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| Named Person: | Richard Wagner |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Kinderman |
| ISBN: | 9780195366921 0195366921 |
| OCLC Number: | 857545824 |
| Description: | vi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Prelude: Parsifal as Art and Ideology (starting p. 3) -- pt. 1 The Process of Composition -- 1. The Poem: Its Background and Evolution (starting p. 47) -- Carlo Gozzi's La donna serpente (starting p. 47) -- The Paris and Dresden Periods (starting p. 51) -- Parzival as Wandering Pilgrim in Tristan und Isolde (starting p. 59) -- Kundry as a Mysterious Compound Being (starting p. 63) -- The Prose Draft of 1865 (starting p. 68) -- The Completion of the Text (starting p. 72) -- 2. The Genesis of the Music (starting p. 76) -- The "Dresden Amen" and "Excelsior!" Motives (starting p. 76) -- The Sketch Fragments and Their Reconstruction (starting p. 81) -- The Earliest Sketches (starting p. 90) -- The "Core of the Whole": the Music of the Grail (starting p. 94) -- The Relation of Sketches and Drafts (starting p. 104) -- Act 1 (starting p. 108) -- Act 2 (starting p. 132) -- Act 3 (starting p. 151) -- Revisions after April 1879 (starting p. 181) -- The Transformation Music of Act I (starting p. 185) -- pt. 2 Musical Form and Dramatic Meaning -- 3. Wagner's Late Style (starting p. 195) -- 4. Grail and Anti-Grail (starting p. 227) -- 5. The Sense of an Ending (starting p. 252) -- Selected Bibliography (starting p. 302) -- Index (starting p. 319) -- Acknowledgments (starting p. 325) |
| Series Title: | Studies in musical genesis, structure, and interpretation. |
| Responsibility: | William Kinderman. |
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This is a fascinating and well-written study of Wagners final masterpiece. * Nicholas Baragwanath, Music and Letters * Professor William Kinderman has given us a most comprehensive analysis of this complicated work ... Kinderman makes a reevaluation of the genesis of this important work and demolishes many traditional views about Parsifal. * German A. Bravo-Casas, wagneropera.net * William Kinderman points out, in his new book on Wagner's Parsifal, that the opera is arguably the 19th-century musical/dramatic work with the richest trove of documentary sources-sources that can enable us follow its creation with unprecedented precision...Kinderman is the first scholar to master all this material, even including numerous snippets of manuscript that Wagner cut out of his main working sheets as he thought of new musical ideas. Kinderman tells afascinating, if intricate story-a story told here fully for the first time, and one in which a deft combination of source study, analytical skill, and a deep understanding of Wagner and his work all illuminate the opera in fresh and engaging ways. This is a welcome, and musically sensitive contributionto Wagner scholarship. * Patrick McCreless, Yale University * a rich genetic study of Wagner's Parsifal ... [that] illuminates the dramatic content of the work in new and provocative ways ... this book is obligatory reading for Wagner listeners, as well as for readers interested in the creative process in general * Anna Stoll Knecht, The Wagner Journal * The best of the bicentennial books that I have examined...Elegantly written, drawing from cutting-edge scholarship and historical sources, Kinderman's study probes the genesis, literary roots, music and afterlives of Parsifal along with its many contradictions, chief among them that a work centering on compassion and reconciliation was one from which Hitler drew inspiration. * Marion Lignana Rosenberg, WQXR Operavore * I am eager with anticipation of this new book and will carry it with me for years to come! * Eric Halfvarson, Bass * Read more...
