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- Richard Wagner's Essays on Conducting: A New Translation with Critical Commentary
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- 2021
- Published by: University of Rochester Press
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The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact.
Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von Bülow, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch, and their many notable protégés, a Wagnerian art of interpretation became the norm in Europe and America until well into the twentieth century. Wagner's essays on conducting had an even longer impact, and were upheld as central to their art by later generations of conductors from Mahler to Strauss, Furtwängler, Böhm, Scherchen, and beyond.
This is the first complete, modern translation of Wagner's conducting essays to appear in English, and the first-ever edition to offer extensive annotations explaining their reception and impact. The accompanying critical essay offers a detailed analysis of Wagner's conducting practices, his innovations in tempo and the art of transition, his creation of a new vocabulary to describe his art, and his success in establishing a school of conductors to promote his works and his aesthetic.
A digital edition of this book is openly available thanks to generous support from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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- Half Title
- p. i
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- pp. v-vi
- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xi-xiv
- Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xvi
- Author’s Note
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- PART I. Richard Wagner’s Writings on Conducting
- Chapter Three. About Conducting
- pp. 23-90
- 3a. About Conducting, continued
- pp. 91-108
- PART II. Critical Essay
- Bibliography
- pp. 275-290
- Index continued
- pp. 299-306
Additional Information
ISBN
9781800101890
MARC Record
OCLC
1252627937
Pages
324
Launched on MUSE
2021-11-03
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2021