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Richard Wagner for the New Millennium - G. Wagner - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Richard Wagner for the New Millennium - G. Wagner - Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Please note this is a ''Palgrave to Order'' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. A central concern of this study is the relationship between Wagner the artist and Wagner the social phenomenon. Many of the essays within explore the most difficult yet most crucial issue in Wagner studies: the impact of the composer''s problematic world view and complex personal life on his musical/dramatic creations.

DKK 423.00
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Richard Wagner - John Louis Digaetani - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Richard Wagner - John Louis Digaetani - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, 200 years after his birth, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities. Since World War II Wagner has often been wrongly associated with Adolf Hitler because Hitler liked Wagner''s music and used it in Nazi propaganda. But Wagner died in 1883--fifty years before Hitler''s regime. It is time to have a fresh look at Wagner''s life without the Nazi associations. His life was a series of abandonments and traumas for the self-destructive but creative genius, as he tried to survive as a freelance composer in the hostile environments of 19th century Germany.

DKK 429.00
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Richard Wagner and the Jews - Milton E. Brener - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Richard Wagner and the Jews - Milton E. Brener - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

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.

DKK 448.00
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Wagner and Suicide - John L. Digaetani - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Wagner and Suicide - John L. Digaetani - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder but in his time very little was known about mental illness, and suicide was not a topic for general discussion. Wagner was often plagued by extreme mood swings; he used his operas, especially the librettos, to express himself and his personal difficulties. This investigation of the suicidal themes in Wagner''s life and operas-- Die Fliegender Hollander, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, the Ring cycle, and Parsifal --shows how manic-depressive illness, particularly the depressive part of it, affected Wagner''s life and art. It also analyzes the influence of Giambattista Vico''s theories of cycles (and how these theories appeared in Wagner''s work), suicide as a theatrical and operatic phenomenon, and the way in which the theme of suicide has appeared in other works of the literary and performing arts.

DKK 429.00
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The Philosophies of Richard Wagner - Julian Young - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Philosophies of Richard Wagner - Julian Young - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

In addition to being a great composer, Richard Wagner was also an important philosopher. Julian Young begins by examining the philosophy of art and society Wagner constructs during his time as a revolutionary anarchist-communist. Modernity, Wagner argued, is to be rescued from its current anomie through the rebirth of Greek tragedy (the original Gesamtkunstwerk) in the form of the “artwork of the future," an artwork of which his own operas are the prototype. Young then examines the entirely different philosophy Wagner constructs after his 1854 conversion from Hegelian optimism to Schopenhauerian pessimism. “Redemption” now becomes, not a future utopia in this world, but rather “transfigured” existence in another world, attainable only through death. Viewing Wagner’s operas through the lens of his philosophy, the book offers often novel interpretations of Lohengrin, The Ring cycle, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, and Parsifal. Finally, Young dresses the cause of Friedrich Nietzsche’s transformation from Wagner’s intimate friend and disciple into his most savage critic. Nietzsche’s fundamental accusation, it is argued, is one of betrayal: that Wagner betrayed his early, “life affirming” philosophy of art and life in favor of “life-denial." Nietzsche’s assertion and the final conclusion of the book is that our task, now, is to “become better Wagnerians than Wagner.”

DKK 423.00
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Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wagner''s Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What Nietzsche called the ''sweet and terrible infinity'' of its basic nexus of longing and death has fascinated audiences since its first performance in 1865. At the same time, its advanced harmonic language, immediately announced by the opening ''Tristan chord'', marks a defining moment in the evolution of modern music. This accessible handbook brings together seven leading international writers to discuss the opera''s genesis and the libretto''s relationship to late Romantic literary concerns, present an analysis of the Prelude, the music of the drama itself, and Wagner''s innovative use of instrumental timbre, and illustrate the production history and reception of the music-drama into the twenty-first century. The book includes the first English translation of Wagner''s draft prose of the libretto, a detailed discussion of Wagner''s orchestration, and rare pictures from important and influential productions.

DKK 759.00
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Drama and the World of Richard Wagner - Dieter Borchmeyer - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

Drama and the World of Richard Wagner - Dieter Borchmeyer - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

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.

DKK 653.00
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Wagner Outside the""Ring - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Wagner Outside the""Ring - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Designed as a companion volume to 2006''s Inside the Ring, which focused on the four operas comprising Richard Wagner''s Der Ring des Nibelungen, this new volume features more than a dozen original essays focusing on all of Wagner''s non- Ring operas. Part One looks at the individual operas, including Der Fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, and Parsifal. Part Two reveals the connections between Wagnerian opera and other arts, including dance, filmmaking, and fiction. Finally, Part Three examines Wagner''s operas in performance, featuring interviews with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung and heldentenor Ben Heppner, both well-known for their Wagnerian performances. The book includes many photographs from current productions by the Metropolitan Opera and other opera companies, along with bibliographies and a discography of recommended performances.

DKK 523.00
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