[humanities.music.composers.wagner] Wagner Books FAQ
Derrick Everett
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Summary: Bibliographical FAQ for newsgroup humanities.music.composers.wagner.
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Wagner Books FAQ for humanities.music.composers.wagner
This is the list of reference books for humanities.music.composers.wagner
(hmcw). Given that the primary language of the newsgroup is English, this
FAQ concentrates on titles that are available (although not necessarily in
print) in that language. A few books published in other languages, that
are not available in English translation, are included.
This booklist is a supplement to the main FAQ for hmcw which can be found at:
http://home.c2i.net/monsalvat/wagnerfaq.htm (HTML version)
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/wagner/general-faq/ (plain-text version)
Recently updated or new entries are marked with a * at the beginning of the
line in the table of contents. This version supersedes all previous versions.
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The bibliographic fields used are as follows:
%T Title. Except where otherwise indicated: where the book described is a
translation, the title of the translation appears first, followed by the
original title in the original language. Some books have alternative titles,
for example a US title and a UK title, or the respective titles of the paper-
back and hardback editions.
%M Language. Where the book described is a translation, this is the language
of the original, not the language of the book described. Where the book is
neither a translation nor in English, this field indicates the language,
which should be obvious from the %T field anyway. The original language is
not necessarily the language of first publication.
%A Author(s) or editor(s). The latter are indicated by (ed). Where the book
described is a translation there might be listed both the editor of the
original and the editor of the translation.
%F Translator(s).
%D Date of last known publication. Where relevant the date of original
publication is given in the %O field.
%C Place(s) of publication.
%I Publisher(s). Some of the books have been republished several times by
different publishers.
%G Identification. Usually this is an ISBN number or numbers. Older books
do not have ISBN numbers.
%S Series. Where appropriate.
%V Volume. Either the volume number (in a series) or the number of volumes.
%K Keywords. These are provided to assist searching.
%X Abstract. In some cases this is a mini-review of the book.
%O Other information. For example, who provided the foreword, or the date
of original publication in the language of first publication, with original
publisher where known.
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Table of Contents
I. Introductory reading
II. Biographies
A. Autobiography
B. Biographies of Richard Wagner
C. Biographies of Cosima Wagner
III. General Titles about Richard Wagner
IV. Books about Specific Works
A. Analysis and Commentary
B. Libretto Translations
V. Books about Specialised Topics
VI. Wagner's Own Writings
VII. Wagner Family and Bayreuth
VIII. Discographies
IX. Comics and Wagnerian Humour
A. Comics
B. Novels
X. Acknowledgements and Copyright
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Subject: I. Introductory Reading
If you know little or nothing about Richard Wagner or his works, then
these books are a good place to start.
%T Wagner Without Fear : Learning to Love - and Even Enjoy - Opera's Most
Demanding Genius
%A William Berger
%D 1998
%C New York
%I Vintage Books
%K Wagner Wagnerism Introduction
%X A gentle introduction to Wagner's works in general, and a more detailed
account of each of the ten stage works in the Bayreuth canon.
%T Richard Wagner's Music Dramas
%T Richard Wagners Musikdramen
%M German
%A Carl Dahlhaus
%F Mary Whittall
%D 1979
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN hbk 0 521 22397 0 pbk 0 521 42899 8
%K Analysis Essays
%X One essay for each of the ten stage works in the Bayreuth canon.
%O Originally published in 1971
%T Wagner Nights (UK title)
%T The Wagner Operas (US title)
%A Ernest Newman
%D 1977
%C London
%I Pan Books Ltd
%G ISBN 0 330 25070 1
%K Synopsis Analysis
%X An authoritative introduction to each of the ten operas in the Bayreuth
canon. Although this book provides a detailed summary both of the dramatic
action and the music, and useful information on the sources and the process
of creation respectively of each work, it provides no interpretation of the
dramas.
%O Originally published in 1949 but still relevant today.
%T Guide des Operas de Wagner
%A Michel Pazdro
%A Jean Cabourg
%A Dominique Jameux
%M French
%D 1988
%C Paris
%I Fayard
%K Guide French
%X Libretti with French translation, thematic guide, analysis, discography.
%O New edition.
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Subject: II. Biographies
Many biographies have been written about Richard Wagner: this list is
by no means exhaustive. There are also biographies of Cosima Wagner.
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Subject: A. Autobiography
%T My Life
%T Mein Leben
%M German
%A Richard Wagner
%A Martin Gregor-Dellin (ed)
%A Mary Whittall (ed)
%F Andrew Gray
%D 1983
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press 1983
%G ISBN 0 521 22929 4
%K Autobiography
%X Richard Wagner's autobiography, as dictated to Cosima. A limited
edition was published during Wagner's lifetime (Basle 1870-75;
Bayreuth 1881), but after Richard's death, it was recalled and most
copies were destroyed, on the orders of Cosima Wagner. First public
edition Munich 1911, second edition 1915, with some passages
suppressed. Critical edition 1963. Take it with a pinch of salt.
%O Originally published in 1870
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Subject: B. Biographies of Richard Wagner
%T Wagner, a Case History
%M German?
%A Martin van Amerongen
%F Stewart Spencer
%F Dominic Cakebread
%D 1984
%C New York
%I G. Braziller
%K Biography Amerongen
%X
%T Wagner, a Biography : with a Selection of Books, Editions and Recordings
%A Robert Anderson
%D 1980
%C London and Hamden, Conn.
%I C. Bingley, Linnet Books
%K Biography Anderson
%X
%T Wagner and his Music-Dramas
%A Robert C. Bagar
%D 1950
%C New York
%I Grosset & Dunlap
%K Biography Bagar
%X
%O Originally published in 1943.
%T Richard Wagner : His Life in His Work
%T Wagner: Das Leben im Werke
%M German
%A Paul Bekker
%F M. M. Bozman
%D 1981
%C London
%I Greenwood Publishing Group
%G ISBN 0 8371 3443 9
%K Biography Bekker
%X
%O Original version was published in 1924 and the translation in 1931.
%T Richard Wagner : His Life and Works from 1813 to 1834
%A Mary Burrell
%A John N. Burk (ed)
%D 1972
%C London
%I Vienna House Inc
%G ISBN 0 8443 0031 4
%K Biography Burrell
%X See also (section VI) the edition of letters collected by Burrell.
%O Originally published in 1898.
%T Richard Wagner
%T Richard Wagner : Mit zahlreichen Porträts, Faksimiles, Illustrationen
und Beilagen
%M German
%A Houston Stewart Chamberlain
%F George Ainslie Hight
%D 1900
%C London
%I J. M. Dent & Co.
%K Biography Chamberlain Hight
%V 2 volumes
%X
%O Originally published in 1896, Munich. Reprinted 1915, 1925.
%T Wagner
%A John Chancellor
%D 1978
%C London
%I Weidenfeld and Nicolson
%K Biography Chancellor
%X
%T Wagner, the Man and his Music
%A John Culshaw
%A Gerald Fitzgerald
%D 1978
%C New York
%I E. P. Dutton
%K Biography Culshaw Fitzgerald
%X
%T The New Grove Wagner
%A John Deathridge and Carl Dahlhaus
%D 1984
%C London
%I W. W. Norton & Co
%G ISBN 0 3933 1590 8 pbk
%K Biography Grove Deathridge Dahlhaus
%X A critical biography that destroys some of the myths created by Wagner
and later perpetuated by Glasenapp, Ellis and von Westernhagen.
%O Reprinted in 1997.
%T Life of Richard Wagner : Being an Authorized English Version of
'Das Leben Richard Wagners'
%M Earlier chapters originally written by Glasenapp in German.
%A William Ashton Ellis
%A Carl Friedrich Glasenapp
%D 1977
%C London
%I Da Capo Press Inc
%K Biography Ellis Glasenapp
%V 6 volumes
%X Glasenapp's biography translated into English and enlarged by Wm. Ashton
Ellis. Glasenapp is generally regarded as having continued the process of
myth-making that Wagner himself began in 'Mein Leben'.
%O Ellis's biography was riginally published 1900-08, Kegan Paul & Co.,
London. Glasenapp's biography was first published in 1894.
%T Wagner and His Works : the Story of his Life, with Critical Comments
%A Henry Theophilus Finck
%D 1968
%C New York
%I Greenwood Press
%K Biography Finck
%X
%O Originally published in 1893 by Charles Scribner's Sons, NY.
%T Richard Wagner : an Introduction
%A Isaac Goldberg
%D 1924
%C Girard, Kansas
%I Haldeman-Julius Company
%K Introduction Goldberg
%X
%T The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers : Wagner
%A Howard Gray
%D 1990
%C London, New York and Sydney
%I Omnibus Press
%G ISBN 0 7119 1687 X pbk
%K Biography Gray
%X Wagner's life in words and pictures.
