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Book Wagner and the Erotic Impulse

Download or read book Wagner and the Erotic Impulse written by Laurence Dreyfus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. Daring to represent erotic stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of sexual desire, Wagner sparked intense reactions from figures like Baudelaire, Clara Schumann, Nietzsche, and Nordau, whose verbal tributes and censures disclose what was transmitted when music represented sex. Wagner himself saw the cultivation of an erotic high style as central to his art, especially after devising an anti-philosophical response to Schopenhauer’s “metaphysics of sexual love.” A reluctant eroticist, Wagner masked his personal compulsion to cross-dress in pink satin and drench himself in rose perfumes while simultaneously incorporating his silk fetish and love of floral scents into his librettos. His affection for dominant females and surprising regard for homosexual love likewise enable some striking portraits in his operas. In the end, Wagner’s achievement was to have fashioned an oeuvre which explored his sexual yearnings as much as it conveyed—as never before—how music could act on erotic impulse.

Book The Wagnerian Romances

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  • Author : Gertrude Hall Brownell
  • Publisher : London ; New York : J. Lane
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book The Wagnerian Romances written by Gertrude Hall Brownell and published by London ; New York : J. Lane. This book was released on 1907 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love

Download or read book Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love written by Barry Emslie and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emslie's study of Wagner's creativity examines the centrality of love - and its obverse, hate - to the composer's world view.

Book Wagner Without Fear

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  • Author : William Berger
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2010-06-16
  • ISBN : 0307756343
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Wagner Without Fear written by William Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you cringe when your opera-loving friends start raving about the latest production of Tristan? Do you feel faint just thinking about the six-hour performance of Parsifal you were given tickets to? Does your mate accuse you of having a Tannhäuser complex? If you're baffled by the behavior of Wagner worshipers, if you've longed to fathom the mysteries of Wagner's ever-increasing popularity, or if you just want to better understand and enjoy the performances you're attending, you'll find this delightful book indispensable. William Berger is the most helpful guide one could hope to find for navigating the strange and beautiful world of the most controversial artist who ever lived. He tells you all you need to know to become a true Wagnerite--from story lines to historical background; from when to visit the rest room to how to sound smart during intermission; from the Jewish legend that possibly inspired Lohengrin to the tragic death of the first Tristan. Funny, informative, and always a pleasure to read, Wagner Without Fear proves that the art of Wagner can be accessible to everyone. Includes: - The strange life of Richard Wagner--German patriot (and exile), friend (and enemy) of Liszt and Nietzsche - Essential opera lore and "lobby talk" - A scene-by-scene analysis of each opera - What to listen for to get the most from the music - Recommended recordings, films, and sound tracks

Book The Wagnerian Romances

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  • Author : Gertrude Hall Brownell
  • Publisher : London ; New York : J. Lane
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book The Wagnerian Romances written by Gertrude Hall Brownell and published by London ; New York : J. Lane. This book was released on 1907 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner

Download or read book The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner written by Steven Vande Moortele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.

Book The Wagnerian Romances  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Wagnerian Romances Classic Reprint written by Gertrude Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wagnerian Romances What Miss Hall does, it seems to me, is to reproduce the emotional effect of one art through the medium Of another art. This, of course, can scarcely be done in the case of a symphony or a sonata; efforts to do it are usually unsuccessful and often ludicrous. But opera is a hybrid art, -partly literary to begin with. It happens that in the Wagnerian music-drama the literary part Of the work is not trivial, as it is so Often in operas, but is truly the mate of the mus1c, done by the same hand. The music is throughout concerned with words, and with things that can be presented in language; with human beings and their passions and sorrows, and with places and with periods of time, with particular rivers and particular mountains, even; - with Nuremberg, even. All this feeling for places and the character of landscape and architecture is, in the hands of the right person, readily translatable into words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Wagnerian Romances

Download or read book The Wagnerian Romances written by Gertrude Hall Brownell and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wagner and the Romantic Hero

