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Symboliek en werkelijkheid in de werken van Richard Wagner
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ISBN: 9023232720 Year: 1997 Publisher: Assen Van Gorcum


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Nietzsche, Wagner and the philosophy of pessimism
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ISBN: 0049210297 Year: 1982 Publisher: London Allen and Unwin

Aspects of Wagner
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ISBN: 9780192840127 0192840126 0192177680 9780192177681 Year: 1988 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

The anti-Christ
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ISBN: 0521016886 9780521016889 0521816599 9780521816595 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press


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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.

Strukturale Komposition und Strukturanalyse : ein Beitrag zur Wagnerforschung
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ISBN: 3764922273 Year: 1986 Publisher: Regensburg Bosse


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Musik als Einfall : Hans Pfitzners Position im ästhetischen Diskurs nach Wagner
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ISBN: 3890869408 Year: 1986 Publisher: Aachen Rimbaud

Wagner Androgyne : a study in interpretation
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ISBN: 0691091412 Year: 1993 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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