Biographies on Life of Composer Richard Wagner

Biographies on Life of Composer Richard Wagner

Books in list (14)


Title: The Life of Richard Wagner (v. 4)

Author(s): Ernest Newman
ISBN 13: 9780521290975

Title: Richard Wagner

Author(s): Terry Quinn
ISBN 13: 9781574674415


Title: Richard Wagner and the Anti-semitic Imagination (Texts and Contexts)

Author(s): Marc A. Weiner
ISBN 13: 9780803297920

Title: Richard Wagner and Buddhism

Author(s): Urs App
ISBN 13: 9783906000008

Title: Richard Wagner His Life and His Dreams A Biographical Study of the Man and an explanation of his Work

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Author(s): W.J. Henderson
ISBN 13: 9781515358497

Title: Wagner : My Life

This reprint is of the first English paperback edition of Richard Wagner's autobiography. This is a primary document of enormous importance for all Wagner enthusiasts, being virtually the sole source of information of the composer's childhood and youth. Written for Wagner's second wife, Cosima, and his patron, King Ludwig II, the autobiography runs from the composer's birth up to the eve of his fifty-first birthday in 1864. Given the intended readership and the circumstances of its composition it is hardly surprising that Wagner should either omit or distort facts from time to time: he does not linger over previous affairs, he portrays his relationship with his first wife, Minna, as a good deal more distant than it really was and he plays down his involvement in the Dresden uprising of 1849. Despite all this, the book presents a panoramic view of Wagner's times and contemporaries and offers a unique perspective on the operas themselves. This translation is of the complete edition published in Munich in 1963 and based on the manuscript in the Wagner Archives in Bayreuth. Wagner's slips of memory are noted, as are references to obscure names and events.

Author(s): Richard Wagner, Mary Whittall, Andrew Gray
ISBN 13: 9780521359009
Pages: 800

Title: An In Introduction to Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen: A Handbook

Author(s): William O. Cord
ISBN 13: 9780821411124

Title: My Life, Vol. 2 (Facsimile Reprint Edition)

Author(s): Richard Wagner
ISBN 13: 9781434417374

Title: Richard Wagner: Composer of Operas

Author(s): Runciman, John F.
ISBN 13: 9781434600493

Title: Wagner: (Revised ed.)

Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him—including his autobiography—is misleading. Barry Millington draws on the best previous scholarship and his own original research to set the record straight. The first part of this book is devoted to biography; the second, to a detailed study of the operas. Millington offers a historical review of the critical interpretation of each opera, including a discussion of recent methods of formal analysis. In this revised edition, two chapters, those on Tannhauser and Die Meistersinger, include significant new material. The bibliography has also been updated.

Author(s): Barry Millington
ISBN 13: 9780691027227
Pages: 356

Title: Richard Wagner and the Jews

It is well known that Richard Wagner, the renowned and controversial 19th century composer, exhibited intense anti-Semitism. The evidence is everywhere in his writings as well as in conversations his second wife recorded in her diaries. In his infamous essay "Judaism in Music," Wagner forever cemented his unpleasant reputation with his assertion that Jews were incapable of either creating or appreciating great art.Wagner's close ties with many talented Jews, then, are surprising. Most writers have dismissed these connections as cynical manipulations and rank hypocrisy. Examination of the original sources, however, reveals something different: unmistakeable, undeniable empathy and friendship between Wagner and the Jews in his life. Indeed, the composer had warm relationships with numerous individual Jews. Two of them resided frequently over extended periods in his home. One of these, the rabbi's son Hermann Levi, conducted Wagner's final opera-Parsifal, based on Christian legend-at Wagner's request; no one, Wagner declared, understood his work so well. Even in death his Jewish friends were by his side; two were among his twelve pallbearers.The contradictions between Wagner's antipathy toward the amorphous entity "The Jews" and his genuine friendships with individual Jews are the subject of this book. Drawing on extensive sources in both German and English, including Wagner's autobiography and diary and the diaries of his second wife, this comprehensive treatment of Wagner's anti-Semitism is the first to place it in perspective with his life and work. Included in the text are portions of unpublished letters exchanged between Wagner and Hermann Levi. Altogether, the book reveals astonishing complexities in a man long known as much for his prejudice as for his epic contributions to opera.
Author(s): Milton E. Brener
ISBN 13: 9780786423705
Pages: 333

Title: Aspects of Wagner

Author(s): Bryan Magee
ISBN 13: 9780192840127

Title: My Life, Vol. 1 (Facsimile Reprint Edition)

Author(s): Richard Wagner
ISBN 13: 9781434417312

 


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