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The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt - Dramaturgical Leaves: Richard Wagner (Hardcover)
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The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt - Dramaturgical Leaves: Richard Wagner (Hardcover)
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The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt: Dramaturgical Leaves:
Richard Wagner completes the second half of Liszt's writings about
stage works, its composers, and music drama. In this volume, Liszt
focuses on the works of his most controversial devotee and
son-in-law, Richard Wagner, whose music dramas Liszt championed as
conductor during his tenure in Weimar. Here, we see Liszt prove his
skill and expertise as a music critic, as well. He offers a
critical analysis of the aesthetic and musical principles that
underlie Wagner's operas, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, and The Flying
Dutchman, including a thorough discussion of Wagner's Leitmotif
system of composition. Additionally, his findings are substantiated
with a plethora of music examples, which will satisfy those who
wanted greater musical substance from his writings. He also
foretells the magnitude of Wagner's influence on prosperity in his
pamphlet-length essay, The Rhine's Gold. Finally, the editor and
translator of this volume, Janita Hall-Swadley, provides a unique
perspective on these same principles, which is based on Wagner's
own mysterious diagram of "The Philosopher's Stone," which was
supposed to be included in the original 1863 edition of the
composer's important writing, Opera and Drama, but never made it to
publication.
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