%T Richard Wagner : His Life, His Work, His Century
%T Wagner-Chronik : Daten zu Leben und Werk
%M German
%A Martin Gregor-Dellin
%F J. Maxwell Brownjohn
%D 1983
%C London
%I
%K Biography Gregor-Dellin
%X Abridged version of the German original.
%T Richard Wagner : The Man, His Mind and His Music
%A Robert Gutman
%D 1968
%C London
%I Harcourt Brace
%G ISBN 0 1567 7615 4
%K Biography Gutman
%X Gutman has been criticized for selective quotation, for misrepresenting
his sources and for his interpretations of Wagner's operas. He portrays
Wagner as a sociopathic monster. Some Wagnerians, including the editor of
this FAQ, believe that Gutman has done great damage through his influence
on other authors and on producers of Wagner's works, many of whom regard
Gutman as authoritative even where he is demonstrably wrong.
%T Richard Wagner
%A Sir W. H. Hadow
%D 1934
%C London
%I T. Butterworth, Ltd.
%K Biography Hadow
%X
%T Richard Wagner, His Life and His Dramas : A Biographical Study of the
Man and an Explanation of His Work
%A William James Henderson
%D 1990
%C
%I Reprint Services Corporation
%G ISBN 0 7812 9098 8
%K Biography Henderson
%O Originally published in 1923 by G.P.Putnam's sons, NY and London.
Reprinted in 1971, AMS Press, NY.
%T Portrait of Wagner : an Illustrated Biography
%T Richard Wagner in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten
%M German
%A Hans Mayer
%F Robert Nowell
%D 1972
%C New York
%I Herder and Herder
%K Biography Mayer
%X
%T Wagner
%A Barry Millington
%D 1984
%C London
%I J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd
%G ISBN 0 460 86069 0
%S The Master Musicians
%K Biography Millington
%X Considered by many to be the best single-volume introduction to
Wagner's life and works. Millington is particularly concerned with
Wagner's anti-Semitic and racial obsessions; it has been suggested
that Millington is the one with the obsession. Appendices include
a detailed chronology and a bibliography.
%T The Life of Richard Wagner
%A Ernest Newman
%D 1976
%C Cambridge
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN 0 521 29149 6
%K Biography Newman
%V 4 volumes
%X Despite it being more than 50 years old, and written at a time when
many primary sources were suppressed or difficult to obtain, this is
still considered to be one of the most authoritative Wagner biographies
in English. Newman had his blind spots, however; as Bryan Magee has
pointed out, he was inaccurate when writing about Schopenhauer and his
influence on Wagner; and Walker described his treatment of Franz Liszt
as "character assassination".
%O Originally published in 1933-47
%T Wagner as Man and Artist
%A Ernest Newman
%D 1963
%C
%I Peter Smith Pub
%G ISBN 0 8446 2653 8
%K Artist Newman
%X
%O Originally published in 1924, also reprinted by Limelight Editions 1989.
%T Wagner
%A Elaine Padmore
%D 1971-1973
%C London and New York
%I Faber and Faber Ltd., T. Y. Crowell Co.
%K Biography Padmore
%X
%T Richard Wagner : the Story of an Artist
%T Wagner, histoire d'un artiste
%M French
%A Guy Comte de Pourtalès
%F Lewis May
%D 1972
%C Westport, Conn.
%I Greenwood Press
%K Biography Pourtalès Pourtales
%X
%O Originally published in 1932.
%T Richard Wagner
%A Robert Raphael
%D 1969
%C New York
%I Twayne Publishers
%K Biography Raphael
%X
%T Richard Wagner : Titan of Music
%A Monroe Stearns
%D 1969
%C New York
%I F. Watts
%K Biography Titan Stearns
%X
%T The Real Wagner
%A Rudolph Sabor
%D 1987
%C London
%I Andre Deutsch
%K Biography Real Sabor
%X This biographical study consists of a series of essays, each of them
considering a different aspect of Wagner's character.
%O Foreword by Wolfgang Wagner.
%T Wagner
%A Michael Tanner
%D 1995
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN 0 00 255532 8
%K Biography Tanner
%X This is more a series of essays than a complete biography. Tanner's
conservative and romantic viewpoint (he writes on opera for the
'Spectator') makes an interesting contrast to the more radical and
analytical approach of Millington, with whom Tanner has crossed swords.
%T Richard Wagner : His Life, Work and Thought
%A Ronald Taylor
%D 1979
%C London
%I
%K Biography Taylor
%X
%T Wagner
%A Walter James Turner
%D 1979
%C Westport, Conn.
%I Greenwood Press
%K Biography Turner
%X
%O Originally published in 1933 (London, Duckworth)
%T Richard Wagner as he Lived
%A William Wallace
%D 1933
%C London
%I Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner
%K Biography Wallace
%X
%T Richard Wagner : A Biography
%A Derek Watson
%D 1979
%C London
%I Dent
%G ISBN 0 460 03166 X
%K Biography Watson
%X
%T Wagner : A Biography
%T Wagner
%M German
%A Curt von Westernhagen
%F Mary Whittall
%D 1978
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN 0 5212 8254 3
%K Biography Westernhagen
%V 2 volumes
%X A conservative biography from a noted German scholar, who in the 1930s
had published a study of Wagner entitled, 'Richard Wagners Kampf gegen
seelische Fremdherrschaft' (Richard Wagner's Struggle against Spiritual
Foreign Domination). Even in 1968, Westernhagen still played down both
Wagner's revolutionary involvement in 1848-9, and referred to Wagner's
'alleged' anti-Semitism.
%O Originally published in 1968.
%T An introduction to the Life and Works of Richard Wagner
%A Chappell White
%D 1967
%C Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
%I Prentice-Hall
%K Introduction White
%X
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Subject: C. Biographies of Cosima Wagner
%T Cosima Wagner
%T Cosima Wagner : Ein Lebens- und Charakterbild
%M German
%A Richard Du Moulin-Eckart
%F Catherine Alison Phillips
%D 1995
%C Munich
%I Da Capo Press Inc
%K Biography Cosima Moulin-Eckart English
%V 2 volumes
%X The authorised biography of Cosima Wagner. With an introduction by
Ernest Newman. Introduction to the Da Capo edition by George Buelow.
%O Originally published 1929-31.
%T Cosima Wagner
%A George R. Marek
%D 1981-1983
%C New York and London
%I Julia MacRae Books
%G ISBN 0 86203 120 6
%K Biography Cosima Marek
%X
%T Richard and Cosima Wagner : Biography of a Marriage
%A Geoffrey Skelton
%D 1982
%C London
%I Victor Gollancz Ltd
%G ISBN 0 575 03017 8
%K Marriage
%X
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Subject: III. General Titles about Richard Wagner
These are general books about Wagner and his ideas, that do not fall into
the categories above.
%T The Ideas of Richard Wagner : An Examination and Analysis of his
Major Aesthetic, Political, Economic, Social, and Religious Thoughts
%A Alan Aberbach
%D 1988
%C Lanham and London
%I University Press of America
%G ISBN 0 8191 6855 6
%K Aberbach Ideas
%X As its sub-title indicates, this book examines and analyses the wide
range of ideas that Wagner absorbed, developed and in many cases made
his own. The author presents these ideas mainly in Wagner's own words,
as expressed in his prose works and letters. The book might be
considered a biographical supplement, since it traces the development
of Wagner's thoughts from optimistic youth through pessimistic middle-
age to irascible old-age. Addendum: 'The Ring of the Nibelung', an
interpretive guide.
%T Richard Wagner : A Mystic in the Making
%A Alan Aberbach
%D 1991
%C
%I Longwood Academic
%G ISBN 0 89341 662 2
%K Aberbach Mystic
%X
%T Richard Wagner's Religious Ideas : A Spiritual Journey (hbk)
%T Richard Wagner's Spiritual Pilgrimage (pbk)
%A Alan Aberbach
%D 1998
%C New York, Queenstown Ontario and Lampeter Wales
%I Edwin Mellen Press
%G ISBN 0 7734 8783 2 (hbk) 0 7734 8348 9 (pbk)
%K Aberbach Spiritual Pilgrimage
%X An in-depth examination of Richard Wagner's religious, spiritual and
mystical thoughts, intended to provide the reader
with a better understanding of his works. The author presents Richard
Wagner as a seeker and a pilgrim, whose thoughts about God, man's place
in the universe, and the individual and collective destinies of mankind
can be traced both in his writings and in his dramas. In this account
particular attention is given to two influences who have been largely
overlooked by Wagner biographers: the Sufi poet Hafiz, and the Domenican
mystic, Meister Eckhart.
