The New Grove Wagner

The New Grove Wagner
Author: John Deathridge
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393315905

Contains a concise . . . account of Wagner's life by John Deathridge and . . . a treatment of Wagner's music, aesthetics, and individual operas and music dramas by Carl Dahlhaus which is a tour de force. --Joseph Kerman, New York Review of Books

The New Grove Wagner

The New Grove Wagner
Author: John Deathridge
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1984
Genre: Composers
ISBN:

Grove Art: The New Grove Art series, focusing on the most important periods and areas of art history, is derived from the critically acclaimed "The Dictionary of Art. Each book contains hundreds of articles by world authorities, written in clear, jargon-free language and provides an unprecedented guide to Western art. Grove Music: The scholarship of the world-renowned "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is now available in four convenientlysized paperbacks. These biographies offerallyou need to know about some of the most innovative and prolific composers ever known.

The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas

The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas
Author: Barry Millington
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2006-08-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195345517

One of the most controversial figures in the history of ideas as well as music, Richard Wagner continues to stimulate debate whenever his works are performed. Drawing upon the scholarship of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the most comprehensive dictionary of opera in the world, Barry Millington offers a concise, portable survey and guide, which will make a welcome addition to the shelf of anyone who loves opera. Millington has completely updated the original pieces and contributed four new chapters on Wagner, including a summary of Wagner productions from 1876 to the present day, a suggested listening and viewing gyide, complete chronology of Wagner's operas, and a glossary of terms that will delight any opera-goer. In addition, there are detailed entries on each of Wagner's operas, a main biographical section, and a group of separate articles on such topics as Leitmotif and Gesamtkunstwerk, as well as a newly revised updated article on Bayreuth. Complete with a new preface, updated bibliography, glossary, and discography--including first release dates of each recording--The New Grove Guide to Wagner and his Operas furnishes both seasoned Wagner-lovers and neophytes with all they require for an in-depth appreciation of this unique historical figure.

Wagner in Performance

Wagner in Performance
Author: Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300057188

This book, addressed to both specialists and the opera-going public, brings together a team of acknowledged authorities from round the world to examine the performance history and reception of Wagner's works in Europe and America. A connected sequence of essays on conducting, singing, production and stage design explores the nature of Wagner's demands on his interpreters. The book raises questions about the realization of opera on the stage: about the authority of the composer vis-a-vis the director and the audience: about the sanctity of the text, score and stage directions; and about the role of art itself in society.

Wagner Beyond Good and Evil

Wagner Beyond Good and Evil
Author: John Deathridge
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-07-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520254538

"This collection provides us with that rarest of objects: a genuinely new book on Wagner. Virtually every page offers fresh perspectives, some of them mined from the most unlikely of sources; indeed, the sheer eclecticism of the book, its willingness to range widely and irreverently through both popular and elite culture, is one of its greatest strengths."—Roger Parker, author of Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio "John Deathridge is one of the most authoritative, widely-regarded Wagner scholars around in any language. Few can match his command of scholarship and primary sources, and no one else knows how to put them to such clever, provocative uses. In addition, Deathridge enjoys an impressive range of critical, historical, and literary reference. The writing is consistently lively and engaging. The collection will provide a welcome change of diet for those tired of the usual Wagnerian fare. This is a welcome contribution, indeed."—Thomas Grey, author of Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts

Wagner

Wagner
Author: Barry Millington
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1992-11-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691027226

Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading. Barry Millington draws on the best previous scholarship and his own original research to set the record straight. The first part of this book is devoted to biography; the second, to a detailed study of the operas. Millington offers a historical review of the critical interpretation of each opera, including a discussion of recent methods of formal analysis. In this revised edition, two chapters, those on Tannhauser and Die Meistersinger, include significant new material. The bibliography has also been updated.

The Wagner Clan

The Wagner Clan
Author: Jonathan Carr
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0802143997

Examines the legacy of the German composer Richard Wagner and his descendants in terms of the rise, fall, and resurrection of Germany in modern Europe.

Music, Culture and Social Reform in the Age of Wagner

Music, Culture and Social Reform in the Age of Wagner
Author: James Garratt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-01-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139485709

Challenging received views of music in nineteenth-century German thought, culture and society, this 2010 book provides a radical reappraisal of its socio-political meanings and functions. Garratt argues that far from governing the nineteenth-century musical discourse and practice, the concept of artistic autonomy and the aesthetic categories bequeathed by Weimar classicism were persistently challenged by alternative models of music's social role. The book investigates these competing models and the social projects that gave rise to them. It interrogates nineteenth-century musical discourse, discussing a wide range of manifestos championing musical democratization or seeking to make music an engine for the transformation of society. In addition, it explores institutions and movements that attempted to realize these goals, and compositions - by Mendelssohn, Lortzing and Liszt as well as Wagner - in which the relation between aesthetic and social claims is programmatic.

The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas

The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas
Author: Barry Millington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195305884

The most controversial musical figure of the 19th century, Richard Wagner was a great literary, philosophical, and political activist. Drawing from contemporary scholarship, this biography provides different insights into his life and works.