A Study of Wagner - Brossura

Newman, Ernest

 
9781108004718: A Study of Wagner

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A critical analysis of Wagner's aesthetics and philosophy and their expression in his musical development and theoretical writings.

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The first of several in-depth studies of Wagner and his music by the music critic Ernest Newman, author of the four-volume biography published 1933–1947. This early work presents a critical analysis of the composer's aesthetics and philosophy and their expression through his musical development and theoretical writings.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. A psychological preliminary; 2. Rienzi and the Flying Dutchman; 3. Tannhauser and Lohengrin; 4. Art and life; 5. Wagner's theory of music, poetry, and music-drama; 6. The Ring of the Nibelung; 7. Wagner as German; 8. Tristan and Isolde and Die Meistersinger; 9. Some later prose works; 10. Parsifal; 11. General considerations; Index.

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