Richard Wagner

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This major new biography of Richard Wagner is iconoclastic, astringent and bold. It explores the philosophical roots of Wagner's work, which the composer himself deliberately obfuscated. It re-evaluates Wagner's relationships with his mother, step-father and - most revealingly - his wife, Cosima, standing received opinion on its head. And he meets head on, and confirms, the controversy over Wagner's anti-semitism. At the same time, and notwithstanding, Kohler profoundly acknowledges Wagner's genius.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Joachim Köhler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release : 2004-01-01
File : 726 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0300104227


Revival Life Of Richard Wagner Vol Iv 1904

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Fourth volume of Carl Francis Glasenapp's Life of Richard Wagner.

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Genre : Music
Author : Carl Francis Glasenapp
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2018-04-20
File : 463 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351341790


Hans Von B Low

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A detailed study of the life of one of the most important and influential musical figures of the nineteenth century.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Kenneth Birkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2011-07-07
File : 735 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781107005860


Richard Wagner And The English

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Wagner was more than a composer--he was a cultural phenomenon. The author seeks to explain this phenomenon. One claim is that Wagner's music dramas served to provide encouragement and inspiration to Victorians struggling with the problems of a changing and challenging era. Intellectual developments (including the theories of Charles Darwin and the impact of historical scholarship on Biblical studies) had struck a severe blow against religious orthodoxy. Thus, the English strove to retain their inherited or instinctive beliefs and at the same time to accept the conclusions of natural and social science. Frustrated by the academic arguments, many persons turned to less intellectual substitutes, including Wagnerism. Almost all of Wagner's plots involve some form of redemption and hunger for the infinite. The author also claims that Wagnerism drew on the Victorian need for social justice, and points out that just as many Wagnerians sought emancipation from confining materialist philosophies or simply delighted in sexual liberation.

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Genre : England
Author : Anne Dzamba Sessa
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release : 1979
File : 206 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0838620558


Opera

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This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of operas in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers, composers, librettists, and conductors. Fully indexed and with a bibliography.

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Genre : Music
Author : Franklin Mesa
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2013-07-09
File : 477 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780786477289


Symphonies Under The Stars

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Genre : Concert programs
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Release : 1941
File : 604 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433075620082


A Short History Of Opera

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When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day. A Short History of Opera examines not only the standard performance repertoire, but also works considered important for the genre's development. Its expanded scope investigates opera from Eastern European countries and Finland. The section on twentieth-century opera has been reorganized around national operatic traditions including a chapter devoted solely to opera in the United States, which incorporates material on the American musical and ties between classical opera and popular musical theater. A separate section on Chinese opera is also included. With an extensive multilanguage bibliography, more than one hundred musical examples, and stage illustrations, this authoritative one-volume survey will be invaluable to students and serious opera buffs. New fans will also find it highly accessible and informative. Extremely thorough in its coverage, A Short History of Opera is now more than ever the book to turn to for anyone who wants to know about the history of this art form.

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Genre : Music
Author : Donald J. Grout
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release : 2003-07-18
File : 1047 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780231507721


Music Books On Music And Sound Recordings

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Genre : Music
Author : Library of Congress
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Release : 1989
File : 760 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015054490506


The Athenaeum

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Genre : England
Author :
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Release : 1865
File : 832 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:C3470627


Catalog Of Copyright Entries

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Genre : Copyright
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Release : 1964
File : 1156 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105006357565