%T In Search of Wagner
%T Versuch über Wagner
%M German
%A Theodor Adorno
%F Rodney Livingstone
%D 1981
%C London
%I Verso Books
%G ISBN 0 8609 1796 7
%K Adorno
%X A Marxist viewpoint on Wagner and his works. As far as the editor
has been able to establish, Adorno was the first writer to suggest
that Beckmesser and Klingsor might be Jewish caricatures.
%O Originally published in 1952, last reprinted in 1991
%T Wagner : A Documentary Study
%A Herbert Barth
%A Dietrich Mack (ed)
%A Egon Voss (ed)
%D 1975
%C London
%I
%K Documentary Barth
%X Preface by Pierre Boulez.
%T The Prodigious Lover : New Aspects in the Life of Richard Wagner
%T La vie amoureuse de Richard Wagner
%M French
%A Louis Barthou
%F Henry Irving Brock
%D 1927
%C New York
%I Duffield & Company
%K Love Barthou
%X
%T Mozart, Weber, and Wagner : With Various Essays on Musical Subjects
%M French
%A Hector Berlioz
%F Edwin Evans
%D 1986
%C New York
%I Somerset
%K Essays Berlioz
%X
%O Originally published in translation in 1918 (London, W. Reeves)
%T Richard Wagner : Theory and Theatre
%T Das Theater Richard Wagners
%M German
%A Dieter Borchmeyer
%F Stewart Spencer
%D 1991
%C Oxford UK
%I Oxford University Press
%G ISBN 0 19 315322 X
%K Theory Theatre
%X Discusses Richard Wagner's aesthetic theory, examining his prose
writings and his ideas on music drawn from various standpoints of
literature, the linking of ideas and the sociology of art. Also examines
the importance of Greek art and mythology and his links with major
figures in world theatre.
%O Originally published in 1982.
%T The Wagner Companion
%A Peter Burbidge (ed)
%A Richard Sutton (ed)
%D 1979
%C London
%I Faber
%G ISBN 0 571 10471 1
%K Companion Burbidge Sutton
%X
%T Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions : Hermeneutic Approaches to
Wagner's Music-Dramas
%A Mary A. Cicora
%D 2000
%C Westport, CT
%I Greenwood Publishing Group
%G ISBN 0 3133 0539 0
%K Hermeneutics Post-structuralism Cicora
%X
%T Wagner and the Reform of the Opera
%A Edward Dannreuther
%D 1904
%C London
%I Augener and Co.
%K Reform Dannreuther
%X
%T Richard Wagner : his Tendencies and Theories
%A Edward Dannreuther
%D 1873
%C London
%I Augener and Co.
%K Tendencies Dannreuther
%X
%T Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis : Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard
Wagners und ihrer Quellen : Erarbeitet im Rahmen der Richard Wagner-
Gesamtausgabe
%M German
%A John Deathridge (ed)
%A Martin Geck
%A Egon Voss
%A Isolde Vetter (ass.ed)
%D 1986
%C Mainz
%I Schott
%G ISBN 3 7957 2201 2
%K WWV Deathridge Geck Voss
%X The (almost) complete catalogue of Wagner's musical works, including
sketches, unfinished and lost works, and even some works for which text,
but no music, was written. For each of the works included, the catalogue
lists its title, subtitle, genre and, where appropriate, an indication of
key and the musical forces for which it was written. For the stage works,
it gives the locations of the action and role lists as they appear in
printed editions. Musical incipits are given for each work for which any
music has survived. Manuscripts are listed both for text (sketches, prose
drafts and poems) and for music (drafts, complete drafts and facsimiles).
Early printed editions of the full text and of scores (full, vocal and
extracts) are listed for each of the published works.
%T Wagner the Dramatist
%A Hugh Frederick Garten
%D 1985
%C London and New York
%I John Calder Ltd, Riverrun Press Inc.
%G ISBN 0 8476 6058
%K Dramatist Sources Garten
%X An account of Wagner's stage works and their sources.
%O First published in 1977.
%T Wagner at Home
%T Le collier des jours : le troisième rang du collier
%T Visites à Richard Wagner
%M French
%A Judith Gautier
%F Effie Dunreith Massie
%D 1910-1911
%C London and New York
%I Mills and Boon Ltd, John Lane Inc.
%K Gautier Reminiscences
%X
%O
%T Wagner's Musical Prose
%A Thomas S. Grey
%D 1995
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN 0 5214 1738 4
%S New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
%K Musical Prose
%X A study of the prose writings of Richard Wagner and their relevance to
an understanding of his music and drama, as well as their relation to music
criticism and aesthetics in the 19th century in general. Grey considers
Wagner's ambivalence concerning the idea of absolute music and the capacity
of music to project meaning or drama; Wagner's appropriation of a Beethoven
legacy, the metaphors of musical gender and biology in "Opera and Drama",
and the critical background to ideas of motive and leitmotif in theory and
practice.
%T Aus Eduard Hanslicks Wagner-Kritiken
%M German
%A Eduard Hanslick
%A Heinrich Kralik (ed)
%D 1947
%C Vienna and New York
%I Europa Verlag
%K Criticism Hanslick German
%X
%T Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future : History and Aesthetics
%A Franz Hueffer
%D 1971
%C Freeport, NY
%I Books for Libraries Press
%K Future Hueffer
%X
%O Originally published in 1874.
%T The Truth about Wagner
%A Philip Dutton Hurn
%A Waverley Lewis Root
%D 1930
%C New York
%I Frederick A. Stokes Company
%K Truth Hurn Root
%X
%T The Loves of Richard Wagner (UK title)
%T The Women in Wagner's Life (US title)
%T Richard Wagner und die Frauen
%M German
%A Julius Kapp
%D 1951
%C London
%I W.H. Allen
%K Loves Kapp English
%X
%T Richard Wagner : The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art: The 1998
Larkin-Stuart Lectures
%A M. Owen Lee
%D 1999
%C Toronto and New York
%I University of Toronto Press
%G ISBN 0 8020 4721 1
%K Essays Lee
%X Discusses various aspects of Wagner and his influence.
%T Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen
%A David J. Levin
%D 1999
%C Princeton
%I Princeton Univ Press
%G ISBN 0 6910 4971 8
%K Nibelungen Levin
%X Levin explores the uses that have been made of the Nibelung legend in
shaping German national and cultural identity. He seeks and finds anti-
Semitic messages both in Wagner's "Ring" and in Lang's "Nibelungen"; but
makes no mention of the inconvenient fact that Lang was of Jewish descent
or that he fled Germany when his work was banned by the Nazis.
%T Who's Who and What's What in Wagner
%A Jonathan Lewsey
%D 1997
%C Brookfield VT
%I Ashgate Publishing Company
%G ISBN 1 8592 8280 6
%K Who What
%X
%T Aspects of Wagner
%A Bryan Magee
%D 1988
%C Oxford
%I Oxford University Press
%G ISBN 0 1928 4012 6
%K Essays Magee
%X Magee tries to understand and explain both Wagner and responses to him.
%O Originally published in 1968.
%T Pro and Contra Wagner
%T Wagner und unsere Zeit
%M German
%A Thomas Mann
%F Allan Blunden
%D 1985
%C London and Chicago
%I Faber
%G ISBN 0 571 13150 6
%K Mann
%X With an introduction by Erich Heller.
%T The Wagner Compendium : A Guide to Wagner's Life and Music
%A Barry Millington (ed)
%D 1992
%C London
%I Thames and Hudson, Macmillan
%G ISBN 0 0287 1359 1
%K Compendium
%X Includes a detailed list of Wagner's writings and a general
bibliography.
%T Wagner Handbook
%A Ulrich Müller
%A Peter Wapnewski
%F John Deathridge
%D 1992
%C Cambridge MA
%I Harvard University Press
%G ISBN 0 6749 4530 1
%K Handbook
%X
%T Personal Recollections of Wagner
%T Erinnerungen an Richard Wagner
%M German
%A Angelo Neumann
%D 1909
%C London
%I
%K Recollections Neumann
%X
%O Originally published in 1907, Leipzig.
%T Wagner as I Knew Him
%A Ferdinand Praeger
%D 1892
%C London
%I Longmans, Green and Co.
