music. This accessible handbook brings together seven leading international writers to discuss the opera's genesis and the libretto's relationship to late Romantic literary concerns, present an analysis of the
This new art of the future, which Wagner envisaged, would restore the wholeness of ancient Greek drama. It is the purpose, therefore, of this study to analyze mainly from an aesthetic point of view the influences of ancient Greek spirit on romantic thought, by focusing on Wagners work....
Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of...
ThisbookanalysesthelifelongimpactofBeethoven'smusiconWagneranditsimportanceforhisconceptionofmusicdrama.KropfingerchartsandscrutinisesWagner'searlyresponsestothecomposerandconsidershisexperienceasaconductorofBeethoven'smusic.AdiscussionoftheRomantic'Beethovenimage'leadstoacarefulstudyofWagner'saestheticwritings,includinghis...
In 1839, Wagner had to flee his creditors and so he went to Paris, where he spent three years unsuccessfully trying to break into the French opera scene. He composed the traditional operaRienziin 1840, andThe Flying Dutchmanin 1841.The Flying Dutchmanwas Wagner's first music drama, composed...
InitiallyestablishinghisreputationasacomposerofworksintheromanticveinofWeberandMeyerbeer,WagnerrevolutionisedoperathroughhisconceptoftheGesamtkunstwerk("totalworkofart"),bywhichhesoughttosynthesisethepoetic,visual,musicalanddramaticarts,withmusicsubsidiarytodrama,andwhichwasannouncedinaseriesofessaysbetween1849and1852....
Not so much because with the great voices of the past, the singing is better (although that is true), but because the action in these “music dramas” is so mythic, and so German Romantic, that no scenery or stage machinery can adequately portray the Rhine maidens singing underwater, the...
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and Isoldestoryline could offer further clues: a drama where love and hate are almost the same thing, and where sexual tension builds and builds but never finds release. Maybe the music claims that all romantic love ever leads to is misery and death. Despite everything, we will never be ...
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