基本説明
"Wagner and His World" examines his works in their intellectual and cultural contexts.
Full Description
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories. Wagner and His World examines his works in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Seven original essays investigate such topics as music drama in light of rituals of naming in the composer's works and the politics of genre; the role of leitmotif in Wagner's reception; the urge for extinction in Tristan und Isolde as psychology and symbol; Wagner as his own stage director; his conflicted relationship with pianist-composer Franz Liszt; the anti-French satire Eine Kapitulation in the context of the Franco-Prussian War; and responses of Jewish writers and musicians to Wagner's anti-Semitism. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Karol Berger, Leon Botstein, Lydia Goehr, Kenneth Hamilton, Katherine Syer, and Christian Thorau.
This book also includes translations of essays, reviews, and memoirs by champions and detractors of Wagner; glimpses into his domestic sphere in Tribschen and Bayreuth; and all of Wagner's program notes to his own works. Introductions and annotations are provided by the editor and David Breckbill, Mary A. Cicora, James Deaville, Annegret Fauser, Steven Huebner, David Trippett, and Nicholas Vazsonyi.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix Permissions xv PART I: ESSAYS From Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur 3 KATHERINE SYER Wagner and Liszt: Elective Affinities 27 KENNETH HAMILTON From Opera to Music Drama: Nominal Loss, Titular Gain 65 LYDIA GOEHR Eine Kapitulation: Aristophanic Operetta as Cultural Warfare 87 in 1870 THOMAS S. GREY A Note on Tristan's Death Wish 123 KAROL BERGER Guides for Wagnerites: Leitmotifs and Wagnerian Listening 133 CHRISTIAN THORAU German Jews and Wagner 151 LEON BOTSTEIN PART II: BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS Wilhelmine Schroder-Devrient and Wagner's Dresden 201 CLAIRE VON GLUMER, HENRY CHORLEY TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY Catulle Mendes Visits Tribschen 230 CATULLE MENDES TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY Recollections of Villa Wahnfried from Wagner's American Dentist 237 NEWELL SILL JENKINS INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY PART III: TOWARD A MUSIC OF THE FUTURE, 1840-1860 The Overture to Tannhauser 251 FRANZ LISZT INTRODUCED, EDITED, AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID TRIPPETT TRANSLATED BY JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT Letters to a Young Composer About Wagner 269 JOHANN CHRISTIAN LOBE INTRODUCED, EDITED, AND TRANSLATED BY DAVID TRIPPETT Franz Brendel's Reconciliation Address 311 FRANZ BRENDEL INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY JAMES DEAVILLE TRANSLATED BY JAMES DEAVILLE AND MARY A. CICORA PART IV: WAGNER AND PARIS Wagner Admires Meyerbeer (Les Huguenots) 335 RICHARD WAGNER TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY Debacle at the Paris Opera: 347 Tannhauser and the French Critics, 1861 OSCAR COMETTANT, PAUL SCUDO TRANSLATED BY THOMAS S. GREY INTRODUCED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER ANNOTATED BY ANNEGRET FAUSER AND THOMAS S. GREY The Revue wagnerienne: Symbolism, Aestheticism, 372 and Germanophilia J. K. HUYSMANS, TEODOR DE WYZEWA, EDOUARD DUJARDIN INTRODUCED BY STEVEN HUEBNER SELECTIONS TRANSLATED BY BRENDAN KING AND CHARLOTTE MANDELL PART V: THE BAYREUTH ERA Press Releases from the Bayreuth Festival, 1876: 391 An Early Attempt at Spin Control J. ZIMMERMANN INTRODUCED, TRANSLATED, AND ANNOTATED BY NICHOLAS VAZSONYI Hanslick contra Wagner: 409 "The Ring Cycle Comes to Vienna" and "Parsifal Literature" EDUARD HANSLICK TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY THOMAS S. GREY Hans von Wolzogen's Parsifal (1887) 426 HANS VON WOLZOGEN TRANSLATED, INTRODUCED, AND EDITED BY MARY A. CICORA Cosima Wagner's Bayreuth 435 RICHARD POHL, ARTHUR SEIDL, EUGEN GURA, ARNOLD SCHERING, HEINRICH CHEVALLEY TRANSLATED BY MARY A. CICORA INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY DAVID BRECKBILL PART VI: THE COMPLETE PROGRAM NOTES OF RICHARD WAGNER Wagner Introduces Wagner (and Beethoven): 479 Program Notes Written for Concert Performances by and of Richard Wagner, 1846-1880 RICHARD WAGNER TRANSLATED, ANNOTATED, AND INTRODUCED BY THOMAS S. GREY Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Beethoven's Eroica Symphony Beethoven's Coriolan Overture Overture to Tannhauser Overture to Der fliegende Hollander Prelude to Lohengrin Tannhauser Lohengrin L. van Beethoven, String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131 Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act 1 and Conclusion ("Transfiguration") Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Preludes to Acts 1 and 3 Gotterdammerung Die Walkure Parsifal: Prelude to Act 1 Index 523 Notes on the Contributors 539