%K Praeger Reminiscences
%X
%T Wagner and His Operas
%A Stanley Sadie
%D 1999
%C London
%I St Martins Press
%G ISBN 0 3122 4432 0
%K Operas Sadie
%X
%T Imagined Germany : Richard Wagner's National Utopia
%A Hannu Salmi
%D 1999
%C New York
%I Peter Lang Publishing
%G ISBN 0 8204 4416 2
%S German Life and Civilization
%V 29
%K Germany Politics Bismarck
%X
%T Wagner Remembered
%A Stewart Spencer
%D 2000
%C London
%I Faber and Faber Ltd
%G ISBN 0 571 19653 5
%K Remembered
%X Richard Wagner as portrayed in the memoirs and diaries of relatives,
friends and fellow musicians. Including Queen Victoria, King Ludwig and
Giacomo Meyerbeer.
%T Richard Wagner and the Synthesis of the Arts
%A Jack M. Stein
%D 1973
%C Detroit
%I Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
%G ISBN 0 8371 6806 6
%K Synthesis Stein
%X
%O Originally published in 1960.
%T Musical Structures in Wagnerian Opera
%A Marshall Tuttle
%D 2001
%C New York, Queenstown Ontario and Lampeter Wales
%I Edwin Mellen Press
%G ISBN 0 7734 7642 3
%S Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music
%V 65
%K Analysis Tuttle
%X
%T Wagner Opera
%A Audrey Williamson
%D 1982
%C London and New York
%I John Calder Ltd, Riverrun Press Inc.
%G ISBN 0 7145 0603 6
%K Biography Works Williamson
%X A guide to Wagner's stage works with a short biography.
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Subject: IV. Books about Specific Works
These titles are either devoted to specific works, or to a set of works, by
Richard Wagner.
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Subject: A. Analysis and Commentary
%T Richard Wagner : Prelude and Transfiguration from 'Tristan und Isolde'
%A Robert Bailey
%D 1985
%C New York
%I
%S Norton Critical Scores
%G ISBN 0 3939 5405 6
%K Tristan Bailey
%X For a "critical score" there are too many misprints in the music.
Some of the essays are valuable.
%T Wagner's Parsifal : The Journey of a Soul
%A Peter Bassett
%D 2001
%C Kent Town, South Australia
%I Wakefield Press
%G ISBN 1 86254 512 X pbk
%K Parsifal Bassett
%X A long-overdue, perceptive and balanced study of Wagner's 'Parsifal'.
For Bassett the message of this work is that human salvation is to be
achieved not through the satisfaction of worldly desires but through
compassion. Wagner shows Parsifal's inner journey towards enlightenment
through compassion, in which he is able to ease the burdens of others.
Bassett has looked at the relationship between Wagner's sources and his
text, which is shown to owe more to those sources than many people suspect.
He limits his study to the medieval sources, however, overlooking the
allusions in Wagner's text to contemporary literature. In contrast to the
study by Lucy Beckett (see below), Peter Bassett paints a balanced picture
of the world-view behind 'Parsifal', taking into account Wagner's interest
in Buddhism and the impact that Buddhist ideas had upon Wagner in general
and this work in particular. Includes a synopsis, a prose translation of
the libretto, a chronological table and a short bibliography.
%T Richard Wagner : Parsifal
%A Lucy Beckett (ed)
%A Arnold Whittall
%D 1981
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN 0 521 22825 5 hbk 0 521 29662 5 pbk
%S Cambridge Opera Handbooks
%K Parsifal Beckett
%X Beckett approaches 'Parsifal' as a profoundly and exclusively Christian
work; a view that some people, including the editor of this FAQ, find
unsatisfactory. Includes a thorough review of the reception history of
'Parsifal'. Whittall contributes some insightful comments on the score.
Unfortunately, by separating their analysis of text and music, the authors
fail to see how these are connected.
%T Ring of Power : The Abandoned Child, the Authoritarian Father, and
the Disempowered Feminine
%A Jean Shiboda Bolen
%D 1992
%C San Francisco
%I HarperCollins
%G ISBN 0 06 250086 4 pbk
%K Ring Bolen Jungian
%X A Jungian understanding of Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Bolen uses the
characters and situations of the 'Ring' as a starting point to discuss
Jungian ideas, without casting much light on the 'Ring' in the process.
%T The Sources and Text of Richard Wagner's Opera 'Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg'
%A Anna Maude Bowen
%D 1897
%C Munich
%K Meistersinger Mastersingers Sources
%X
%O Reprinted 1977.
%T 'Parsifal' Reception in the Bayreuther Blätter
%A Mary A. Cicora
%D 1987
%C Frankfurt am Main, Berne and New York
%I Peter Lang Publishing
%G ISBN 0 8204 0385 7
%K Parsifal Bayreuth Cicora
%X Originally a doctoral thesis.
%T Mythology as Metaphor : Romantic Irony, Critical Theory, and Wagner's Ring
%A Mary A. Cicora
%D 1998
%C Westport, CT
%I Greenwood Publishing Group
%G ISBN 0 3133 0528 5
%K Ring Romantic Critical Post-structuralism Cicora
%X An original interpretation of the Ring tetralogy that
challenges the standard political analyses of the work.
%T Wagner's Ring and German Drama
%A Mary A. Cicora
%D 1999
%C Westport, CT
%I Greenwood Publishing Group
%G ISBN 0 3133 0529 3
%K Ring German Drama Post-structuralism Cicora
%X The relationships of the Ring to the German drama tradition.
%T I Saw the World End : A Study of Wagner's Ring
%A Deryck Cooke
%A Jacqueline Cooke (ed)
%D 1979
%C Oxford
%I Oxford University Press
%G ISBN 0 19 315318 1
%K Ring Cooke
%X Sadly, Deryck Cooke died without completing this fascinating study.
%T A memoir of Bayreuth 1876 related by Carl Emil Doeppler
%A Peter Cook
%D 1979
%C London
%G ISBN 0 9504360 1 1
%K Bayreuth Costumes Döppler Doppler Doeppler
%X Including colour illustrations of his costume designs for the first
production of the 'Ring'.
%T An Introduction to Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' :
A Handbook
%A William O. Cord
%D 1995
%C Athens OH
%I Ohio University Press
%G ISBN 0 8214 1112 8
%K Ring Cord
%X An overview of the mythology, of the history of Bayreuth, a list of
related characters in mythology, a bibliography, a discography,
biographies of the 1876 cast, a diagram of the relationships between the
characters and more.
%T The Teutonic Mythology of Richard Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelung'
%A William O. Cord
%D 1989
%C New York, Queenstown Ontario and Lampeter Wales
%I Edwin Mellen Press
%G ISBN 0 8894 6443 X
%K Mythology Cord
%X
%T Wagner and the New Consciousness : Language and Love in the 'Ring'
%A Sandra Corse
%D 1990
%C Cranbury, NJ
%I Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
%G ISBN 0 8386 3378 1
%K Language Love Corse
%X
%T Ring Resounding : the Recording in Stereo of Der Ring des Nibelungen
%A John Culshaw
%D 1967
%C London
%I Secker and Warburg
%K Ring Recording Decca Culshaw
%X
%T Reflections on Wagner's Ring
%A John Culshaw
%D 1976
%C New York
%I Viking Press
%K Ring Reflections Culshaw
%X
%T Wagner's Das Rheingold
%A Warren Darcy
%D 1993
%C Oxford
%I Oxford University Press
%G ISBN 0 1981 6603 6
%K Rheingold Darcy
%X A musical analysis of Das Rheingold, drawing on Lorenz and Schenker.
%T Penetrating Wagner's Ring : An Anthology
%A John Louis DiGaetani (ed)
%D 1991
%C Cranbury NJ and London
%I Da Capo Press
%G ISBN 0 306 80437 9 (pbk)
%K Ring Essays DiGaetani
%X Essays on the 'Ring'.
%O Originally published in 1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press.
%T Wagner's Ring and its Symbols : The Music and the Myth
%A Robert Donington
%D 1963
%C London
%I Faber and Faber Ltd
%G ISBN 0 571 04818 8
%K Ring Donington Jungian
%X This is a Jungian, depth-psychology interpretation of the 'Ring'.
Love it or hate it, folks.
%T Parsifal : the Guileless Fool
%A Howard Duffield
%D 1904
%C New York
%I Dodd, Mead, and Co.
%K Fool Duffield
%X
%T Wagner and Aeschylus : The 'Ring' and the 'Oresteia'
%A Michael Ewans
%D 1982
%C London
%I Faber and Faber
%G ISBN 0 571 11808 9
%K Aeschylus
%X Wagner read Aeschylus' trilogy shortly before beginning work on his
'Ring'. In his autobiography Wagner wrote that his ideas about the
significance of drama and of the theatre had been moulded by his
response to this classical masterpiece. Ewans shows how it influenced
Wagner at many levels, from the basic idea of developing a festival
drama, as Aeschylus had done, from mythical materials, through to the
selection and treatment of the subject matter in the 'Ring'. Ewans
argues for a broad correspondence between the opening chorus of the
'Agamemnon' and Wagner's "preliminary evening", between the remainder of
that first play and 'Die Walküre' and between 'The Libation Bearers' and
'Siegfried'. Where the respective concluding dramas are concerned, the
contrasts between 'Eumenides' and 'Götterdämmerung' are at least as
significant as their affinities. In an appendix Ewans dismisses the
argument that 'Prometheus Bound' (previously attributed to Aeschylus)
was an influence on Wagner's 'Ring'.
