Wagner and the Art of the Theatre

Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
Title Wagner and the Art of the Theatre PDF eBook
Author Patrick Carnegy
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 492
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 9780300106954

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Chapitre 6, p. 175-207, consacré à Adolphe Appia.

Drama and the World of Richard Wagner

Drama and the World of Richard Wagner
Title Drama and the World of Richard Wagner PDF eBook
Author Dieter Borchmeyer
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 430
Release 2003-11-30
Genre Music
ISBN 9780691114972

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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.

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner
Title Richard Wagner PDF eBook
Author Dieter Borchmeyer
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 423
Release 1991
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780193153226

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Richard Wagner has come to be seen as the quintessential artist of the nineteenth century, whose work embraces all the arts of the period. Dieter Borchmeyer here provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of Wagner's aesthetic theory, examining his hitherto neglected prosewritings and his ideas on music drama from the various standpoints of literature, the linking of ideas, and the sociology of art. The pre-eminent importance for Wagner of classical Greek art and mythology emerges with particular clarity, while his links with the great figures and forms of worldtheatre - Shakespeare, the commedia dell'arte, the popular theatre, and the puppet theatre - are traced in detail. The influence on Wagner of the historical and social novel is also discussed. The author provides the first comprehensive analysis of Cosima Wagner's Diaries, and throws unexpectedsidelights on Wagner's relationship with Nietzsche, in particular his important contribution to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. Central to the present study are Wagner's music dramas from Die Feen to Parsifal. These are examined in their literary, ideological, and socio-political contexts (including the problem of anti-Semitism). First published in German in 1982, this book has become established as a standard work ofWagner scholarship, and now appears for the first time in English in a completely revised edition incorporating a number of new chapters on the music dramas.

Wagner On Music And Drama

Wagner On Music And Drama
Title Wagner On Music And Drama PDF eBook
Author Albert Goldman
Publisher Da Capo Press
Pages 447
Release 1988-03-22
Genre Music
ISBN 9780306803192

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Opera and Drama

Opera and Drama
Title Opera and Drama PDF eBook
Author Richard Wagner
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 444
Release 1995-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 9780803297654

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With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.

Richard Wagner's Prose Works

Richard Wagner's Prose Works
Title Richard Wagner's Prose Works PDF eBook
Author Richard Wagner
Publisher
Pages 456
Release 1894
Genre Music
ISBN

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Bayreuth

Bayreuth
Title Bayreuth PDF eBook
Author Frederic Spotts
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 348
Release 1994-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 9780300066654

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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