Alfred Hertz
Battle of Leipzig
Bayreuth
Bayreuth Festival
Bedeutung
Boris Godunov (opera)
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Claudio Magris
Composer
Cosima Wagner
Critical edition (opera)
Dante Symphony
Das Rheingold
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Der Vampyr
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Die Musik
Don Giovanni
Eduard Hanslick
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Erik (The Phantom of the Opera)
Faust Overture
Fra Diavolo (opera)
Franz Liszt
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Schiller
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giuseppe Verdi
Grand opera
Gustav Mahler
Hans Richter (conductor)
Hans Sachs
Hans von Wolzogen
Hector Berlioz
Heinrich Ehrlich
Heinrich Schenker
Heinrich Vogl
Henry Chorley
Israeli Opera
Italian opera
Josef Hoffmann
Joseph Weigl
Kraus (musician)
La sonnambula
Libretto
Lohengrin (opera)
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Ludwig van Beethoven
Metropolitan Opera
Music of Germany
Musicology
Opera
Opera and Drama
Orchestra
Orchestra Rehearsal
Orchestration
Parsifal
Richard Wagner
Robert Schumann
Romanticism
Royal Opera House
Sebastian Bach
Siegfried Wagner
Symphonic poem
Symphonic poems (Liszt)
Symphony in C (Stravinsky)
The Case of Wagner
Theodore Thomas (conductor)
Tristan und Isolde
Wagnerism
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Product details
- ISBN 9780691143668
- Weight: 85g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 16 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories. Wagner and His World examines his works in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Seven original essays investigate such topics as music drama in light of rituals of naming in the composer's works and the politics of genre; the role of leitmotif in Wagner's reception; the urge for extinction in Tristan und Isolde as psychology and symbol; Wagner as his own stage director; his conflicted relationship with pianist-composer Franz Liszt; the anti-French satire Eine Kapitulation in the context of the Franco-Prussian War; and responses of Jewish writers and musicians to Wagner's anti-Semitism. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Karol Berger, Leon Botstein, Lydia Goehr, Kenneth Hamilton, Katherine Syer, and Christian Thorau.
This book also includes translations of essays, reviews, and memoirs by champions and detractors of Wagner; glimpses into his domestic sphere in Tribschen and Bayreuth; and all of Wagner's program notes to his own works. Introductions and annotations are provided by the editor and David Breckbill, Mary A. Cicora, James Deaville, Annegret Fauser, Steven Huebner, David Trippett, and Nicholas Vazsonyi.
Thomas S. Grey is professor of music at Stanford University. His books include "Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts" and "The Cambridge Companion to Wagner".