%T Wagner in Rehearsal 1875-1876 : The Diaries of Richard Fricke
%T 1876, Richard Wagner auf der Probe : das Bayreuther Tagebuch
des Ballettmeisters und Hilfregisseurs Richard Fricke
%M German
%A Richard Fricke
%F George Fricke
%A James Andrew Deaville (ed)
%A Evan Baker (ass.)
%D 1998
%C
%I Pendragon Press
%G ISBN 0 945 19386 6
%S Franz Liszt Studies Series
%V 7
%K Ring Rehearsals 1876
%X Notes by one of the Wagner's production team.
%T Richard Wagner, 'Rienzi' to 'Parsifal'
%T Richard Wagner et son oeuvre poétique depuis Rienzi jusqu'à Parsifal
%M French
%A Judith Gautier
%D 1983
%C New York
%I Da Capo Press
%K Operas Gautier
%X
%O Originally published in 1883.
%T Wagner's Operas
%A Lawrence Gilman
%D 1937
%C New York and Toronto
%I Farrar and Rinehart, Inc.
%K Operas Gilman
%X
%T Richard Wagner : Der Fliegende Holländer
%A Thomas S. Grey (ed)
%D 2000
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge Univ Press
%G ISBN 0 5215 8285 7
%S Cambridge Opera Handbooks
%K Holländer Hollander Hollaender Dutchman Grey
%X
%T The musical dramas of Richard Wagner
%A Paul H. Grummann
%D 1930
%C Lincoln, Nebraska
%I University of Nebraska Press
%K Dramas Grummann
%X
%T Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' : an Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
%A George Ainslie Hight
%D 1912
%C London
%I S. Swift and Co. Ltd.
%K Tristan Hight
%X
%T Wagner's Ring : A Listener's Guide and Concordance
%A J.K. Holman
%D 1996
%C Portland OR
%I Amadeus Press
%G ISBN 1 5746 7014 X
%K Ring Holman
%X Background, synopses, leading motives, characters, and a concordance
of 169 key words as they are used in the text of the cycle.
%T Tannhäuser : An Examination of Thirty-Six Editions
%A Cecil Hopkinson
%D 1973
%C Tutzing
%I Schneider
%G ISBN 3 7952 0122 5
%K Tannhäuser Hopkinson
%X
%T How to Understand Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
%A Gustav Kobbé
%D 1991
%C
%I Reprint Services Corporation
%G ISBN 0 7812 9341 3
%K Ring Kobbé Kobbe
%X
%O Originally published by William Reeves, London, in 1895.
%T Wagner's Ring : Turning the Sky Round
%A M. Owen Lee
%D 1990
%C New York
%I Summit Books (distributed by Simon and Schuster Inc.)
%G ISBN 0 8791 0186 5
%K Ring Lee
%X An edited transcript of interval talks. Includes a discography.
%O Reprinted by Limelight Editions, 1994.
%T The View from Afar
%T Le Regard Eloigné
%M French
%A Claude Lèvi-Strauss
%F Joachim Newgroschel
%F Phoebe Hoss
%D 1985
%C New York and Oxford
%I Basic Books Inc and Basil Blackwell Ltd
%G ISBN 0 631 13966 4
%K Ring Parsifal Levi-Strauss
%X Contains the essays, 'A Note on the Tetralogy' and 'From Chrétien de
Troyes to Richard Wagner'.
%O Originally published in 1983.
%T Das Geheimnis der Form bei Richard Wagner
%M German
%A Alfred Ottokar Lorenz
%D 1924-1933
%C Berlin
%I Hesse Vorlag
%K Form Lorenz
%V 4 volumes (Ring, Tristan, Meistersinger, Parsifal)
%X A classic analysis of Wagner's later stage works, in terms of simple
forms such as the 'bar' and the 'arch'.
%T Richard Wagner and the Nibelungs
%A Elizabeth Magee
%D 1990
%C Oxford and New York
%I Oxford University Press
%G ISBN 0 19 816190 5
%K Ring Sources Dresden
%X A comprehensive account of Wagner's reading and research during the
creation of his texts for the 'Ring', developed from the author's
doctoral thesis. In addition to the catalogue of Wagner's personal
library at Dresden, Magee studied the loan records of the Royal Library
there, to develop a chronology of Wagner's reading during the last
years before his exile.
%T Wagner's Siegfried : Its Drama, History and Music
%A Patrick McCreless
%D 1982
%C Ann Arbor MI
%I UMI Research Press
%S Studies in Musicology
%V 59
%K Siegfried McCreless
%X A musical analysis of 'Siegfried', using Schenkerian techniques.
%T Analyzing Wagner's Operas : Alfred Lorenz and the German Nationalist
Ideology
%A Stephen McClatchie
%D 1998
%C Rochester NY
%I University of Rochester Press
%G ISBN 1 5804 6023 2
%K Lorenz McClatchie
%X Developed from the author's doctoral thesis, 'Alfred Lorenz as
Theorist and Analyst'.
%T Wagner in Performance
%A Barry Millington (ed)
%A Stewart Spencer (ed)
%D 1992
%C Yale and London
%I Yale University Press
%G ISBN 0 3000 5718 0
%K Performance Essays
%X A collection of essays by ten different authors.
%T Opera Guides
%A John Nicholas (ed)
%D 1980-
%C London and New York
%I John Calder Ltd, Riverrun Press Inc.
%K Tristan Holländer Meistersinger Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung
Parsifal Rheingold Tannhäuser
%S ENO/ROH Opera Guides
%V 6, 12, 19, 21, 28, 31, 34, 35, 39
%X Each of these pocket-size books contains a synopsis, essays, a
thematic guide, an English translation of the libretto, a discography and
a short bibliography, related to the work.
%T Wagner's Most Subtle Art : An Analytic Study of Tristan und Isolde
%A Roger North
%D 1999
%C London
%I Roger North
%G ISBN 0 9527975 1 8
%K Tristan Analysis
%X This 700-page study of Wagner's score is surely the most thorough
analysis ever attempted of any of Wagner's works. North shows that
behind the leitmotiven that dominate the analyses of Wolzogen, Lorenz
and others, the musical material of 'Tristan' was developed from three
simple figures, all heard in the Prelude. In the first edition there
are many misprints in the musical examples; look for the second edition.
%O Originally published in 1996.
URL: < http://www.roger.north.btinternet.co.uk >
%T The Complete Operas of Richard Wagner
%A Charles Osborne
%D 1990
%C New York and London
%I Da Capo Press, Victor Gollancz
%G ISBN 0 3068 0522 7, ISBN 0 5750 5380 1
%K Complete Operas Osborne
%X A guide to Wagner's operas (including the three early ones). Osborne's
view of Wagner and his works is heavily influenced by Gutman.
%T Wagner Rehearsing the Ring : An Eye-Witness Account of the
Stage Rehearsals of the First Bayreuth Festival
%T Die Bühnenproben zu den Bayreuther Festspielen des Jahres 1876
%M German
%A Heinrich Porges
%F Robert L. Jacobs
%D 1983
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN 0 521 23722 X
%K Ring Rehearsals Porges
%X Notes taken in the Festspielhaus while Wagner directed his 'Ring'.
%O Originally published between 1881 and 1896.
%T The Dream of Self-Destruction : Wagner's 'Ring' and the Modern World
%A Lelland Joseph Rather
%D 1979
%C Baton Rouge and London
%I Louisiana University State Press
%K Destruction Rather
%X
%T Wagner and 'Die Meistersinger'
%A Robert Macey Rayner
%D 1940
%C London
%I Oxford University Press
%K Meistersinger Mastersingers Rayner
%X
%T New Studies in Richard Wagner's 'the Ring of the Nibelung'
%A Herbert Warren Richardson
%D 1991
%C Seattle WA
%I Edwin Mellen Press
%G ISBN 0 8894 6445 6
%K Ring Richardson
%X Papers presented at the 1988 Wagner conference in Seattle exploring
this cycle as music, myth, theatre art, and literature, including such
topics as dialectical materialism in the 'Ring', the psychological
development of Brünnhilde and the influence of Wagner's cycle on Eliot
and Hitler respectively.
