Download or read book Beethoven written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wagner and Beethoven written by Klaus Kropfinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the lifelong impact of Beethoven's music on Wagner and its importance for his conception of music drama. Kropfinger charts and scrutinizes Wagner's early responses to the composer and considers his experience as a conductor of Beethoven's music. A discussion of the Romantic "Beethoven image" leads to a careful study of Wagner's aesthetic writings, including his "programmatic explanations," the text "Concerning Franz Liszt's symphonic poems," and his Beethoven centenary essay. The penultimate chapter addresses Wagner's theory and practice of music drama, which he came to regard as the preordained successor to the Beethoven symphony. By analyzing special terms--such as "Leitmotiv"--Wagner's structural view of musical drama comes to the fore; it is a view that deepens not only our understanding of musical drama as a "hybrid" genre of art but also of purely musical structure and forms that Wagner sought to outdo.
Download or read book Beethoven written by Richard Wagner and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time. He was particularly instrumental in the transition from the Classic to the Romantic. He was born in Germany but lived from his early twenties in Vienna. There he studied under Haydn and became recognized for his prodigious talents. Though Beethoven declined into deafness from his twenties, he continued to compose, perform and conduct, even after he had lost all hearing.
Download or read book Richard Wagner s Beethoven 1870 written by Richard Wagner and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enormous and accelerating worldwide interest in Wagner leading to the bicentenary of his birth in 2013, his prose writings have received scant scholarly attention. Wagner's book-length essay on Beethoven, written to celebrate the centenary of Beethoven's birth in 1870, is really about Wagner himself rather than Beethoven. It is generally regarded as the principal aesthetic statement of the composer's later years, representing a reassessment of the ideas of the earlier Zurich writings, especially Oper und Drama, in the light of the experience gained through the composition of Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von N rnberg and the greater part of Der Ring des Nibelungen. It contains Wagner's most complete exegesis of his understanding of Schopenhauer's philosophy and its perceived influence on the compositional practice of his later works. The essay also influenced the young Nietzsche. It is an essential text in the teaching of not only Wagnerian thought but also late nineteenth-century musical aesthetics in general. Until now the English reader with no access to the German original has been obliged to work from two Victorian translations. This brand new edition gives the German original and the newly translated English text on facing pages. It comes along with a substantial introduction placing the essay not only within the wider historical and intellectual context of Wagner's later thought but also in the political context of the establishment of the German Empire in the 1870s. The translation is annotated throughout with a full bibliography. Richard Wagner's Beethoven will be indispensable reading for historians and musicologists as well as those interested in Wagner's philosophy and the aesthetics of music. ROGER ALLEN is Fellow and Tutor in Music at St Peter's College, Oxford.
Download or read book Beethoven written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beethoven written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays written by Richard Wagner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Saint Beethoven!. . . . He was clad in somewhat untidy houseclothes, with a red woolen scarf wrapped round his waist; long, bushy grey hair hung in disorder from his head, and his gloomy, forbidding expression by no means tended to reassure. . . ." When Wagner published the first collection of his writings he was pleased to admit how well he wrote, even when young. Historians and musicians ever since have agreed that some of his most important and revelatory works were written when he was first establishing his reputation in Paris and Dresden. Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays provides translations of the first two volumes of his Gesammelte Schriften (1871-1873). These works reveal how committed he was to emphasizing Germanic qualities in his music and define his opposition to the music of France and Italy. In addition to his influential essay on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, this volume includes two early essays on Germanic myth—"The Wibelungen" and "The Nibelungen-Myth"—his homages to Carl Maria von Weber, and the complete text of his autobiographical A German Musician in Paris, with its famous "Pilgrimage to Beethoven." The volume concludes with his "Plan of Organisation of a German National Theatre" (1849), founded upon Beethoven's moral music. Listeners "inspired by Beethoven's music have been more active and energetic citizens-of-State than those bewitched by Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti." Throughout these essays, as throughout his life, Wagner knew how to provoke. This edition includes the complete volume 7 of the 1898 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Download or read book A Pilgrimage to Beethoven microform written by Richard Wagner and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Beethoven written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner (1813-1883) zahlt zu den herausragendsten Komponisten der Welt uberhaupt und gilt aufgrund seiner musikalischen Interpretationen als ein Erneuerer der europaischen Musiklandschaft. Er fuhlte eine enge Verbindung zu Ludwig van Beethoven, da eben sein Werk fur die Entscheidung verantwortlich war, sich der Musik zuzuwenden. Das vorliegende Werk ist eine Hommage an den deutschen Kunstler und erschien zu seinem einhundersten Geburtsjahr 1870. Es handelt sich hierbei um die englische Ubersetzung der deutschen Originalfassung.
Download or read book Beethoven A Character Study Together With Wagner s Indebtedness To Beethoven written by George Alexander Fischer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beethoven, A Character Study Together with Wagner's Indebtedness to Beethoven” explores the personality and biography of the well-known German musician Ludwig van Beethoven. Fischer's study, which was published in 1880, attempts to offer readers a better understanding of Beethoven's character, creative disposition, and the influence of his masterpieces on the music industry. The book delves deeply into Beethoven's impact on musicians of all kinds, especially Richard Wagner, in addition to examining his biography. In his analysis of Wagner's debt to Beethoven, Fischer highlights how the composer's inventive and ground-breaking approach to music had a lasting influence on Wagner's compositions and ideas. Fischer probably goes into detail on the composer's hardships, such as his hearing loss, which started in his late 20s, and how he surmounted hardship to write a number of the most famous and cutting-edge pieces in the history of classical music.
