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| Series |
The Master musicians
Master musicians series. ^A260201
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| Contents |
Childhood and adolescence (1813-32) -- Chorus master and musical director (1833-9) -- Failure in Paris, success in Dresden (1839-47) -- The bourgeois revolutionary (1848-9) -- Exile (1849-55) -- Blighted hopes (1856-63) -- Royal patronage and fulfilment of a dream (1864-76) -- A new creed (1877-83) -- 'Bayreuth idealism': the catastrophe -- The music -- Die Feen and Das Liebesverbot -- Rienzi -- Der fliegende Holländer -- Tannhäuser -- Der Ring des Nibelungen. Sources ; Construction of the libretto ; Composition sketches ; Musico-poetic synthesis ; Leitmotif ; Tonality and structure ; Orchestration ; Interpretations -- Tristan und Isolde. Sources ; Composition ; Musico-poetic synthesis ; Leitmotif ; Tonal relations -- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Sources ; Composition ; Musico-poetic synthesis ; Formal structure ; Tonal relations ; Historical and political background -- Parsifal. Sources ; Composition and first performances ; Musico-poetic synthesis ; Tonal relations ; Orchestration ; Interpretations -- Other instrumental and vocal works. Orchestral ; Piano ; Songs ; Choral -- Appendices. Calendar ; List of works ; Personalia ; Select bibliography ; The stages of Wagner's composition. |
| Bibliography note | "List of works": pages 300-306. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-323) and index. |
| LCCN | 84186075 |
| ISBN | 0460031813 : |