%T The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
%A George Bernard Shaw
%D 1967
%C New York
%I Dover Publications
%G ISBN 0 4862 1707 8 pbk
%K Ring Shaw
%X An idiosyncratic interpretation of the 'Ring'.
%O Originally published in 1898, reprinted 1923.
%T Redemption or Annihilation? : Love versus Power in Wagner's Ring
%A John Tietz
%D 1999
%C New York
%I Peter Lang Publishing
%G ISBN 0 8204 4148 1
%K Tietz Ring Love Power
%X
%T Richard Wagner : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
%A John Warrack (ed)
%A Michael Tanner
%A Lucy Beckett
%A Patrick Carnegy
%D 1994
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN 0 521 44444 6 hbk 0 521 44895 6 pbk
%S Cambridge Opera Handbooks
%K Meistersinger Mastersingers Warrack
%X John Warrack traces the evolution of 'Die Meistersinger' from plans for
a light comic opera or "satyr-play", through all the drafts and literary
influences on them, into the eventual comedy; he then presents an analysis
of the music, and investigates what Wagner found in the historical Master-
singers and their music. Lucy Beckett contributes an insightful essay into
the influence of Schopenhauer and the changes that this brought about in
the work as it developed. She also explores the complexity of expression
in the work. Michael Tanner suggests new ways of interpreting the opera's
inner and outer worlds. Patrick Carnegy provides a stage history.
Includes a synopsis, bibliography and three appendices: versions of the
'Wahn' monologue, Sachs' final address, and the Prize Song respectively.
%T The Forging of the 'Ring'
%T Die Entstehung des 'Ring'
%M German
%A Curt von Westernhagen
%F Arnold Whittall
%A Mary Whittall (ed)
%D 1976
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%K Ring Westernhagen
%X The first systematic investigation of Wagner's sketches for the 'Ring'.
Von Westernhagen, taking each of the four dramas in turn, compares the
sketches with the finished score. He shows how far the original inspirations
were preserved, clarified or modified in the process of forging the 'Ring'.
%O Originally published in 1973
%T The Legends of the Wagner Drama : Studies in Mythology and Romance
%A Jessie Laidlay Weston
%D 1896, 1900
%C London and New York
%I D. Nutt Ltd, Scribner's Sons Inc.
%K Mythology Romance Weston
%X In his 'Ring' and in several other dramas ('Tannhäuser', 'Lohengrin',
'Tristan und Isolde' and 'Parsifal') Wagner drew upon the riches of
medieval literature. Jessie Weston is remembered mainly for her studies
of the Grail legend (in books such as 'The Quest of the Holy Grail', 'The
Legend of Sir Perceval' and 'From Ritual to Romance') and as a translator
into English of Wolfram's epic poem 'Parzival'. Weston was a dedicated
Wagnerian, regularly attending the Bayreuth Festival between 1890 and 1926.
In this book she reviewed the medieval sources both in their own right and
as sources used by Wagner. While some of her ideas have been discarded or
modified by later scholars, Weston's account of the medieval romances
remains as readable and interesting as it was on its publication a century
ago. Her insight into Wagner's use of the sources is intelligent and often
enlightening.
%O For a more detailed treatment of the medieval sources of 'Tristan und
Isolde' and 'Parsifal' respectively the reader with sufficient knowledge
of German will benefit from the respective studies by Wolfgang Golther
('Tristan und Isolde in der Dichtungen des Mittelalters und der neuen
Zeit', 1907, 'Parzival und der Gral in der Dichtungen des Mittelalters und
der Neuzeit', 1925).
%T The Turning Wheel : A Study of Contracts and Oaths in Wagner's Ring
%A David A. White
%D 1988
%C Selinsgrove, London and Toronto
%I Susquehanna University Press and Associated University Presses
%G ISBN 0 9416 6489 9
%K Contract Oath
%X For the legally minded.
%T Speaking to Our Condition : Moral Frameworks in Wagner's 'Ring of the
Nibelung'
%A Anthony Winterbourne
%D 2000
%C Cranbury, NJ
%I Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
%G ISBN 0 8386 3847
%K Ring Morality Ethics Winterbourne
%X
%T Guide through the Music of R. Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung
%M German
%A Hans von Wolzogen
%D 1882
%C London
%I
%K Leitmotiv Leitmotif Leitmotive
%X Wolzogen is credited with inventing the term 'leitmotiv' and his
analysis of Wagner's works is largely a guide to the leitmotiven and
their evolution. Many of the names given to these 'musical calling
cards' by Wolzogen (such as 'Inheritance of the World' or 'Sea-motif')
have stuck, whether we like it or not.
%T The First Hundred Years of Wagner's Tristan
%A Elliot Zuckerman
%D 1964
%C New York and London
%I Columbia University Press
%K Tristan Century Staging
%X
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Subject: B. Libretto Translations
Some of these translations are accompanied by extensive commentary.
%T The Ring of the Nibelungen
%F William Mann
%D 1964
%C London
%I Centurion Press Ltd
%K Ring Libretto Translation Mann
%V 4 volumes
%X An accurate translation of the Ring. Also issued with the Furtwängler
RAI recording of the cycle.
%O Originally published by the Friends of Covent Garden.
%T Richard Wagner : 'The Ring'
%F Andrew Porter
%D 1976
%C London
%I W W Norton and Co
%G ISBN 0 3930 0867 3
%K Ring Libretto Translation Porter
%X A singable translation of the 'Ring'. The English text of each the
'Ring' operas was reprinted in the separate ENO/ROH Opera Guides for each
of those operas.
%T Der Ring des Nibelungen : A Companion, Translation and Commentary
%A Rudolph Sabor
%D 1997
%C London
%I Phaidon
%G ISBN 0 7148 3650 8
%K Ring Translation Synopsis Analysis Sabor
%V 5 volumes
%X Includes a new translation of the 'Ring', scene-by-scene synopses,
explanation of leitmotifs, bibliographies, discographies, and
commentary on the action.
%T Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung : The Full German Text with a New
Translation and Commentaries
%F Stewart Spencer
%A Barry Millington (ed)
%D 1993
%C London
%I Thames and Hudson
%G ISBN 0 500 01567 8
%K Ring Libretto Translation Commentary Essays Spencer
%X An annotated translation of the 'Ring' including deleted text, with
related essays.
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Subject: V. Books about Specialised Topics
%T Adolphe Appia : Oevres complètes
%M French
%A Adolphe Appia
%A Marie L. Bablet-Hahn (ed)
%M French
%D 1983-1992
%C Lausanne
%I L'Age d'Homme
%K Appia Staging
%V 4 volumes
%X With an introduction by Denis Bablet.
%T Adolphe Appia : Essays, Scenarios and Designs
%M French
%A Adolphe Appia
%F Richard C. Beacham (ed)
%F Walther R. Volbach
%D 1989
%C Ann Arbor, Michigan
%I UMI Research Press
%G ISBN 0 8357 1945 6
%K Appia Staging Essays English
%X
%T Adolphe Appia : Texts on Theatre
%M French
%A Adolphe Appia
%F Richard C. Beacham
%D 1983-1992
%C London and New York
%I Routledge
%K Appia Staging Selections English
%X
%T 'The Work of Living Art' and 'Man is the Measure of all Things'
%M French
%A Adolphe Appia
%F Barnard Hewitt (ed)
%F H.D.Albright
%D 1960
%C Coral Gables, FL
%I Univ. of Miami Press
%K Appia Living Art Measure English
%X
%T Adolphe Appia's 'Music and the Art of the Theatre'
%T Die Musik und die Inscenierung
%T La Musique et la Mise en Scène
%M Written in French but first published in German
%A Adolphe Appia
%F Barnard Hewitt (ed)
%F Robert W. Corrigan
%F Mary Douglas Dirks
%D 1962
%C Coral Gables, FL
%I Univ. of Miami Press
%G ISBN 0 870 24306 3
%K Appia Music Theatre English
%X The book in which Appia presented his theories about the staging of
Wagner's "word-tone dramas". Appia dared to criticise Wagner: while
recognising his genius as musician and poet, Appia thought Wagner to
have been limited in his concepts of staging. Appia proposed an
hierarchy of scenic elements, with the actor at the top of this
hierarchy. All inessentials were to be removed from the staging and,
since the actor was a three-dimensional creature, also the elements of
the staging should be three-dimensional with the possible exception of
the backdrop (although his ideal stage would have no back wall, just
extend away into the landscape). Appia was one of the first designers to
understand the potential of stage lighting to do more than merely
illuminate actors and painted scenery. At the end of the book are
appendices in which Appia showed how his techniques could be applied to
'Tristan und Isolde' and to the 'Ring' respectively. Appia's text is
often obscure and in the earlier chapters he deals mostly in
abstractions, which only in the later chapters become more concrete as
he supplies examples of present and future stage techniques. It can
sometimes appear that he contradicts himself. There are many
digressions, including comparisons between the German and "Latin"
spectators, artists and theatres.
