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Wagner as I knew him
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ISBN: 1139924338 1108078222 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The German composer, performer and critic Ferdinand Praeger (1815-91) moved to London in 1834, and served as the London correspondent of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1842. A lifelong devotee of Wagner, he helped engage the composer to conduct eight concerts at the Philharmonic Society in 1855. His enthusiasm for Wagner led to the publication of this work in English in 1892, although it was soon claimed that he had greatly overplayed his role in the composer's career. There were accusations of invented stories, distorted facts and altered letters, subsequently supported by evidence obtained by biographers such as William Ashton Ellis, and also by Houston Stewart Chamberlain's comparison of original letters with those featured in this biography. Such negative publicity caused the publishers of the German edition to withdraw the book. Nonetheless, it contains personal impressions which remain of interest, and is now considered less exaggerated than previously thought.


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Wagner at home
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ISBN: 113992432X 1108078214 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Daughter of the poet Théophile Gautier, Judith Gautier (1845-1917) grew up among Europe's literary avant-garde, quickly establishing her own career as a writer. An unapologetic admirer of Richard Wagner from an early age, she described her moment of revelation on playing through the overture to The Flying Dutchman as 'vertigo of the spirit'. Her enthusiasm led to several works on the composer, including a translation of his poem for Parsifal, during the composition of which an intense intimacy developed between them (gently, but firmly, defused by Cosima). Reissued here is the 1910 English translation by Effie Dunreith Massie of Gautier's highly charged account of her first two visits to Wagner and Cosima in Switzerland in 1869 and 1870. Gautier describes the idyllic atmosphere and offers the reader an effusive pen-portrait of Wagner's complex personality. The work also features facsimile pages of Wagner's letters to Gautier, showing part of the score for Parsifal.


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Family letters of Richard Wagner
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ISBN: 1108078605 1139940708 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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William Ashton Ellis (1852-1919) abandoned his medical career in order to devote himself to his Wagner studies. Best known for his translations of Wagner's prose works and of Carl Friedrich Glasenapp's multi-volume biography of the composer, Ellis published in 1911 this English translation of Wagner's Familienbriefe, spanning the years 1832-74. An inveterate letter writer, Wagner was the youngest-but-one of ten children and Ellis describes the character of these letters to his sisters, his mother, his brother-in-law and his nieces as a reflection of the composer in the 'driest and most neutral of lights', claiming that within the family it is impossible to be pretentious. An appendix by Glasenapp, giving brief biographical details of family members, is also included. Despite the stylistic idiosyncrasies of the translations, these letters remain of importance, capturing something of the tone of Wagner's prose style and shedding light on his extraordinary life.


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Richard Wagner : His Life and his Dramas; a Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of his Work
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ISBN: 1139854828 1108062458 Year: 1902 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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The American music critic and lecturer William James Henderson (1855-1937) wrote for The New York Times and The New York Sun, provided the libretto for Walter Damrosch's opera Cyrano (1913) and authored fiction, poetry, sea stories and a textbook on navigation. He also taught at the New York College of Music and the Institute of Musical Art. Taking up the cause of Wagner with considerable understanding, he published this substantial work in 1902, barely twenty years after the composer's death. It is an illuminating account of Wagner's life and artistic aims, complemented by an insightful analysis of each of his music dramas from Rienzi to Parsifal. Its purpose, states Henderson, 'is to supply Wagner lovers with a single work which shall meet all their needs'. With Ernest Newman's Study of Wagner (1899), also reissued in this series, it reflects the composer's contemporary popularity.


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Richard to Minna Wagner : letters to his first wife.
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ISBN: 1139940554 1108078516 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The German actress Minna Planer (1809-66) was Wagner's first wife. Though it lasted until her death, their marriage, never an easy one, was punctuated by long periods of separation, and during its early years Minna was the main breadwinner. William Ashton Ellis (1852-1919) abandoned his medical career to devote himself to his Wagner studies. Best known for his translations of Wagner's prose works, he published in 1909 this collection of letters from the composer, translated from the originals in Baron Hans von Wolzogen's Richard Wagner an Minna Wagner (1908). Concerned predominantly with domestic and business affairs, many of them complaining at Minna's lack of support, the letters offer an intriguing and intimate view of this larger-than-life composer. Spanning 1842-58, Volume 1 covers the couple's period in Dresden, Wagner's hurried departure after the 1849 uprising, and the years in Zurich culminating in the relationship with Mathilde Wesendonck.


