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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press (27 July 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0691143668
  • ISBN-13: 978-0691143668
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Offers much stimulating material, presented in kaleidoscopic fashion, that should be required reading for anyone desiring a more profound insight. -- Della Couling, Classical Music Magazine

Grey once again has ferreted out themes and original material on the composer which have not been over-exposed in English translation. -- Mike Ashman, Gramophone

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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.

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For the reader whose first language is English, this is the most important book on Wagner studies for several years. It is not an introduction to Wagner studies - for that I would recommend von Westernhagen's biography and/or the Thames & Hudson documentary study edited by Barth, Mack & Voss - but it contains a wealth of source material, some from Wagner himself & more from those who knew him directly, for the first time in English (such as a glimpse of the Anton Seidl papers held at Columbia University). No doubt we would all have done some bits differently - the very interesting essay on Leitmotif should surely have referred to Wagner's transcendent commentary on the topic in the November 1879 issue of "Bayreuther Blätter", which Ashton Ellis translated as "On the Application of Music to Drama" (now reprinted in a volume entitled "Art and Religion") - but this book is as near to perfection as we can reasonably hope to get. Essential reading!
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