Minna Wagner

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This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as a self-assured woman and artist who was vital to her husband's creative life.

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Genre : Composers
Author : Eva Rieger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Release : 2022
File : 377 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781648250453


Richard To Minna Wagner

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This 1909 English translation of 270 letters from Wagner to his long-suffering first wife contains a wealth of biographical detail.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2014-10-02
File : 425 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108078511


Wagner And His Works

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Author : Henry T. Finck
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Release : 1896
File : 496 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCI:31970006136953


Richard Wagner

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Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer.

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Genre : Art
Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2010-06-10
File : 478 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135839536


Life Of Richard Wagner Volume 1 1813 1848

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From renowned music critic and musicologist Ernest Newman comes the first of four volumes chronicling the life of legendary German composer Richard Wagner. This first volume takes us through the early years of Richard’s life: his birth in Leipzig; his childhood in Dresden and the sparks of his interest in music, opera, and theater; his musical education, including his studies at University of Leipzig; his early career, accompanied by his first compositions and first money troubles; and his six years spent in Dresden, including his involvement in left-wing politics. Originally published between 1933 and 1947, Newman’s The Life of Richard Wagner, Volumes I-IV remains a classic work of biography. The culmination of forty years' research on the composer and his works, these books present a detailed portrait of perhaps the most influential, the most controversial and the most frequently reviled composer in the whole history of western music. Newman was aware that no biography can ever claim to be complete or completely accurate: “The biographer can at no stage hope to have reached the final truth. All he can do is to make sure that whatever statement he may make, whatever conclusion he may come to, shall be based on the whole of the evidence available at the time of writing.” In this aim he triumphantly succeeds.

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Genre : Music
Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Knopf
Release : 2013-08-14
File : 396 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780804150460


Richard Wagner And The Jews

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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.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Milton E. Brener
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2015-01-27
File : 344 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780786491384


La Traviata

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Genre : Music
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Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Release : 2000-04
File : 55 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780967397399


Richard Wagner

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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.

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Genre : Music
Author : John Louis DiGaetani
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2014-01-02
File : 229 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780786445448


Intelligence

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Release : 1897
File : 534 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HNUY93


Metaphysical Magazine

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Genre : Parapsychology
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Release : 1898
File : 868 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015074624969