The Cambridge Companion to Wagner
- Editor: Grey, Thomas S.
This volume provides a balanced introduction to the composer's life, times, works, and reception. A useful chronology ... The repolitiizing of the 'Wagner question' is unquestionably one of... — More…
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Contents
- Chronology;
- Part I . Biographical and Historical Contexts:
- 1. Wagner lives: issues in autobiography John Deathridge;
- 2. Meister Richard's apprenticeship: the early operas (1833-40) Thomas S. Grey;
- 3. To the Dresden barricades: the genesis of Wagner's political ideas Mitchell Cohen;
- Part II . Opera, Music, Drama:
- 4. The 'Romantic operas' and the turn to myth Stewart Spencer;
- 5. Der Ring des Nibelungen: conception and interpretation Barry Millington;
- 6. Leitmotif, temporality, and musical design in the Ring Thomas S. Grey;
- 7. Tristan und Isolde: essence and appearance John Daverio;
- 8. Performing Germany in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Stephen McClatchie;
- 9. Parsifal: redemption and Kunstreligion Glenn Stanley;
- Part III . Ideas and Ideology in the Gesamtkunstwerk:
- 10. The urge to communicate: the prose writings as theory and practice James Treadwell;
- 11. Critique as passion and polemic: Nietzsche and Wagner Dieter Borchmeyer;
- 12. The Jewish question Thomas S. Grey;
- Part IV . After Wagner: Influence and Interpretation:
- 13. 'Wagnerism': responses to Wagner in music and the arts Annegret Fauser;
- 14. Wagner and the Third Reich: myths and realities Pamela M. Potter;
- 15. Wagner on stage: aesthetic, dramaturgical, and social considerations Mike Ashman;
- 16. Criticism and analysis: current perspectives Arnold Whittall.