Wagnerism Art And Politics In The Shadow Of Music

For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known ...

The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a ...

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth ...

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That Wagner conceived of himself creatively as both man and woman is central to an understanding of his life and ...

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"Operetta: A Theatrical History" is considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, ...

A master of mystery and paradox, Wagner spent his life composing himself while composing music. Written between 1864 and 1878, the essays ...

Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group portrait of many of the ...

Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading. ...

This Companion provides an overview and in-depth analysis of Wagner's Ring using traditional critical analysis alongside more recent approaches....

'An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art form on Planet Earth. Destined to become a classic (...

With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera ...

A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music....

Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siècle fascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the ...

"100 Wagner Moments: Have you had one?" The music dramas of Richard Wagner have, for the last 150 years, thrilled and amazed ...

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Chapitre 6, p. 175-207, consacré à Adolphe Appia....

Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, ...

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In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation ...

Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of ...

Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has ...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction How do you tell ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (later called ...

‘Riveting, taking in prejudice as well as sacrifice. There are 4.30am starts, lost instruments, fractured wrists, all captured with vivid ...

Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his ...

The end of the Cold War announced a new world order. Liberal democracy prevailed, ideological conflict abated, and world politics ...

NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE A groundbreaking new biography ...

Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin ...

Story of Thea Kronborg, who rose from humble origins to the top of the opera world through her own hard ...

Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell. Toscanini wanted to ...

In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner—illegitimate daughter ...

Richard Strauss' fifteen operas make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. In the ...

Composers and artists have always borrowed from each other. Peter Vergo, for the first time, offers an in-depth study of ...

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