Richard Wagner and His World / / ed. by Thomas S. Grey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Berger, Karol,; Botstein, Leon,; Breckbill, David,; Brendel, Franz,; Chevalley, Heinrich,; Chorley, Henry,; Cicora, Mary A.,; Comettant, Oscar,; Deaville, James,; Dujardin, Edouard,; Dwight, John Sullivan,; Fauser, Annegret,; Glümer, Claire Von,; Goehr, Lydia,; Grey, Thomas S.,; Gura, Eugen,; Hamilton, Kenneth,; Hanslick, Eduard,; Huebner, Steven,; Huysmans, J. K.,; Jenkins, Newell Sill,; King, Brendan,; Liszt, Franz,; Lobe, Johann Christian,; Mandell, Charlotte,; Mendès, Catulle,; Pohl, Richard,; Schering, Arnold,; Scudo, Paul,; Seidl, Arthur,; Syer, Katherine,; Thorau, Christian,; Trippett, David,; Vazsonyi, Nicholas,; Wagner, Richard,; Wolzogen, Hans Von,; Wyzewa, Teodor De,; Zimmermann, J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Grey, Thomas S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: The Bard Music Festival ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.) :; 24 halftones. 50 musical examples.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Part I. Essays -- From Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur -- Wagner and Liszt: Elective Affinities -- From Opera to Music Drama: Nominal Loss, Titular Gain -- Eine Kapitulation: Aristophanic Operetta as Cultural Warfare in 1870 -- A Note on Tristan's Death Wish -- Guides for Wagnerites: Leitmotifs and Wagnerian Listening -- German Jews and Wagner -- Part II. Biographical Contexts -- Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and Wagner's Dresden -- Catulle Mendès Visits Tribschen -- Recollections of Villa Wahnfried from Wagner's American Dentist -- Part III. Toward A Music Of The Future 1840-1860 -- The Overture to Tannhäuser -- Letters to a Young Composer About Wagner -- Franz Brendel's Reconciliation Address -- Part IV. Wagner and Paris -- Wagner Admires Meyerbeer (Les Huguenots) -- Debacle at the Paris Opéra: Tannhäuser and the French Critics, 1861 -- The Revue wagnérienne: Symbolism, Aestheticism, and Germanophilia -- Part V. The Bayreuth Era -- Press Releases from the Bayreuth Festival, 1876: An Early Attempt at Spin Control -- Hanslick contra Wagner: "The Ring Cycle Comes to Vienna" and "Parsifal Literature" -- Hans von Wolzogen's Parsifal (1887) -- Cosima Wagner's Bayreuth -- Part VI. The Complete Program Notes of Richard Wagner -- Wagner Introduces Wagner (and Beethoven): Program Notes Written for Concert Performances by and of Richard Wagner 1846-1880 -- Index -- Notes on the Contributors