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  • Author : Simon Williams
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-06-24
  • ISBN : 1139451669
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Wagner and the Romantic Hero written by Simon Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few major artists have aroused the ire and adulation of successive generations as persistently as Richard Wagner. He was the centre of controversy during his lifetime and yet, when he died, he was the most idolized man in Germany. The situation has not changed much since then. Simon Williams explores the reasons for this adulation and antipathy by examining an aspect that may be a fundamental cause for this radical division in the reception of Wagner's work, the phenomenon of heroism. Williams analyses this heroism as a function of Wagner's theatre and music, beginning with a definition and examination of the concept of the heroic. The book also discusses all thirteen stage works by Wagner and the phenomenon of heroism and Wagner's adaptation of the figure of the Romantic hero. Williams offers a theatrical, musical, and cultural re-evaluation of one of the most enduring figures in the arts.

Book More Than Love

Download or read book More Than Love written by Natasha Gregson Wagner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “graceful, loving,” (The New York Times Book Review), never-before-told story of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood’s glamorous life, sudden death, and lasting legacy, written by her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner. Natasha Gregson Wagner’s mother, Natalie Wood, was a child actress who became a legendary movie star, the dark-haired beauty of Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story. She and Natasha’s stepfather, the actor Robert Wagner, were a Hollywood it-couple twice over, first in the 1950s, and then again when they remarried in the 70s. To Natasha, she was, above all, a doting, loving mom. But Natalie’s sudden death by drowning off Catalina Island at the age of forty-three devastated her family, turned Robert Wagner into a person of interest, and transformed a vibrant wife, mother, and actress into a figure of tragedy. The weekend has long been shrouded in rumors and scandalous tabloid speculation, but until now there has never been an account of how the events and their aftermath were experienced by Natalie’s beloved eldest daughter. Here, for the first time, is a“deeply intimate chronicle of life with her famous mother and how Wood’s death devastated the family” (Los Angeles Times). Cutting through the shadow hanging over her mother’s legacy, More Than Love is a “poignant” (The Washington Post) tale of a daughter coming to terms with her grief, as well as a “revealing new look at Natalie Wood” (Good Morning America).

Book Death Devoted Heart

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  • Author : Roger Scruton
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 0199986983
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Death Devoted Heart written by Roger Scruton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere trifle"--a rendering of Wagner's forbidden love for Matilde Wesendonck, the wife of a banker who supported him during his exile in Switzerland. Death-Devoted Heart explodes this established interpretation, proving the drama to be more than just a sublimation of the composer's love for Wesendonck or a wistful romantic dream. Scruton boldly attests that Tristan and Isolde has profound religious meaning and remains as relevant today as it was to Wagner's contemporaries. He also offers keen insight into the nature of erotic love, the sacred qualities of human passion, and the peculiar place of the erotic in our culture. His argument touches on the nature of tragedy, the significance of ritual sacrifice, and the meaning of redemption, providing a fresh interpretation of Wagner's masterpiece. Roger Scruton has written an original and provocative account of Wagner's music drama, which blends philosophy, criticism, and musicology in order to show the work's importance in the twenty-first century.

Book The Wagnerian Romances

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  • Author : Brownell Gertrude Hall
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2016-06-23
  • ISBN : 9781318909728
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book The Wagnerian Romances written by Brownell Gertrude Hall and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book The Wagnerian Romances

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  • Author : Gertrude Brownell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780781290968
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Wagnerian Romances written by Gertrude Brownell and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

Book The Valkyries  a Romance Founded on Wagner s Opera

Download or read book The Valkyries a Romance Founded on Wagner s Opera written by Edward Frederic Benson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Wagnerian s Midsummer Madness

Download or read book A Wagnerian s Midsummer Madness written by David Irvine and published by London : H. Grevel. This book was released on 1899 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wagnerian Romances

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  • Author : Gertrude H. Brownell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN : 9780403015153
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Wagnerian Romances written by Gertrude H. Brownell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: