Download or read book Richard Wagner As Poet and Thinker written by Bruce Steele and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner as poet? Yes! This hitherto unpublished study invites the reader to see Wagner's texts not just as opera librettos but as dramatic poems in their own right. An authority on German literature, Robertson offers an engaging account of the poems in the light of nineteenth-century drama and the changing currents of social and religious thought. John George Robertson was foundation professor of German Language and Literature in London University, 1903-33. He was the husband of Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. Their lifelong love of Wagner's operas, which began when they met in Leipzig as students in the 1880s, is evident in this book.
Download or read book The Poetry and Philosophy of Richard Wagner written by Zona Gale and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetry and Philosophy of Richard Wagner written by Zona Gale and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the poetic and philosophical themes in the works of Richard Wagner, a German composer and philosopher. Through a close analysis of his music dramas and writings, the author reveals the complex and nuanced ideas that underpin Wagner's artistic vision, as well as the enduring influence of his ideas on Western culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Richard Wagner as Poet written by Wolfgang Golther and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Wagner written by Ernest Newman and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Ernest Newman began to scrutinize the details of Wagner's life, a preoccupation of several decades which resulted in his monumental biography in four volumes, he wrote this extended essay on Wagner as composer and thinker. As critical an observer as Newman was to become of Wagner the man, he viewed the work of the poet and musician with the warmest of praise: "The muse of poetry seems to have dipped her wings into the lucid stream of music, disturbing it with suggestions of a world it had never reflected before, deepening its beauty by closer associations with the actual world of men. This was the brain of Wagner. There is none like him, none; it is almost safe to say there will be none like him to the end of time." -- Back cover.
Download or read book The Philosophies of Richard Wagner written by Julian Young and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to being a great composer, Richard Wagner was also an important philosopher. Julian Young begins by examining the philosophy of art and society Wagner constructs during his time as a revolutionary anarchist-communist. Modernity, Wagner argued, is to be rescued from its current anomie through the rebirth of Greek tragedy (the original Gesamtkunstwerk) in the form of the “artwork of the future," an artwork of which his own operas are the prototype. Young then examines the entirely different philosophy Wagner constructs after his 1854 conversion from Hegelian optimism to Schopenhauerian pessimism. “Redemption” now becomes, not a future utopia in this world, but rather “transfigured” existence in another world, attainable only through death. Viewing Wagner’s operas through the lens of his philosophy, the book offers often novel interpretations of Lohengrin, The Ring cycle, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, and Parsifal. Finally, Young dresses the cause of Friedrich Nietzsche’s transformation from Wagner’s intimate friend and disciple into his most savage critic. Nietzsche’s fundamental accusation, it is argued, is one of betrayal: that Wagner betrayed his early, “life affirming” philosophy of art and life in favor of “life-denial." Nietzsche’s assertion and the final conclusion of the book is that our task, now, is to “become better Wagnerians than Wagner.”
Download or read book Wagner As I Knew Him written by Ferdinand Ferdinand Praeger and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELDOM has the proverb "The child is father to the man" been more completely verified in the life of any prominent brain-worker than in that of Richard Wagner. The serious thinker of threescore, with his soul deep in his work, is the developed school-boy of thirteen lauded by his masters for unusual application and earnestness. All his defects and virtues, his affections and antipathies, can be traced to their original sources in his childhood. No great individuality was ever less influenced by misfortune or success in after-life than Wagner. The mission he felt within him and which he resolutely set himself to accomplish, he unswervingly pursued throughout the varied phases of his eventful career. Beyond contention, Richard Wagner is, I think, the greatest art personality of this century,-unequalled as a musician, great as a poet as regards the matter, moral, and mode of expression, whilst in dramatic construction a very Shakespeare.
Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Houston Stewart Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wagner and Schopenhauer written by Milton E. Brener and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most who write about Wagner’s operas claim that the works of Arthur Schopenhauer had a huge effect on them. The influence has, Brener believes, been vastly overstated. The most detailed exposition of that alleged influence is by Bryan Magee. In his Tristan Chord, Magee details the bases for what are often, by others, unsupported conclusions. Familiar with both the important writings of Schopenhauer and the works of Wagner, Brener is among the few capable of a thorough analysis and factual response to Magee’s claims. His conclusions, backed with primary sources, stands almost alone in opposition to accepted dogma.
Download or read book Richard Wagner s Prose Works written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opera and Drama written by Richard Wagner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Download or read book Richard Wagner the Man and His Work written by Oliver Huckel and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Richard Wagner s Poem the Ring of the Nibelung written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses literary and poetic rather than the musical elements of Richard Wagner's treatment of the Teutonic myth of the Nibelungs.
Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Download or read book The Ring of Truth written by Roger Scruton and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nothing in opera is grander than The Ring, no work more suited to the deep reading the writer gives here.” —Opera News Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner’s masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger Scruton brings to it in this inspiring account. The Ring of Truth is an exploration of the drama, music, symbolism, and philosophy of The Ring from a writer whose knowledge and understanding of the Western musical tradition are the equal of his capacities as a philosopher. Scruton shows how, through musical connections and brilliant dramatic strokes, Wagner is able to express truths about the human condition which few other creative artists have been able to convey so convincingly. For Wagner, writes Scruton, the task of art is to “show us freedom in its immediate, contingent, human form, reminding us of what it means to us. Even if we live in a world from which gods and heroes have disappeared we can, by imagining them, dramatize the deep truths of our condition and renew our faith in what we are.” Love, death, sacrifice and the liberation that we win through sacrifice—these are the great themes of The Ring, as they are of this book. Scruton’s passionate and moving interpretation allows us to understand more fully than ever how Wagner conveys his ideas about who we are, and why TheRing continues to be such a hypnotically absorbing work. “Scruton’s presentation is grounded throughout in a deep understanding of the culture of Wagner’s era . . . the writing is clear and persuasive.” —Library Journal (starred review) “A fascinating and valuable study.” —Sunday Times
Download or read book The Ideas of Richard Wagner written by Alan David Aberbach and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with antisemitism in ch. 7 (p. 267-308), "The Outmoded World of the Judaic-Christian Tradition." In "Das Judentum in der Musik" (1850) Wagner denied the capacity of Jews to have deep emotional feelings in music and art. Nevertheless, their financial power gave them influence in musical life. Despite the assistance he received from Jewish friends and patrons, the supposed threat posed to Germany by the Jews became an obsession for Wagner, and all his enemies were identified with the Jews. "Wagner's attitude toward Jews was remarkably inconsistent ... anti-Jewish although not necessarily anti-Semitic ..."
