Record ID: |
3048562 |
Format: |
Regular Print Book |
Physical description: |
xvii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Date acquired: |
December 2, 2013
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More creator details: |
Martin Geck ; translated by Stewart Spencer. |
General note: |
Translation of: Geck, Martin. Wagner. München : Siedler, 2012. |
Contents note: |
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. |
Contributor: |
Spencer, Stewart, translator.
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