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Richard to Minna Wagner : letters to his first wife.
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ISBN: 1139940570 1108078524 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The German actress Minna Planer (1809-66) was Wagner's first wife. Though it lasted until her death, their marriage, never an easy one, was punctuated by long periods of separation, and during its early years Minna was the main breadwinner. William Ashton Ellis (1852-1919) abandoned his medical career to devote himself to his Wagner studies. Best known for his translations of Wagner's prose works, he published in 1909 this collection of letters from the composer, translated from the originals in Baron Hans von Wolzogen's Richard Wagner an Minna Wagner (1908). Concerned predominantly with domestic and business affairs, many of them complaining at Minna's lack of support, the letters offer an intriguing and intimate view of this larger-than-life composer. Spanning the period 1858-63, Volume 2 covers their uneasy, brief reconciliation in Paris, Wagner's concerns over Minna's failing health, and her return to Dresden in 1862, which marked their final separation.


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Zusemmenfassung des Lebens und der Kunst: Das Siegfried-Idyll von Richard Wagner
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ISSN: 03425991 ISBN: 9783769616491 3769616499 Year: 2009 Volume: 2009 (1) Publisher: München Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Wagner par ses rêves
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ISBN: 2870091559 9782870091555 Year: 1981 Volume: 105 Publisher: Bruxelles: Mardaga,


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Richard Wagner
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ISBN: 9780521519960 9780511676321 9781107404397 9780511677243 0511677243 0511681739 9780511681738 0521519969 0511676328 1107207266 1282536168 9786612536168 0511678509 0511683715 0511679750 1107404398 9781107207264 9781282536166 6612536160 9780511678509 9780511683718 9780511679759 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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All modern artists have had to market themselves in some way. Richard Wagner may just have done it better than anyone else. In a self-promotional effort that began around 1840 in Paris, and lasted for the remainder of his career, Wagner claimed convincingly that he was the most German composer ever and the true successor of Beethoven. More significantly, he was an opera composer who declared that he was not composing operas. Instead, during the 1850s, he mapped out a new direction, conceiving of works that would break with tradition and be literally 'brand new'. This is the first study to examine the innovative ways in which Wagner made himself a celebrity, promoting himself using every means available: autobiography, journal articles, short stories, newspaper announcements, letters, even his operas themselves. Vazsonyi reveals how Wagner created a niche for his works in the crowded opera market that continues to be unique.


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Kommentar zu Nietzsches : "Der Antichrist", "Ecce homo", "Dionysos-Dithyramben", "Nietzsche contra Wagner"
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ISBN: 9783110292770 9783110292893 3110292890 3110292777 Year: 2013 Volume: Bd. 6/2 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Die spätesten Nachlassschriften von 1888 zeugen von immenser sprachlicher und gedanklicher Radikalisierung. Der Antichrist soll die gesamte „Umwerthung aller Werthe“ sein; in Ecce homo betreibt Nietzsche eine Genealogie seines eigenen Denkens und eröffnet neue Dimensionen der Selbstreflexion. Nietzsche contra Wagner resümiert Nietzsches schon weit zurückreichende Wagner-Kritik, während die Dionysos-Dithyramben die Lyrik zu erneuern streben. The last posthumous manuscripts from 1888 bear witness to an enormous stylistic and intellectual radicalization. The Antichrist purports to be a total “reevaluation of all values.” In Ecce homo, Nietzsche explores the genealogy of his own thinking, opening up new dimensions of self-reflection. Nietzsche contra Wagner sums up the many years of Nietzsche’s continuing critique of Wagner, while the Dionysian Dithyrambs seek to breathe new life into lyric poetry.

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