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Jesus of Nazareth and Other Writings (Paperback)
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Near the end of his life, Richard Wagner supervised the publication
of his collected writings, providing an extensive view of his
thoughts about art and politics from his youth to his final period
of triumph. After his death, there was still more to be told: his
admirers discovered a large number of writings he had forgotten,
misplaced, never published, or had chosen to omit from his
collected works. This volume, the last of eight volumes now
reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press, collects the most
illuminating of those works. The title work, "Jesus of Nazareth,"
was written in 1848 or 1849; its composition coincided with the
most widespread revolutionary ferment seen in Europe. It expresses
Wagner's own revolutionary ideals, thoroughly justified (or so he
thought) by Jesus and the early Church. At the time Wagner
considered Jesus as a revolutionary leader whose struggles with
authority and traditions were much like his own.
The opening work is "Siegfried's Death," a poem written in 1848
that set the tone for his most famous operatic work, the tetralogy
"Der Ring des Nibelungen." Whole sections of the poem were later
incorporated into the fourth Ring opera, "Gotterdammerung," but the
differences are as revealing as the carryover. The essays that
Wagner published in journals but saw fit to exclude from his
"Gesammelte Schriften" might have embarrassed the elderly sage but
are key documents to Wagner's activities in his revolutionary
period. For example, his ardently prorevolutionary essay, "The
Revolution," would have displeased the wealthy patrons of his later
years. This edition includes the full text of volume 8 of the
translation of Wagner's works published in 1899 for the London
Wagner Society.
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