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Author | : Jonathan Carr |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2009-01-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1555848478 |
This chronicle of renowned composer Richard Wagner and his descendants features “a cast of characters who are positively operatic in their histrionics” (The Guardian). Richard Wagner was many things—composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite—and his descendants have carried on his complex legacy. In his “lively and wry” history of the legendary composer and his family, biographer Jonathan Carr also offers fascinating glimpses of Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Arturo Toscanini, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, and Adolf Hitler—a passionate fan of the Master’s music and an adopted uncle to Wagner’s grandchildren (The New York Times). Stretching from the revolutions of 1848 to the darkest days of World War II and through to the present incarnation of Wagner’s Bayreuth Festival, The Wagner Clan is “a smart, insightful look into German history” and a family whose saga is as gripping as any opera (New York Post). “Jonathan Carr’s history is formidable . . . [A] compendious and enthralling story.” —The Economist “The grandiose life of Richard Wagner—the pronouncements on art and the German soul, the petty groveling for money and favors, the intermittently atrocious politics and intermittently glorious music—was a tough act to follow. Carr . . . follows Wagner’s descendants through three generations as they fight each other for control of the Bayreuth Festival and, at opportune times, embrace, reject or sweep under the rug their forebear’s status as Nazism’s spiritual godfather. . . . Carr’s sprightly, fluent narrative places the family in its historical and intellectual context without reducing it to the symbolic effigy it has often become.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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.
Author | : Brigitte Hamann |
Publisher | : Granta Books (Uk) |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Drawing on previously untapped sources, this book presents a portrait of an extraordinary woman, as well as revealing glimpses of the 'private Hitler', offering the best insight yet into his relationship with Bayreuth and its central place in twentieth-century German history.
Author | : Oliver Hilmes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2010-05-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300168233 |
In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner—illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Richard Wagner. After Wagner’s death in 1883 Cosima played a crucial role in the promulgation and politicization of his works, assuming control of the Bayreuth Festival and transforming it into a shrine to German nationalism. The High Priestess of the Wagnerian cult, Cosima lived on for almost fifty years, crafting the image of Richard Wagner through her organizational ability and ideological tenacity.The first book to make use of the available documentation at Bayreuth, this biography explores the achievements of this remarkable and obsessive woman while illuminating a still-hidden chapter of European cultural history.
Author | : Frederic Spotts |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780300066654 |
Providing an overall account of the history of the Wagner festival, a critical analysis of its performers, productions, and enthusiasts establishes its remarkable beginnings, controversial associations, and surprising successes
Author | : Patrick Carnegy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780300106954 |
Chapitre 6, p. 175-207, consacré à Adolphe Appia.
Author | : Nike Wagner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Bayreuther Festspiele |
ISBN | : 9780753812808 |
Nike Wagner, the great grand-daughter of the composer, exposes the dramas behind the ever-controversial Wagner family and the Bayreuth Festival.
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Release | : 1850 |
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Papers of the Wagner family.
Author | : Lorijo Metz |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1900-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1477731423 |
While women were part of American history from the outset, they did not win the right to vote until 1920. Readers of this engrossing history of the women’s suffrage movement will discover its roots in the abolitionist movement. They’ll read about the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, which stated, “all men and women are created equal.” The book also discusses how the fight for women’s rights continued after the right to vote had been won. An illustrated timeline, map, and treasure trove of historical photos enrich the learning experience.
Author | : Oliver Hilmes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300219466 |
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary sources, including a veritable treasure trove of previously unexamined material on Liszt’s Weimar years, best-selling author Oliver Hilmes shines a spotlight on the extraordinary life and career of this singularly dazzling musical phenomenon. Whereas previous biographies have focused primarily on the composer’s musical contributions, Hilmes showcases Liszt the man in all his many shades and personal reinventions: child prodigy, Romantic eccentric, fervent Catholic, actor, lothario, celebrity, businessman, genius, and extravagant show-off. The author immerses the reader in the intrigues of the nineteenth-century European glitterati (including Liszt’s powerful patrons, the monstrous Wagner clan) while exploring the true, complex face of the artist and the soul of his music. No other Liszt biography in English is as colorful, witty, and compulsively readable, or reveals as much about the true nature of this extraordinary, outrageous talent.