This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: Richard Wagner
- ISBN10: 1409952355
- ISBN13: 9781409952350
Wilhelm Richard Wagner 1813-1883 was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas later called music dramas . Wagners musical style is often considered the epitome of classical musics Romantic period, due to its unprecedented exploration of emotional expression. He transformed musical thought through his idea of Gesamtkunstwerk total artwork , the synthesis of all the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, epitomized by his monumental four-opera cycle The Ring of the Niebelung 1876 . Wagner even went so far as to build his own opera-house to try to stage these works as he had imagined them. His literary friendship with Franz Liszt led to a long-lived correspondence later compiled in the two volumes of Corrrespondence of Wagner and Liszt 1889 ; a book that was attributed to both musicians. Among his other famous works are Tristan and Isolde, which broke important new musical ground, My Life in two volumes 1880 and The Flying Dutchman. Includes: Pasticcio, On German Opera, Bellini: A Word in Season, On German Music, Pergolesis 'Stabat Mater', Art and Climate, A Pilgrimage to Beethoven, The Virtuoso and the Artist, On the Overture, An End in Paris, The Artist and Publicity, A Happy Evening, Rossinis Stabat Mater, Autobiographic Sketch, The Nibelungen-Myth, On the Performing of 'Tannhuser.', On State and Religion, A Report on the Production of ' Tannhuser ' in Paris, The Destiny of Opera, Das Liebesverbot, What is German?, On the Name 'Musikdrama' and Judaism in Music.
