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Rounding Wagner's Mountain
  • Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera
  • Bryan Gilliam
  • Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    13 November 2014
  • Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others, and they also overlap some of the most important and tumultuous stretches of German history, such as the founding and demise of a German empire, the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, the period of National Socialism, and the post-war years, which saw a divided East and West Germany. In the first book to discuss all Strauss's operas, Bryan Gilliam sets each work in its historical, aesthetic, philosophical, and literary context to reveal what made the composer's legacy unique. Addressing Wagner's cultural influence upon this legacy, Gilliam also offers new insights into the thematic and harmonic features that recur in Strauss's compositions.

Richard Wagner's Beethoven (1870)
  • A New Translation
  • Roger Allen
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    16 October 2014
  • Despite the enormous and accelerating worldwide interest in Wagner leading to the bicentenary of his birth in 2013, his prose writings have received scant scholarly attention. Wagner's book-length essay on Beethoven, written to celebrate the centenary of Beethoven's birth in 1870, is really about Wagner himself rather than Beethoven. It is generally regarded as the principal aesthetic statement of the composer's later years, representing a reassessment ofthe ideas of the earlier Zurich writings, especially Oper und Drama, in the light of the experience gained through the composition of Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the greater part of Der Ring des Nibelungen. It contains Wagner's most complete exegesis of his understanding of Schopenhauer's philosophy and its perceived influence on the compositional practice of his later works. The essay also influenced the young Nietzsche. It is an essential text in the teaching of not only Wagnerian thought but also late nineteenth-century musical aesthetics in general. Until now the English reader with no access to the German original has been obliged to work from two Victorian translations. This brand new edition gives the German original and the newly translated English text on facing pages. It comes along with a substantial introduction placing the essay not onlywithin the wider historical and intellectual context of Wagner's later thought but also in the political context of the establishment of the German Empire in the 1870s. The translation is annotated throughout with a full bibliography. Richard Wagner's Beethoven will be indispensable reading for historians and musicologists as well as those interested in Wagner's philosophy and the aesthetics of music. ROGER ALLEN is Fellow and Tutor in Music at St Peter's College, Oxford.

Wagner's Visions
  • Poetry, Politics, and the Psyche in the Operas through 'Die Walküre'
  • Katherine R. Syer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    01 September 2014
  • The psychological dimension of Richard Wagner's operas has long been associated with the ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer, yet Wagner had begun absorbing elements of contemporary psychological thought into his stage works as early as the 1830s, twenty years before he engaged with the philosopher's writings. As Katherine Syer demonstrates, the composer incorporated imagery and metaphors with the potential to infuse his psychologically charged dramas with latent political meaning. His operatic visions convey a sense of urgency intimately bound up with the era's crises and instabilities. In Wagner's Visions, Syer offers a detailed examination of Die Feen, Wagner's least known complete opera, as well as new analytical insights into Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, and the four Ring dramas. Her study of the ways Wagner probed the inner experiences of his protagonists explores the impact of neglected yet crucial artistic influences. These include the fables of the eighteenth-century Venetian playwright Carlo Gozzi, the Iphigenia operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck, and the legacy of the martyr Theodor Körner. During the Napoleonic Wars, which raged as Wagner was born, Körner's poetry became the lingua franca of the revolutionary movement to liberate and unify Germany. A Humboldt Fellowship recipient, Syer is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Theatre Department Faculty Affiliate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Richard Wagner's Beethoven (German text and English translation)

  • Roger Allen, Fellow and Tutor in Music at St Peter's College, Oxford
  • Book:
    Richard Wagner's Beethoven (1870)
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    16 October 2014, pp 29-200

  • Summary

    Autograph Sources

    Wagner, Richard, Beethoven (Richard-Wagner-Stiftung Bayreuth, NA BII d 6–7).

    B II d 6. Working Draft (Urschrift): 28 pages in Wagner's hand, numbered consecutively. Dated 7 September 1870. Draft of Foreword (unnumbered) appended and dated 11 September 1870.

    B II d 7. Fair copy (Reinschrift): 54 pages in ink in Wagner's hand numbered consecutively from page 5 onward (MS). The Annexe (undated) appears to be a later addition in pencil and occupies the remaining space on page 54 and page 55.

    At some point following the completion of Beethoven in September 1870, Wagner penned a strongly polemical and strident annexe in which he laments the fact that the military victories of 1870 had not been accompanied by an equivalent cultural enhancement. The draft text is appended to the fair copy in Wagner's hand (B II d 7, pp. 54–5). Presumably, Wagner then changed his mind, as it is not included in the first printed edition (1870) or in the text as included in the first collected edition of the prose works prepared under Wagner's supervision: Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtungen, 10 vols (Leipzig: E. W. Fritzsch, 1871–73), vol. 9, pp. 77–151. It does, however, appear among miscellaneous pieces in the later collected writings: ‘Ein nicht veröffentlicher Schluβ der Schrift “Beethoven”’ (SSD, vol. 16, pp. 108–10).

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