{"product_id":"richard-wagner-his-life-and-his-dramas-a-biographical-study-of-the-man-and-an-explanation-of-his-work-paperback-9781108062459","title":"Richard Wagner; His Life and his Dramas; a Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of his Work (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108062459","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRichard Wagner\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHis Life and his Dramas; a Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of his Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn illuminating 1902 account of Wagner's life and artistic aims, with an analysis of each of his music dramas.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam James Henderson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108062459, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 June 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e522 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.657 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe American music critic and lecturer William James Henderson (1855–1937) wrote for The New York Times and The New York Sun, provided the libretto for Walter Damrosch's opera Cyrano (1913) and authored fiction, poetry, sea stories and a textbook on navigation. He also taught at the New York College of Music and the Institute of Musical Art. Taking up the cause of Wagner with considerable understanding, he published this substantial work in 1902, barely twenty years after the composer's death. It is an illuminating account of Wagner's life and artistic aims, complemented by an insightful analysis of each of his music dramas from Rienzi to Parsifal. Its purpose, states Henderson, 'is to supply Wagner lovers with a single work which shall meet all their needs'. With Ernest Newman's Study of Wagner (1899), also reissued in this series, it reflects the composer's contemporary popularity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Life of Wagner: 1. The boyhood of a genius\u003cbr\u003e 2. The first operas\u003cbr\u003e 3. Königsberg and Riga\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'The end of a musician in Paris'\u003cbr\u003e 5. Beginning of fame and hostility\u003cbr\u003e 6. Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Art and revolution'\u003cbr\u003e 8. Preaching what he practised\u003cbr\u003e 9. A stranger in a strange land\u003cbr\u003e 10. A second end in Paris\u003cbr\u003e 11. A monarch to the rescue\u003cbr\u003e 12. Some ideals realised\u003cbr\u003e 13. Finis coronat opus\u003cbr\u003e 14. The last drama\u003cbr\u003e 15. The character of the man\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Artistic Aims of Wagner: 1. The lyric drama as he found it\u003cbr\u003e 2. The reforms of Wagner\u003cbr\u003e 3. The musical system\u003cbr\u003e 4. The system as completed\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Great Music Dramas: 1. Introductory\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rienzi\u003cbr\u003e 3. Der fliegende Holländer\u003cbr\u003e 4. Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg\u003cbr\u003e 5. Lohengrin\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tristan und Isolde\u003cbr\u003e 7. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg\u003cbr\u003e 8. Der Ring des Nibelungen\u003cbr\u003e 9. Parsifal\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Classical music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Classical music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Classical%20music%20%5Bc%201750%20to%20c%201830%5D%20%5BAVGC4%5D%22\"\u003ec 1750 to c 1830 AVGC4\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266142425368,"sku":"9781108062459","price":38.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108062459i.jpg?v=1696748456","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/richard-wagner-his-life-and-his-dramas-a-biographical-study-of-the-man-and-an-explanation-of-his-work-paperback-9781108062459","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}