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100 1 $aWagner, Richard,$d1813-1883.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089831
240 10 $aLiterary works.$kSelections.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85266912
245 10 $aActors and singers /$cRichard Wagner ; translated by William Ashton Ellis.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c[1995]
300 $axviii, 383 pages :$bmusic ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Bison books"--P. preceding t.p.
500 $aOriginally published: Richard Wagner's prose works. Vol. 5, Actors and singers. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1896.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 00 $tTo the German Army before Paris (Poem) --$tA Capitulation --$tReminiscences of Auber --$tBeethoven --$tThe Destiny of Opera --$tActors and Singers --$tThe Rendering of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony --$tLetters and Minor Essays.$gI.$tLetter to an Actor.$gII.$tA Glance at the German Operatic Stage of To-day.$gIII.$tLetter to an Italian Friend on the Production of "Lohengrin" at Bologna.$gIV.$tTo the Burgomaster of Bologna.$gV.$tTo Friedrich Nietzsche.$gVI.$tOn the name "Musikdrama"$gVII.$tPrologue to a Reading of "Die Gotterdammerung before a select audience in Berlin --$tBayreuth.$gI.$tFinal Report on the Fates and Circumstances that attended the execution of the Stage-festival-play "Der Ring des Nibelungen" down to the founding of Wagner-societies.$gII.$tThe Festival-playhouse at Bayreuth, with an account of the Laying of its Foundation-stone.
520 1 $a"The essays collected in this volume were written between 1870 and 1873, years that brought a transformation in Germany. After Prussia's spectacular defeat of France, the coalescing of German states into a unified Germany, and Bismarck's declaration of the German Empire, Richard Wagner suddenly felt like a prophet whose predictions had come true before his eyes. At last the German culture he longed to enliven had a German state as grand as his own ambition.".
520 8 $a"In the same period Wagner was deeply inspired by the works of Shakespeare, an influence that runs throughout this volume. The title essay, "Actors and Singers," is one of Wagner's most deliberate and philosophical writings. He wrote, "Art ceases, strictly speaking, to be Art from the moment it presents itself as Art to our reflecting consciousness. " He described how the unconsciousness of art, and thus art's power, connected natural genius to cultivate traditions.
520 8 $aGerman genius, however, still lacked its own traditions. Wagner aimed to provide them." "Also included are Wagner's famous essay, "Beethoven"; his first publications concerning the nascent Bayreuth Festival Playhouse; his visionary "The Destiny of Opera"; and his letter to Friedrich Nietzsche responding to the publication of The Birth of Tragedy." "This edition includes the full text of volume 5 of the translation of Wagner's works published in 1896 for the London Wagner Society."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088808
650 0 $aMusic$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000179
700 1 $aEllis, William Ashton,$d1852-1919.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50009064
852 00 $bmus$hML410.W1$iA1266 1995