A Companion To Wagners Parsifal
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Author |
: William Kinderman |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781571132376 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1571132376 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal by : William Kinderman
New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work.
Author |
: William Kinderman |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2013-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195366921 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195366921 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation by : William Kinderman
This study explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career, and offers a reassessment of the ideological and political history of 'Parsifal' that illuminates the connection of Wagner's legacy to the rise of National Socialism in Germany. The compositional genesis is traced through many unfamiliar sketches and manuscript sources held at Bayreuth, revealing unsuspected models and veiled connections to Wagner's earlier works.
Author |
: Lucy Beckett |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1981-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521296625 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521296625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Richard Wagner: Parsifal by : Lucy Beckett
A comprehensive account of Wagner's last, and strangest opera.
Author |
: Roger Scruton |
Publisher |
: Allen Lane |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2020-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0241419697 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780241419694 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wagner's Parsifal by : Roger Scruton
This short but penetrating book, shows us how Wagner achieves this profound work, explaining the story, its musical ideas, and their coming together into a sublime whole which gives us the musical equivalent of forgiveness and closure
Author |
: William Berger |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2010-06-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307756343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307756343 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wagner Without Fear by : William Berger
Do you cringe when your opera-loving friends start raving about the latest production of Tristan? Do you feel faint just thinking about the six-hour performance of Parsifal you were given tickets to? Does your mate accuse you of having a Tannhäuser complex? If you're baffled by the behavior of Wagner worshipers, if you've longed to fathom the mysteries of Wagner's ever-increasing popularity, or if you just want to better understand and enjoy the performances you're attending, you'll find this delightful book indispensable. William Berger is the most helpful guide one could hope to find for navigating the strange and beautiful world of the most controversial artist who ever lived. He tells you all you need to know to become a true Wagnerite--from story lines to historical background; from when to visit the rest room to how to sound smart during intermission; from the Jewish legend that possibly inspired Lohengrin to the tragic death of the first Tristan. Funny, informative, and always a pleasure to read, Wagner Without Fear proves that the art of Wagner can be accessible to everyone. Includes: - The strange life of Richard Wagner--German patriot (and exile), friend (and enemy) of Liszt and Nietzsche - Essential opera lore and "lobby talk" - A scene-by-scene analysis of each opera - What to listen for to get the most from the music - Recommended recordings, films, and sound tracks
Author |
: Thomas S. Grey |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 692 |
Release |
: 2008-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139825948 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139825941 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Wagner by : Thomas S. Grey
Richard Wagner is remembered as one of the most influential figures in music and theatre, but his place in history has been marked by a considerable amount of controversy. His attitudes towards the Jews and the appropriation of his operas by the Nazis, for example, have helped to construct a historical persona that sits uncomfortably with modern sensibilities. Yet Wagner's absolutely central position in the operatic canon continues. This volume serves as a timely reminder of his ongoing musical, cultural, and political impact. Contributions by specialists from such varied fields as musical history, German literature and cultural studies, opera production, and political science consider a range of topics, from trends and problems in the history of stage production to the representations of gender and sexuality. With the inclusion of invaluable and reliably up-to-date biographical data, this collection will be of great interest to scholars, students, and enthusiasts.
Author |
: Solveig Olsen |
Publisher |
: Rlpg/Galleys |
Total Pages |
: 568 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105114533883 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hans Jürgen Syberberg and His Film of Wagner's Parsifal by : Solveig Olsen
While much has been published abroad about the German filmmaker and author Hans J rgen Syberberg, this is the first English monograph about him. Author Solveig Olsen presents a biographical overview of the controversial artist and his body of work, and offers an in-depth analysis of Syberberg's film of Richard Wagner's Parsifal and his later works. Syberberg gained international fame as a filmmaker with the films of his "German Cycle," which included Our Hitler, a study of the Hitler potential in human nature. Parsifal of 1982 concluded the German Cycle. Preserving Wagner's libretto and score, the film uses the visual component to imbue the work with a surprising interpretation. In addition to the medieval story about the Grail seeker, the director draws on several other frames of reference, such as the theories of Freud and Jung, alchemy, and Syberberg's main aesthetic views and philosophy that have gone unrecognized until now. Olsen explores the role of Parsifal as Wagner's artistic and philosophical testament, and the implications of Syberberg's reinterpretation.
Author |
: Laurence Dreyfus |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2010-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674018815 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674018818 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wagner and the Erotic Impulse by : Laurence Dreyfus
Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. Daring to represent erotic stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of sexual desire, Wagner sparked intense reactions from figures like Baudelaire, Clara Schumann, Nietzsche, and Nordau, whose verbal tributes and censures disclose what was transmitted when music represented sex. Wagner himself saw the cultivation of an erotic high style as central to his art, especially after devising an anti-philosophical response to Schopenhauer’s “metaphysics of sexual love.” A reluctant eroticist, Wagner masked his personal compulsion to cross-dress in pink satin and drench himself in rose perfumes while simultaneously incorporating his silk fetish and love of floral scents into his librettos. His affection for dominant females and surprising regard for homosexual love likewise enable some striking portraits in his operas. In the end, Wagner’s achievement was to have fashioned an oeuvre which explored his sexual yearnings as much as it conveyed—as never before—how music could act on erotic impulse.
Author |
: Robert Ludlum |
Publisher |
: Bantam |
Total Pages |
: 722 |
Release |
: 2015-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345539229 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345539222 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Parsifal Mosaic by : Robert Ludlum
Michael Havelock’s world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava as he watched his partner and lover, double agent Jenna Karas, efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There’s nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Then, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. Racing around the globe in search of his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is now marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist: Parsifal. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Parsifal Mosaic “[Robert] Ludlum’s narrative imagination is a force of nature.”—The New York Times “As fast-paced and absorbing as any he’s written.”—Newsday “The suspense never lets up.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A crackling good yarn.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Author |
: Adrian Daub |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2013-11-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226082271 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022608227X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tristan's Shadow by : Adrian Daub
Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century’s most influential operas—and created some of the most indelible characters ever to grace the stage. But over the course of his polarizing career, Wagner also composed volumes of essays and pamphlets, some on topics seemingly quite distant from the opera house. His influential concept of Gesamtkunstwerk—the “total work of art”—famously and controversially offered a way to unify the different media of an opera into a coherent whole. Less well known, however, are Wagner’s strange theories on sexuality—like his ideas about erotic acoustics and the metaphysics of sexual difference. Drawing on the discourses of psychoanalysis, evolutionary biology, and other emerging fields of study that informed Wagner’s thinking, Adrian Daub traces the dual influence of Gesamtkunstwerk and eroticism from their classic expressions in Tristan und Isolde into the work of the generation of composers that followed, including Zemlinsky, d’Albert, Schreker, and Strauss. For decades after Wagner’s death, Daub writes, these composers continued to grapple with his ideas and with his overwhelming legacy, trying in vain to write their way out from Tristan’s shadow.