{"product_id":"pilgrimage-to-beethoven-and-other-essays","title":"Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays","description":"\"Saint Beethoven!. . . . He was clad in somewhat untidy houseclothes, with a red woolen scarf wrapped round his waist; long, bushy grey hair hung in disorder from his head, and his gloomy, forbidding expression by no means tended to reassure. . . .\" \u003cp\u003eWhen Wagner published the first collection of his writings he was pleased to admit how well he wrote, even when young. Historians and musicians ever since have agreed that some of his most important and revelatory works were written when he was first establishing his reputation in Paris and Dresden. \u003ci\u003ePilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e provides translations of the first two volumes of his \u003ci\u003eGesammelte Schriften\u003c\/i\u003e (1871-1873). These works reveal how committed he was to emphasizing Germanic qualities in his music and define his opposition to the music of France and Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his influential essay on Beethoven's \u003ci\u003eNinth Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e, this volume includes two early essays on Germanic myth—\"The Wibelungen\" and \"The Nibelungen-Myth\"—his homages to Carl Maria von Weber, and the complete text of his autobiographical \u003ci\u003eA German Musician in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, with its famous \"Pilgrimage to Beethoven.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume concludes with his \"Plan of Organisation of a German National Theatre\" (1849), founded upon Beethoven's moral music. Listeners \"inspired by Beethoven's music have been more active and energetic citizens-of-State than those bewitched by Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti.\" Throughout these essays, as throughout his life, Wagner knew how to provoke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes the complete volume 7 of the 1898 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54242123252056,"sku":"9780803297630","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780803297630_cc7d1867-58dc-42f0-951a-1b3da6f714c7.jpg?v=1780112761","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pilgrimage-to-beethoven-and-other-essays","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}