Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Spencer, Stewart

Description

1. xvii, 444 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm

Uniform title

1. Wagner. English

Alternative title

1. Wagner.

Subject

1. Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
2. Composers > Germany > Biography

Contents

1. Introduction : Figuring out Wagner? -- The archetypal theatrical scene : from Leubald to Die Feen -- A word about Felix Mendelssohn -- The blandishments of grand opera : das Liebesverbot and Rienzi -- A word about Giacomo Meyerbeer -- "Deep shock" and "a violent change of direction" : der Fliegende Holländer -- A word about Heinrich Heine -- Rituals to combat fear and loneliness: Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg -- A word about Josef Rubinstein -- A bedtime story with dire consequences : Lohengrin -- A word about Arnold Schoenberg -- The revolutionary drafts : Achilles, Jesus of Nazareth, Siegfried's death and Wieland the Smith -- A word about Paul Bekker -- "We have art so as not to be destroyed by the truth" : the Ring as a nineteenth-century myth -- A word about Angelo Neumann -- "My music making is in fact magic making, for I just cannot produce music coolly and mechanically" : the art of the Ring--seen from the beginning -- A word about George Steiner -- "He resembles us to a tee; he is the sum total of present-day intelligence" : the art of the Ring--Wotan's music -- A word about Sergei Eisenstein -- "A mystical pit, giving pleasure to individuals" : Tristan und Isolde -- A word about Ernst Bloch -- "A magnificent, overcharged, heavy, late art" : die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- A word about Berthold Auerbach -- "They're hurrying on toward their end, though they think they will last for ever" : the art of the Ring--seen from the end -- A word about Theodor W. Adorno -- "You will see--diminished sevenths were just not possible!": Parsifal -- A word about Gustav Mahler -- Wagner as the sleuth of modernism.

Call number

1. JME 13-601

Note

1. Translation of: Geck, Martin. Wagner. München : Siedler, 2012.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Author

1. Geck, Martin.

Title

1. Richard Wagner : a life in music / Martin Geck ; translated by Stewart Spencer.

Publisher

1. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added author

1. Spencer, Stewart, translator.

Other editions:

1. Translation of: Geck, Martin. Wagner. München : Siedler, 2012 (DLC) 2012489833

LCCN

1. 2013014426

ISBN

1. 9780226924618 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0226924610 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780226924625 (e-book)

Research call number

1. JME 13-601