%O Originally published (in German) in 1899.
%T Wagner and Russia
%A Rosamund Bartlett
%D 1994
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN 0 5214 4071 8
%S Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
%K Russia
%X
%T Women and the Changing Concept of Salvation in the Operas of Richard
Wagner
%A Jeffrey Peter Bauer
%D 1994
%C Anif, Salzburg
%I Verlag Ursula Müller-Speiser
%G ISBN 3 85145 020 5
%K Women Salvation
%X
%T Leitmotiv and Drama : Wagner, Brecht and the Limits of Epic Theatre
%A Hilda Meldrum Brown
%D 1991
%C Oxford
%I Oxford University Press
%G ISBN 0 1981 6227 8 hbk
%K Brecht Brown
%X
%T Richard Wagner and the Modern British Novel
%A John Louis DiGaetani
%D 1978
%C Cranbury NJ and London
%I Associated University Press, Fairleigh Dickinson
%G ISBN 0 8386 1955 X
%K Novel DiGaetani
%X
%T Wagner and Nietzsche
%T Wagner und Nietzsche : der Mystagoge und sein Abtrünniger
%M German
%A Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
%F Joachim Neugroschel
%D 1976-1978
%C New York and London
%I Seabury Press
%G ISBN 0 8164 9280 8
%K Nietzsche Fischer-Dieskau
%X
%O Originally published in 1974, Stuttgart.
%T Wagner and Literature
%A Raymond Furness
%D 1982
%C Manchester
%I Manchester University Press
%G ISBN 0 312 85347 5
%K Literature Furness
%X
%T The Fertilizing Seed : Wagner's Concept of Poetic Intent
%A Frank W. Glass
%D 1982
%C Ann Arbor MI
%I
%K Seed Glass
%X Discusses Wagner's theories as presented in 'Oper und Drama'.
%T Schiller and Wagner : a Study of their Dramatic Theory and Technique
%A Marie Haefliger Graves
%D 1938
%C Ann Arbor, MI
%I
%K Schiller Graves
%X
%O Reprinted in 1947
%T Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism
%A Roger Hollinrake
%D 1982
%C London
%I Allen and Unwin
%G ISBN 0 04 921029 7
%K Nietzsche Schopenhauer Philosophy Hollinrake
%X
%T Wagner and Debussy
%A Robin Holloway
%D 1979
%C London
%I Eulenburg
%G ISBN 0 903873 25 7
%K Debussy
%X
%T The Influence of Shakespeare on Richard Wagner
%A Margaret Inwood
%D 2000
%C New York, Queenstown Ontario and Lampeter Wales
%I Edwin Mellen Press
%G ISBN 0 7734 7774 8
%S Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music
%V 64
%K Shakespeare
%X
%T The Darker Side of Genius : Richard Wagner's Anti-Semitism
%T Richard Wagner : Vorbote des Antisemitismus
%M German?
%A Jacob Katz
%D 1986
%C Hanover NH
%I University Press of New England
%G ISBN 0 87451 368 5
%S Tauber Institute for the study of European Jewry series
%K Anti-Semitism Katz
%X Katz considers both the role of Richard Wagner in the history of
modern anti-Semitism and the role of anti-Semitism in the life of Richard
Wagner.
%T Nietzsche and Wagner : A Lesson in Subjugation
%A Joachim Köhler
%F Ronald Taylor
%D 1998
%C New Haven and London
%I Yale University Press
%G ISBN 0 3000 7640 1
%K Nietzsche Köhler Kohler
%X A controverial study of the relationships between Richard and Cosima
Wagner and the young philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
%T Wagner's Hitler : The Prophet and His Disciple
%T Wagners Hitler : Der Prophet und sein Vollstrecker
%M German
%A Joachim Köhler
%F Ronald Taylor
%D 2000
%C New Haven and London
%I Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd
%G ISBN 0 7456 2239 9
%K Hitler Köhler Kohler
%X A detailed study of the relationship between Richard Wagner and
Adolf Hitler. Köhler argues that the influence of Richard and Cosima
Wagner and their associates played a vital role in shaping the cultural
context in which Nazism developed. More controversially, Köhler claims
that both Wagner's writings and his music-dramas were a formative
influence on Hitler. Also that Hitler's experience of Wagner's stage
works (from 'Rienzi' to 'Parsifal') was the source of his megalomania.
%T Wagner and Beethoven : Richard Wagner's Reception of Beethoven
%A Klaus Kropfinger
%F Peter Palmer
%D 1991
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge University Press
%G ISBN 0 5213 4201 5
%K Beethoven
%X The impact of Beethoven's music on Wagner and its importance for his
conception of music drama.
%T Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics
%A David C. Large (ed)
%A William Weber (ed)
%D 1984
%C
%I Cornell University Press
%G ISBN 0 8014 9283 1
%K Wagnerism Bayreuth France Italy Russia Britain America USA
%X Wagner's influence of European and American culture, in such areas as
aesthetics, politics, theology and literature.
%T Wagner in Exile : 1849-62
%T Richard Wagners Verbannung und Ruckkehr 1849-1862
%M German
%A Woldemar Lippert
%F Paul England
%D 1930
%C London
%I G. G. Harrap & Co.
%K Exile Lippert
%X Original version was published in 1927
%T The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
%A Bryan Magee
%D 1997
%C Oxford
%I Oxford University Press
%G ISBN 0 1982 3722 7
%K Schopenhauer Philosophy Magee
%X Includes a chapter about Schopenhauer's influence on Wagner, one that
covers this subject in more depth than he does in his later book (see
below). Magee takes Wagner's attempt to correct Schopenhauer more
seriously than other commentators have done, explaining Wagner's problem
and his attempted solution in relation to "Tristan". Magee points out
the rather obvious (to anyone who has read Schopenhauer) traces of
Schopenhauer's influence on this drama and on "Die Meistersinger". In
his comments on "Parsifal" Magee overlooks some Schopenhauerean ideas in
this drama that have been examined by more recent writers, notably Ulrike
Kienzle in "Das Weltüberwindungswerk".
%T Wagner and Philosophy (UK title)
%T The Tristan Chord (US title)
%A Bryan Magee
%D 2000, 2001
%C Oxford, New York
%I Oxford University Press, Metropolitan Books
%G ISBN 0 7139 9480 0 (UK), ISBN: 0 8050 6788 4 (US)
%K Wagner Philosophy Magee
%X As Magee remarks at the beginning of this book, Wagner was the only one
of the "great composers" to take a serious interest in philosophy. His
later works would not be what they are without the ideas that he found in
the writings of contemporary philosophers (primarily Feuerbach in the
'Ring' and primarily Schopenhauer in 'Tristan', 'Mastersingers' and
'Parsifal'). Wagner's name is also closely associated with that of another
philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, although, as Magee explains, in this case
the influence flowed from composer to philosopher. The belief that there
was significant influence from Nietzsche to Wagner is one of those that
Magee shows to be false, in a chapter entitled "Wagner's Misleading
Reputation". Another falsehood is the view of Wagner as a proto-Nazi;
Magee devotes many pages to Wagner's political beliefs and activities. He
also discusses Wagner's attitude to religion and to the common ground of
religion and philosophy, i.e. metaphysics and ethics.
%T Wagner to 'The Waste Land' : A Study of the Relationship of Wagner to
English Literature
%A Stoddard Martin
%D 1982
%C London and Basingstoke
%I Macmillan
%G ISBN 0 333 28998 6
%K Literature Eliot Martin
%X
%T Joyce and Wagner : A Study of Influence
%A Timothy Martin
%D 1991
%C Cambridge UK
%I Cambridge Univ. Press
%G ISBN 0 521 39487 2
%K Literature Joyce Martin
%X
%T Wagner Androgyne : A Study in Interpretation
%T Wagner Androgyne : Essai sur l'interpretation
%M French
%A Jean-Jacques Nattiez
%F Stewart Spencer
%D 1993
%C Princeton NJ
%I Princeton University Press
%G ISBN 0 6910 4832 0
%K Nattiez Androgyne
%X The author's theme is that of androgyny in Wagner and his works. The
word androgyne is used here in a broader sense than "hermaphrodite",
however, Indeed it might be argued that he was not writing about
androgyny at all but about the complementary polarities of male and
female, or of the eternal masculine and the eternal feminine. It is
beyond doubt that Wagner regarded the union of these polarities as
necessary for the psychic health and wholeness both of individuals and
of society and that this need is a recurring theme in Wagner's dramas.
