Judaism in Music and Other Essays

Name: Judaism in Music and Other Essays
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ISBN: 9780803297661

ISBN-10: 0803297661

ISBN-13: 9780803297661

Edition: 1995

Authors: Richard Wagner, William Ashton Ellis, Richard Wagner

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Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality—that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to his reputation as to his genius. Often maddening, and sometimes called mad, Wagner wrote with the same intensity that characterized his music. nbsp; The letters and essays collected inJudaism in Music and Other Essayswere published during the 1850s and 1860s, the period when he was chiefly occupied with the creation of The Ring of the Nibelung. Highlighting this collection is the notorious 1850 article “Judaism in Music,” which caused such a firestorm that nearly twenty years later Wagner published an unapologetic appendix. Other prose pieces…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 6/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Translator's Preface


Author's Introduction


On the "Goethe-Stiftung"


A Theatre at Zurich


On Musical Criticism


Judaism in Music


Mementoes of Spontini


Homage to L. Spohr and W. Fischer


Gluck's Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis"


On the Performing of "Tannhauser"


Remarks on Performing "The Flying Dutchman"


Explanatory Programmes



Beethoven's "Heroic Symphony"



Beethoven's Overture to "Coriolanus"



Overture to "Der fliegende Hollander"



Overture to "Tannhauser"



Prelude to "Lohengrin"


On Franz Liszt's Symphonic Poems


Epilogue to the "Nibelung's Ring"


Preface to the "Ring" Poem


A Letter to Hector Berlioz


"Zukunftsmusik" ("Music of the Future")


On the Production of "Tannhauser" in Paris


The Vienna Opera-House


Summary


Index