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Download or read book Bayreuth written by Frederic Spotts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overall account of the history of the Wagner festival, a critical analysis of its performers, productions, and enthusiasts establishes its remarkable beginnings, controversial associations, and surprising successes
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.
Book Synopsis Winifred Wagner by : Brigitte Hamann
Download or read book Winifred Wagner written by Brigitte Hamann and published by Granta Books (Uk). This book was released on 2005 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously untapped sources, this book presents a portrait of an extraordinary woman, as well as revealing glimpses of the 'private Hitler', offering the best insight yet into his relationship with Bayreuth and its central place in twentieth-century German history.
Book Synopsis The Story of Bayreuth as Told in the Bayreuth Letters of Richard Wagner by : Richard Wagner
Download or read book The Story of Bayreuth as Told in the Bayreuth Letters of Richard Wagner written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bayreuth of Wagner by : John P. Jackson
Download or read book The Bayreuth of Wagner written by John P. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sorcerer of Bayreuth by : Barry Millington
Download or read book The Sorcerer of Bayreuth written by Barry Millington and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of Wagner's music to enchant, to cast a spell, to transport the listener to states of hedonistic delight, has often been remarked - sometimes appreciatively and sometimes not. Indeed, no other composer arouses such fiercely divergent responses as Richard Wagner. For Baudelaire,Wagner's music induced a feeling of being engulfed, intoxicated. For Nietzsche, Wagner was like a disease: "Everything he touches falls sick."In The Sorcerer of Bayreuth, Barry Millington, a leading authority on Wagner, presents an engaging, accessibly written overview of the life and works one of the world's most influential and controversial composers. This richly illustrated book considers a wide range of themes, including Wagner'soriginal sources of inspiration; his compositional process; his relationship with his wife, Cosima, and with his mistress, Mathilde Wesendonck; his perplexing ideology; the anti-Semitism that is undeniably present in the operas; their proto-cinematic nature; and the turbulent legacy both of theBayreuth Festival and of Wagnerism itself.Millington illuminates these issues in a series of chapters, each exploring a theme through text, illustrations, and documents in elegantly designed spreads, thus avoiding the conventional formats of illustrated biography and documentary study. The results are often surprising. Drawing on the verylatest biographical and musicological scholarship - much of it undertaken by the author himself - Millington reassesses received notions about both Wagner's life and his music, demolishing tired cliches and ill-informed opinion in favor of proper critical understanding.Marking the bicentenary of the birth of Richard Wagner, The Sorcerer of Bayreuth offers readers a fascinating reappraisal of this most provocative of composers and the incomparable music he made.
Book Synopsis Wagner Rehearsing the 'Ring' by : Heinrich Porges
Download or read book Wagner Rehearsing the 'Ring' written by Heinrich Porges and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porges conscientious record shows 'amazing insight and perception' since what distinguishes it is his 'ability to always locate the endless detail of Wagner's instructions in an overall intellectual context'. The book is therefore required reading not only for conductors, producers, instrumentalists and singers but also for musicologists and critics.
Book Synopsis The Sorcerer of Bayreuth by : Barry Millington
Download or read book The Sorcerer of Bayreuth written by Barry Millington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of Wagner's life, work and times. It considers a wide range of themes, including the composer's original sources of inspiration; his fetish for exotic silks; his relationship with his wife, Cosima, and with his mistress, Mathilde Wesendonck; the anti-semitism that is undeniably present in the operas; their proto-cinematic nature; and the turbulent legacy both of the Bayreuth Festival and of Wagnerism itself. Making use of the very latest scholarship - much of it undertaken by the author himself in connection with his editorship of The Wagner Journal - Millington reassesses received notions about Wagner and his work, demolishing ill-informed opinion in favour of proper critical understanding. It is a radical - and occasionally controversial - reappraisal of this most perplexing of composers. The volume's arrangement - unique among books on the composer -combines an accessible text, intriguing images and original documents, thus ensuring a consistently fresh approach. Bringing new insights to an endlessly fascinating subject, The Sorcerer of Bayreuth will charm anyone interested in music and in the wider cultural life of the 19th century and beyond.
Book Synopsis The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth by : Albert Lavignac
Download or read book The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth written by Albert Lavignac and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel by : Karl Heckel
Download or read book Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel written by Karl Heckel and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wagner At Bayreuth by : Geoffrey Skelton
Download or read book Wagner At Bayreuth written by Geoffrey Skelton and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth by : Albert Lavignac
Download or read book The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth written by Albert Lavignac and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner by : Richard Wagner
Download or read book Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Winifred Wagner by : Brigitte Hamann
Download or read book Winifred Wagner written by Brigitte Hamann and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Book Synopsis Wieland Wagner: the Positive Sceptic by : Geoffrey Skelton
Download or read book Wieland Wagner: the Positive Sceptic written by Geoffrey Skelton and published by Orion. This book was released on 1971 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wagner, Bayreuth, and the Festival Plays by : Frances A. Gerard
Download or read book Wagner, Bayreuth, and the Festival Plays written by Frances A. Gerard and published by London : Jarrold. This book was released on 1901 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wagner in Performance by : Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Download or read book Wagner in Performance written by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, addressed to both specialists and the opera-going public, brings together a team of acknowledged authorities from round the world to examine the performance history and reception of Wagner's works in Europe and America. A connected sequence of essays on conducting, singing, production and stage design explores the nature of Wagner's demands on his interpreters. The book raises questions about the realization of opera on the stage: about the authority of the composer vis-a-vis the director and the audience: about the sanctity of the text, score and stage directions; and about the role of art itself in society.