Download or read book Music in Goethe s Faust written by Lorraine Byrne Bodley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century, hashad a seminal impact in musical realms.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music written by Christopher R. Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 1289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors' lines of enquiry extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the UK and USA. The range of genres surveyed by the book's team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare's ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts"--
Download or read book Beethoven Classic Reprint written by Richard Wagner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beethoven Cf; feinerfeité gur %eier beß ßnnbertjäßrigen (R)ebnrtßtageé nnfereé großen %eetboben Beigntragen, unb wählte, ba ibm ßierg'n feine anbere' biefer %eier ibm innrbig bnnfenbe %er anlafinng geboten war, eine {chriftficbe 2inßfiißrnng {einer (c)ebanfen über bie %ebentnngßer %eetß o en'i en 9jinfif' wie fie ibm aufgegangen. Fi>ie C{yorm ber hieran? entftanbenen Qlßßaanng fam ibm bnrcß bie %orfteflnng an, er {ei gur Qißßaltnng einer C{ eftrebe Bei einer ibeaien %eier beß großen 9jinfiferß Berufen, Ivoßei ibm, ba in qbirfiicbfeit biefe rebe nicht 511 halten war, für bie (R)ariegnng {einer @5ebanfen ber $ortbeil einer großeren Qinßfnbriicßfeit an gut fam, aiq biefe Bei einem $ortrage bor einem mirflicf)en 9inbitorinm erlanßt gerne1'en wäre. Inarb ibm bierbnrcb möglieb, ben 53efer bnrcf) eine tiefer gebent>e Unterincbnng beß qbefenß ber )jinfif 511 geieiten, unb bem 9iacbbenfen beß ernftlicb (R)eßiibeten anf biefem %ege einen %eitrag gur $ßilofopßie ber E))infif an liefern, al? Inecer bie bor[iegenbe eßeit einerfeitß angefeßentoerben moge, toabrenb anbrerfeitß bie anaßme' fie toerbe toirllicb an einem ßeftimmten $age biefeß fo ungemein Beben tungébollen Siaßreß vor einer beutfcben 8ußörerfebaft alé 8'iebe Dorgetragen' eine warme %egugnalpne auf bie erbeßenben C$r eignifie biefer Seit nal)e legte. Qbie e5 bem %erfaffer moglieb mar unter ben unmittelbaren @inbruclen bief er @reigniff e {eine ?lrßeit g, u enttoerfen unb außgufiilnen, moge fie bemnacb fiel) auch biefeé $ortßeilß erfreuen, ber großeren C$rregung beé beutfcben (R)emutßeé auch eine innigere %erußrung mit ber fäiiefe be? beutfrben (R)eifte? ermoglicbt gu haben, alß im getoölmlicben nationalen @alfinleßen bie1} gelingen burfte. 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.
Download or read book Wagner Schumann and the Lessons of Beethoven s Ninth written by Christopher Alan Reynolds and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reynolds shows that the stylistic advances made by Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann in 1845-46 stemmed from a deepened understanding of Beethoven's techniques and strategies in the Ninth Symphony, particularly the use of counterpoint involving contrary motion. The trail of influences that Reynolds explores extends back to the music of Bach and ahead to Tristan and Isolde, as well as to Brahms's First Symphony."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Analyzing Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner explores the latest developments in opera analysis by considering, side by side, the works of the two greatest opera composers of the nineteenth century. Although the juxtaposition is not new, comparative studies have tended to view these masters as radically different both as musicians and as musical dramatists. Wagner and his "symphonic opera" set against Verdi "the melodist" is one of many familiar antitheses, and it serves to highlight the particular terms from which comparisons are often made. In this book some of the leading and most innovative music scholars challenge this view, suggesting that as we become more distant from the nineteenth century, we may see that Verdi and Wagner confronted largely similar problems, and even on occasion found similar solutions. But more than this, Analyzing Opera sets out to demonstrate the richness and variety of modern analytical approaches to the genre. As the editors point out in their introduction, today's musical scholars increasingly question the usefulness of organicist theories in analytical studies, and, as they do so, opera seems to become an ever more central area of investigation. Opera is peculiar: its clash of verbal, musical, and visual systems can produce incongruities and extravagant miscalculations. It invites a multiplicity of approaches, challenges orthodoxy, and embraces ambiguity. The sheer variety of essays presented here is witness to this fact and suggests that analyzing opera is one of the liveliest (and most polemical) areas in modern-day musical scholarship. Contributors: Philip Gossett, John Deathridge, James A. Hepokoski, Joseph Kerman, Thomas S. Grey, Matthew Brown, Anthony Newcomb, Martin Chusid, David Lawton, and Patrick McCreless. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Download or read book A Pilgrimage to Beethoven written by Richard Wagner and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 A Pilgrimage to Beethoven written by Richard Wagner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few persons are aware that Richard Wagner devoted himself to Belles Lettres. The present little novel, selected as a type of his literary productions, is a rare story, and gives, under the guise of a mythical conversation with Beethoven, Wagner's own views of musical art, thus affording a deep insight into his intellectual workshop. -Book Reviews: A Monthly Journal Devoted to New and Current Publications, Volume 4 This amusing little novelette, the most beautiful of those which Wagner wrote when he needed to call upon his pen to eke out his meagre support in Paris, as Dr. Carus tells us in the Preface he has affixed to this translation of it, has been published in very neat form by the Open Court Co. The translation is good. A fine photogravure of Beethoven faces the title-page. Altogether it is an attractive booklet, which will be an acceptable gift to all who can say they ''believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven." Apart from the interest of its association with the two greatest masters of musical composition of our century, however, the intrinsic literary quality of the novelette should be enough to give it a hearty welcome in its English form. -The Presbyterian and Reformed Review, Volume 10
