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Richard Wagner : a life in music
- Title
- Richard Wagner : a life in music / Martin Geck ; translated by Stewart Spencer.
- Author
- Geck, Martin.
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Spencer, Stewart
- Description
- xvii, 444 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
- Uniform Title
- Wagner. English
- Alternative Title
- Wagner.
- Subject
- Note
- Translation of: Geck, Martin. Wagner. München : Siedler, 2012.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- 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
- JME 13-601
- ISBN
- 9780226924618 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226924610 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226924625 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013014426
- OCLC
- 833574394
- Author
- Geck, Martin.
- Title
- Richard Wagner : a life in music / Martin Geck ; translated by Stewart Spencer.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- Spencer, Stewart, translator.
- Other Editions:
- Translation of: Geck, Martin. Wagner. München : Siedler, 2012 (DLC) 2012489833
- Research Call Number
- JME 13-601