashton Ellis's 1894 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Book Synopsis The Wagnerian Drama by : Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Download or read book The Wagnerian Drama written by Houston Stewart Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wagnerian Drama by : Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Download or read book The Wagnerian Drama written by Houston Stewart Chamberlain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wagnerian Drama: An Attempt to Inspire a Better Appreciation of Wagner After this I shall shortly consider the works of the first period and show that they are dramas, but that their appreciation as such is impeded, partly through their Operatic form, partly through certain deviations in the application of the various means of expression. For the works of the period of fully conscious creation in a new form Of art a more detailed consideration will be necessary but here also I shall concentrate my attention only on the dramatic poet, and shall attempt to prove that Wagner with his new art-works was able and' forced to wander in new paths, and that he. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Richard Wagner by : Dieter Borchmeyer
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.
Book Synopsis Studies in the Wagnerian Drama by : Henry Edward Krehbiel
Download or read book Studies in the Wagnerian Drama written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagner was a Reformer of the Opera and a Regenerator of the Lyric Drama. To understand the real position which Richard Wagner occupies in the world of art, and to appreciate the significance of the achievements which have kept that world in a turmoil for two generations, it is necessary to guard against a very prevalent misconception touching him and his activities. The world knows him as an agitator and reformer, but it does not know as clearly as it ought that the object for which he labored as controversialist and composer was a reform of the opera, not a reform of music in general. Outside the theatre, it is true, he exerted a tremendous influence on the development of the musical art, but that influence he exerted only because he was a gifted musician who stood in the line of succession with the great ones who had widened the boundaries of music and struck out new paths for it-let me say Bach, Haydn, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann. As a legitimate successor of these Kings by the grace of Genius, he advanced the musical art indeed, but as a reformer his activities went, not to music in its absolute forms, but to an entirely distinct and complex art-form: the modern opera. The term which Wagner invented to describe what he wished to see as the outcome of his strivings-the term which his enemies parodied so successfully that the parody has clung to the popular tongue and lingered in the popular ear, in spite of all explanation-is "The Art-work of the Future." By this "Art-work" he meant a form of theatrical entertainment in which poetry, music, pantomime, painting, and the plastic arts were to co-operate on a basis of mutual dependence-or better, perhaps, interdependence-and common aim, the inspiring purpose of all being dramatic expression. In the history of music and the drama certain strongly-marked phases are found, in which the interdependence of the elements which Wagner consorts in his Art-work can be traced; and if we look at these phases a little thoughtfully, they may help us to understand the present phase, and we may learn not only how to appreciate what Wagner has done, but also how to avoid the misconceptions which so frequently stand in the way of appreciation. Know the Wagner Operas discover what's inside the Wagner Operas Only for REAL Classical Music fans 10 Unique illustrations of Wagner's Opera.
Book Synopsis The Wagnerian Drama by : Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Download or read book The Wagnerian Drama written by Houston Stewart Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wagner On Music And Drama by : Albert Goldman
Download or read book Wagner On Music And Drama written by Albert Goldman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1988-03-22 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in the Wagnerian Drama by : Henry Edward Krehbiel
Download or read book Studies in the Wagnerian Drama written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Studies in the Wagnerian Drama' is a book that requests the readers to turn their attention to Richard Wagner's theatrical works, including his operatic works. Each chapter is dedicated to what the author considers a hallmark of Wagnerian theater, which are: Tristan and Isolde, The Master-Singers of Nuremberg, The Ring of the Nibelung, and Parsifal.
Book Synopsis Studies in the Wagnerian Drama by : Henry Edward Krehbiel
Download or read book Studies in the Wagnerian Drama written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
