Wagner And His Works The Story Of His Life With Critical Comments Volume Two

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Wagner and the Erotic Impulse

Author : Laurence Dreyfus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674018818
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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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.

Wagner and His Works: The Story of His Life with Critical Comments (Volume Two)

Author : Henry Theophilus Finck
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1410216284
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Wagner and His Works: The Story of His Life with Critical Comments (Volume Two) written by Henry Theophilus Finck and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and provocative study of the great composer and his works. Mr. Finck's established reputation as a musical scholar, thorough familiarity with Wagner literature, and interesting style, give his book a marked and permanent value. It is the result of many years' special study, and is both a full review of Wagner's life, the dramatic episodes of which are treated with unusual fullness, and a summary and critical analysis of the musical and poetic contents of his writings, rich in anecdote and apposite quotation. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.

Wagnerism

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944544
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Wagnerism written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.

Wagner and His Works

Author : Henry T. Finck
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagner and His Works written by Henry T. Finck and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1968 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Looker-on

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Wagner and His Work the Story of His Life with Critical Comments

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Publisher : Ardent Media
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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book Wagner and His Work the Story of His Life with Critical Comments written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Illustrated Catalogue and Classified Book List of the Northwestern Library Association ...

Author : Northwestern Library Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue and Classified Book List of the Northwestern Library Association ... written by Northwestern Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wagner and His Works

Author : Henry Theophilus Finck
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wagner and His Works written by Henry Theophilus Finck and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Richard Wagner

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135839530
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer.

Book News

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Book News written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book Buyer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book The Book Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nation

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Author : George Grove
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by George Grove and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Literary World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dial

Author : Francis Fisher Browne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Athenaeum

Author : James Silk Buckingham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Empty Chair

Author : Bruce Wagner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101630744
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Empty Chair written by Bruce Wagner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed of two companion novellas, The Empty Chair is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of spiritual storytelling from Bruce Wagner, the internationally acclaimed author of such novels as Dead Stars, I’m Losing You and Force Majeure. In First Guru, a fictional Wagner narrates the tale of a Buddhist living in Big Sur, who achieves enlightenment in the horrific aftermath of his child’s suicide. In Second Guru, Queenie, an aging wild child, returns to India to complete the spiritual journey of her youth. Told in ravaged, sensuous detail to the author-narrator by two strangers on opposite sides of the country, years apart from each other, both stories illuminate the random, chaotic nature of human suffering and the miraculous strength of the human spirit. A deeply affecting and meditative reading experience, The Empty Chair is an exquisitely rendered, thought-provoking, and humbling new work.