Discusses the German composer's personal life, musical career, and musical legacy.
This book shows nineteenth-century German opera’s entanglement with national identity formation, adding a significant perspective to discussions about Wagner’s relation to German nationalism by interpreting his esthetic endeavors as a ...
Weber was still less con®dent with her, uncertain how to portray a sympathetic, oppressed woman who nevertheless stands in the lovers' way. There is greater assurance with Rudolf, who is more introspective by nature than the general run ...
... und wie dort eine ungeschränkte Freiheit für die Befriedigung des tonischen Ausdruckes das zwischen zartesten Gesetzen schwankende Maass der Bewegung angab , wird hier durch die feste Rhythmik der figurativ geschmückten Begleitung ...
And his interest in Brahms, brief though it was, formed an important component of Strauss's musical maturation in the ... In researching his pathbreaking book, Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
With this volume, he gives us a summation of decades of engagement with the phenomenon of Wagner and, at the same time, the result of an abiding critical passion for his works.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Richard Wagner's Prose Works
This book, with provocative essays for both the uninitiated and the seasoned fan, examines Wagner's Ring cycle from a wide array of modern perspectives.
This book will also provide insight on the reception of medieval history and medieval music in nineteenth-century Germany, and will demonstrate how medievalism and nationalism were mutually reinforcing phenomena at this time and place in ...