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Actors and Singersby Richard Wagner, William A. EllisISBN 0803297734 (0-8032-9773-4)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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Art and Politicsby Richard Wagner, William A. EllisISBN 0803297742 (0-8032-9774-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art and Politics'Book summary:A master of mystery and paradox, Wagner spent his life composing himself while composing music. Written between 1864 and 1878, the essays in Art and Politics converge upon Wagners desire to define and reform German culture. He was deeply annoyed that Germany seemed to satisfy itself with cheap theater, vulgar songs, and clumsy imitations of French art. In What Is German? he declared that German culture must rise above the common ruck. Citing Musics wonderman Johann Sebastian Bach as his precursor, Wagner fought to persuade his readers that German culture had a historic destiny, and that destiny was shaped first and foremost by music.As usual, embroiled in the defense of his operas and his person, Wagner recognized that his rescue from attack and poverty could not be expected from Franco-Judaico-German democracy. He instead fixed his hopes elsewhere: the embodied voucher for fundamental law, the Monarch. He found himself at a turning point in his career. In 1864 King Ludwig II of Bavaria befriended Wagner and gave him badly needed financial support. This alliance aroused Wagners enemies into further fits of jealousy. Yet, amid the public scorn, he worked on the production of Tristan und Isolde, drafted the libretto for Parsifal, and composed sections of Siegfried and Die Meistersinger.In these essays Wagner resumes his considerations of the close ties between religion and art. He calls art the kindly Life-saviour who does not really and wholly lead us out beyond this life, but, within it, lifts us up above it and shews it as itself a game of play. These essays express his artistic credo and the knowledge of German literature that underpinned his claims for German genius. Following his ideals, he proclaimed his intention to raise the quality of German opera, by himself if necessary.This edition includes the full text of volume 4 of the translation of Wagners works commissioned in 1895 by the London Wagner Society.[via]More editions of Art and Politics:
The Art-Work of the Future and Other Worksby Richard Wagner, William A. EllisISBN 0803297521 (0-8032-9752-1)
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The Family Letters of Richard Wagnerby Richard Wagner, William A. EllisISBN 0472102923 (0-472-10292-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Jesus of Nazareth and Other Writingsby Richard Wagner, William A. EllisISBN 0803297807 (0-8032-9780-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jesus of Nazareth and Other Writings'Book summary:Near the end of his life, Richard Wagner supervised the publication of his collected writings, providing an extensive view of his thoughts about art and politics from his youth to his final period of triumph. After his death, there was still more to be told: his admirers discovered a large number of writings he had forgotten, misplaced, never published, or had chosen to omit from his collected works. This volume, the last of eight volumes now reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press, collects the most illuminating of those works.The title work, Jesus of Nazareth, was written in 1848 or 1849; its composition coincided with the most widespread revolutionary ferment seen in Europe. It expresses Wagners own revolutionary ideals, thoroughly justified (or so he thought) by Jesus and the early Church. At the time Wagner considered Jesus as a revolutionary leader whose struggles with authority and traditions were much like his own.
The opening work is Siegfrieds Death, a poem written in 1848 that set the tone for his most famous operatic work, the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. Whole sections of the poem were later incorporated into the fourth Ring opera, Gotterdammerung, but the differences are as revealing as the carryover.The essays that Wagner published in journals but saw fit to exclude from his Gesammelte Schriften might have embarrassed the elderly sage but are key documents to Wagners activities in his revolutionary period. For example, his ardently prorevolutionary essay, The Revolution, would have displeased the wealthy patrons of his later years.This edition includes the full text of volume 8 of the translation of Wagners works published in 1899 for the London Wagner Society.[via]More editions of Jesus of Nazareth and Other Writings:
Life of Richard Wagner: Being an Authorized English Version of das Leben Richard Wagnerby William A. Ellis , Carl F. GlasenappISBN 0306708817 (0-306-70881-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Life of Richard Wagnerby William A. Ellis , Carl F. GlasenappISBN 0306708876 (0-306-70887-6)
Hardcover, Da Capo Press
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Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essaysby William A. Ellis , Carl F. GlasenappISBN 0803297637 (0-8032-9763-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays'Book summary:"Saint Beethoven!. . . . He was clad in somewhat untidy houseclothes, with a red woolen scarf wrapped round his waist; long, bushy grey hair hung in disorder from his head, and his gloomy, forbidding expression by no means tended to reassure. . . ."[via]When Wagner published the first collection of his writings he was pleased to admit how well he wrote, even when young. Historians and musicians ever since have agreed that some of his most important and revelatory works were written when he was first establishing his reputation in Paris and Dresden. Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays provides translations of the first two volumes of his Gesammelte Schriften (1871-1873). These works reveal how committed he was to emphasizing Germanic qualities in his music and define his opposition to the music of France and Italy.
In addition to his influential essay on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, this volume includes two early essays on Germanic myth"The Wibelungen" and "The Nibelungen-Myth"his homages to Carl Maria von Weber, and the complete text of his autobiographical A German Musician in Paris, with its famous "Pilgrimage to Beethoven."
The volume concludes with his "Plan of Organisation of a German National Theatre" (1849), founded upon Beethoven's moral music. Listeners "inspired by Beethoven's music have been more active and energetic citizens-of-State than those bewitched by Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti." Throughout these essays, as throughout his life, Wagner knew how to provoke.
This edition includes the complete volume 7 of the 1898 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
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Religion and Artby William A. Ellis , Carl F. GlasenappISBN 0803297645 (0-8032-9764-5)
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Torpedoes: A List of References to Material in the New York Public Libraryby William A. EllisISBN 1430477075 (1-4304-7707-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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