Life of Richard Wagner, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Spitta, Edmund Johnson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1451004710 ISBN 13 : 9781451004717

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore a detailed, contemporary view of Wagner’s world and his reception. This volume compiles critical notices, letters, and commentary from the mid-19th century to illuminate the composer’s life and influence.

In these pages, readers see how Wagner was discussed by critics, concert organizers, and fellow musicians. The book captures debates about performance style, conducting, and the evolving public image of Wagner’s works, alongside broader musical and cultural context of the era.

• Contemporary press responses to Wagner’s music and conducting.


• Comparisons with composers like Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Berlioz.


• Notes on opera performances, orchestral programs, and publication history.


• Editorial framing that helps readers place Wagner within his musical milieu.

Ideal for readers of music history, biography, and 19th‑century cultural review who want to understand how Wagner was seen in his own time, and how those views shaped his enduring legacy.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Fausfs life-weariness. Zurich String-quartet; Beethovenh op. 131. Carolyszfs Rheingold indiscretion andS chumann articles; Cornelius translator. Resuscitation of an earlier overture :F aust in solitude, noG retchen. Billow sanalysis. Thematic details ;problems of the revision. The tone-poem conducted at Zurich ;its reception elsewhere. Und so ist mir dasD asein eine Last, Dcr Tod erwunscht, das Leben mir verhasst. Goethe sF aust. The motto chosen for his revised FAUST-overture exactly pictures Wagner smood when entering the year 1855. Last November he had written Princess Carolyne Sayn-W ittgenstein: tI treally is too sad that I should have to live in this desert, cut off from you and Liszt. Whatever you may say enjoining patience, and however many grievances may weigh upon yourselves, neither do you experience nor can you form a notion of the killing solitude to which I am condemned .. .T rue, I have been pottering away at theW alkiire, but it goes much slower than I thought at first. What I draft in the end is certainly the best that lies within my power; only, with my desolate life, the moods for work come ever rarer. So long as I wrote books and turned out verses, things might go :for music And so my whole existence is awry, life hateful, and my one desire to die. tF rom a group of nine letters published in theB ayreuther Blatter ]xy 1905 ;a kind of supplement to theW agner-L iszt Correspondence. This one begins with thanks for kindness shewn toM inna at the Altenburg in October (see vol. iv, 339 et seq.). In the case of various allusions in the text above I have to assume the readers familiarity with my Introduction to the letters of Richard Wagner toM athilde Wesendonck, published (H. Grevel Co., London) in the interval between this volume and vol. iv.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1451004710
• ISBN 13: 9781451004717
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 468
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