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


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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Author : Richard Wagner
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Release : 2014
File : Pages
ISBN-13 : 1139940554


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 : 9781108078528


Being Wagner

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Simon Callow, the celebrated author of Orson Welles, delivers a dazzling, swift, and accessible biography of the musical titan Richard Wagner and his profoundly problematic legacy--a fresh take for seasoned acolytes and the perfect introduction for new fans. Richard Wagner's music dramas have never been more popular or more divisive. His ten masterpieces, created against the backdrop of a continent in severe political and cultural upheaval, constitute an unmatched body of work. A man who spent most of his life in abject poverty, inspiring both critical derision and hysterical hero-worship, Wagner was a walking contradiction: belligerent, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, demanding, visionary, and poisonously anti-Semitic. Acclaimed biographer Simon Callow evokes the intellectual and artistic climate in which Wagner lived and takes us through his most iconic works, from his pivotal successes in The Flying Dutchman and Lohengrin, to the musical paradigm shift contained in Tristan and Isolde, to the apogee of his achievements in The Ring of the Nibelung and Parsifal, which debuted at Bayreuth shortly before his death. Being Wagner brings to life this towering figure, creator of the most sublime and most controversial body of work ever known.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Vintage
Release : 2018-02-06
File : 138 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780525436195


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


Re Reading Wagner

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This multidisciplinary collection of readings offers suggestive new interpretations of Richard Wagner's ideological position in German history. The issues discussed range from the biographical--the reasons for Wagner's travels, his spotted political life--to the aesthetic and ideological, regarding his re-creation of medieval Nuremberg, his representations of gender and nationality, his vocal iconography, his anti-Semitism, and his vegetarianarguments, and, finally, his musical heirs. The essays are written by Tamara S. Evans, Edward R. Haymes, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Peter Morris-Keitel, Alexa Larson-Thorisch, Audrius Dundzila, Marc A. Weiner, Jost Hermand, Frank Trommler, and Hans Rudolf Vaget. Avoiding journalistic or iconoclastic approaches to Wagner, these writers depart from the usual uncritical admiration of earlier scholars to develop a stimulating and ultimately cohesive collection of new perspectives.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Reinhold Grimm
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release : 1993
File : 184 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0299970760


Wagner And Venice

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Explores Wagner's lengthy stays in Venice, his death there, and the meaning of his works -- and his death -- for that great city and its mystique.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : John W. Barker
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Release : 2008
File : 460 Pages
ISBN-13 : 158046288X


The Life Of Richard Wagner

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Newman's Life of Wagner, published between 1933 and 1947, the culmination of forty years' research, is a classic biography.

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Genre : Music
Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2014-03-20
File : 571 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108007696


Richard Wagner Der Fliegende Holl Nder

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An opera handbook on one of Richard Wagner's most popular operatic masterpieces.

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Genre : Music
Author : Thomas S. Grey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2000-10-12
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521587638