It also provides a sexual metaphor that dominates his most important
theoretical treatise "Opera and Drama". From this treatise together with
"The Art-Work of the Future" and other writings, Nattiez develops and
presents an interpretation of the "Ring" cycle as the history of music
and related arts, divided by the decline of classical tragedy and reborn
united in the total work of art, the art-work of the future. He then
returns to the theme of androgyny, attempts to psychoanalyse Wagner and
discusses a host of more or less related subjects. Although there is not
much in the book that is entirely original, in it Nattiez has drawn
together many disparate threads of analysis and interpretation which he
examines from a new angle, that of androgyny and gender.
%O Originally published in 1990 in French. The appendix containing a
translation of the first prose version of "Wieland the Smith" was
omitted from the American edition. The original German text, together
with an English translation by Spencer, can be found in "Wagner", 1994,
vol.10 no.1, pp.3-23.
%T Judith Gautier : A Biography
%A Joanna Richardson
%D 1986-87
%C London and New York
%I Quartet books
%G ISBN 0 7043 2483 0
%K Gautier
%X Judith Gautier was Wagner's muse during the composition of 'Parsifal'.
%T Wagner : Race and Revolution
%A Paul Lawrence Rose
%D 1992
%C London
%I Yale University Press
%G ISBN 0 3000 6745 3
%K Anti-Semitism Rose
%X See the discussion of Rose's theories in the general Wagner FAQ.
%T Richard Wagner and the English
%A Anna Dzamba Sessa
%D 1979
%C Madison and London
%I Associated Univ Press, Fairleigh Dickinson
%G ISBN 0 8386 2055 8
%K England
%X
%T The Racial Thinking of Richard Wagner
%A Leon Stein
%D 1950
%C New York
%I Philosophical Library
%K Race Stein
%X
%T Richard Wagner och den indiska tankevärlden
%T Richard Wagner und die Indische Geisteswelt (German translation)
%M Swedish
%A Carl Suneson
%F Gert Kreutzer (German translation)
%D 1985
%C Stockholm; Leiden
%I Almqvist and Wiksell International, Brill Academic Publishers Inc.
%G ISBN 91 22 00775 X (S), ISBN 9 0040 8859 8 (DE)
%S Stockholm Oriental Studies
%V 13
%K India Ceylon Buddhism Hinduism
%X This is the only extended study of Richard Wagner's interest in
Indian literature and religions, and their influence on his works. The
growth of Indian studies in the early nineteenth century was followed
with interest by Schopenhauer, who passed on this interest to his
disciple Richard Wagner. The Buddhist idea of renunciation in particular
appealed to Wagner during his relationship with Mathilde Wesendonk. His
use of Indian symbols and motifs in some of his later works reflects, in
Suneson's view, the conflict between ascetic and aesthetic strivings. In
this respect the unfinished music drama <SPAN CLASS=title>Die
Sieger</SPAN> (The Victors) stands alone as a work entirely based on an
Indian source. Suneson argues that the Indian elements in these later
dramas were introduced by Wagner not as exotic elements but as congenial
to his own personality and with his deepest felt artistic needs.
%O The original is in Swedish, but it has been translated into German.
%T Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination
%A Marc A. Weiner
%D 1995
%C Lincoln NE
%I University of Nebraska Press
%G ISBN 0 8032 4775 3
%K Anti-Semitism Body Odours Weiner
%X The theme of this book is Wagner and the body, but the book repeatedly
returns to the theme of Wagner's anti-Semitism. See the discussion of
this aspect of the book in the general Wagner FAQ.
%T The Buddhist Nirvana and its Western Interpreters
%A Guy Richard Welbon
%D 1968
%C Chicago and London
%I Univ. of Chicago Press
%K Burnouf Schopenhauer Nietzsche Buddhism
%X This book traces the history of Western Europe's contact with and
evaluation of Buddhism from the first references by Christian writers
to the beginning of the 20th century. It concentrates on the reception
of the alien concepts of Buddhism (and other religions of Indian origin)
after the first translations of Buddhist scriptures into European
languages appeared in the middle of the 19th century, with particular
reference to the concept of 'nirvana'. Western scholars had difficulties
in interpreting this concept and in reconciling the different meanings
with which it appeared in Mahayana scriptures, and later with those found
in Theravada scriptures. The author devotes a chapter to three non-
specialists who followed the scholarly dispute about the meaning of
'nirvana' with particular interest, and to their responses to 'nirvana':
Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche.
%T Richard Wagner and Festival Theater
%A Simon Williams
%D 1994
%C Westport CT and London
%I Praeger
%G ISBN 0 2759 3608 2 pbk 0 3132 7435 5 hbk
%K Festival
%X This biographical study focuses primarily on Wagner as an important
figure in the development of European theatre, in particular his
involvement with the founding of the Bayreuth Festival.
%T Wagner's Dramas and Greek Tragedy
%A Pearl Cleveland Wilson
%D 1919
%C New York
%I Columbia University Press
%K Greek Tragedy Wilson
%X
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Subject: VI. Wagner's Own Writings
For a general overview of Wagner's prose and poetry, or for an overview
of editions of his correspondence, please see the relevant sections of
the general Wagner FAQ. Unless otherwise stated, each of the following
books are in one volume.
%T Letters of Richard Wagner
%A William Altmann (ed)
%F M.M. Bozman
%D 1927
%C London and Toronto
%I
%K Letters Altmann Bozmann English
%V 2 volumes
%X
%T The Diary of Richard Wagner 1865-1882 : The Brown Book
%T Das Braune Buch : Tagebuchaufzeichningen 1865-1882
%M German
%A Richard Wagner
%A Joachim Bergfeld (ed)
%F George Bird
%D 1980
%C London
%I Victor Gollancz Ltd
%G ISBN 0 575 02628 6
%K Brown Book Bird English
%X Wagner's occasional diary and notebook.
%O Originally published in 1975
%T Letters of Richard Wagner : The Burrell Collection
%A John N. Burk (ed)
%D 1950-51
%C New York and London
%I
%K Letters Burrell Burk English
%X Translations of many of the letters collected by Mary Burrell.
%T Wagner's Aesthetics
%A Carl Dahlhaus (ed)
%D 1972
%C Bayreuth
%I
%K Aesthetics English
%X A selection from Wagner's writings.
%T On Conducting : A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music
%M German
%A Richard Wagner
%F Edward Dannreuther
%D 1989
%C New York
%I Dover Publications, Inc.
%G ISBN 0 4862 5932 3
%K Conducting Dannreuther English
%X Almost continually in print since it was written, Dannreuther's
translation is available as an alternative to that by Ellis.
%O Originally published in 1887
%T Letters of Hans Von Bülow to Richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner, his Daughter
Daniela, Luise Von Bülow, Karl Klindworth, and Carl Bechstein
%M German
%A Richard Du Moulin-Eckart (ed)
%D 1972
%C
%I Vienna House Inc.
%G ISBN 0 8443 0051 9
%K Buelow Bülow Moulin-Eckart
%X
%T Richard Wagner's Prose Works
%M German and French
%A Richard Wagner
%F William Ashton Ellis
%D 1993-96
%C Lincoln and London
%I Bison Books, Univ. of Nebraska
%G ISBN 0 8032 9763 N
%K Writings Ellis English
%X Ellis' translation is not always easy to read, but then neither is the
German original. Nor is the translation always accurate.
%O Originally published in 1892-99.
%T Family Letters of Richard Wagner
%F William Ashton Ellis
%A John Deathridge (ed)
%D 1991
%C Basingstoke
%I Univ of Michigan Press, Macmillan Reference
%G ISBN 0 4721 0292 3, ISBN 0 3334 4438 8
%K Letters Ellis Deathridge English
%X A collection of letters from Richard Wagner to his family, containing
material on his early years. First published at the beginning of the century,
this volume includes notes which comment on this historical translation in
the light of modern scholarship.
%O Originally published in 1911.
%T Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel : With a brief account of the
Bayreuth Festivals
%F William Ashton Ellis
%A Carl Heckel (ed)
%D 1899
%C London
%I Grant Richards
%K Heckel Bayreuth Ellis English
%X Also includes reminiscences of Wagner by Emil Heckel.
%T Richard to Minna Wagner : Letters to his First Wife
%F William Ashton Ellis
%D 1909
%C London
%I H. Grevel & Co.
%K Minna Letters Ellis English
%V 2 volumes
%X
%T Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonk
%M German
%F William Ashton Ellis
%D 1972
%C London
%I Vienna House Inc, Milford House
%G ISBN 0 8443 0010 1, ISBN 0 8782 1020 2
%K Mathilde Letters Ellis English
%X Essential background on 'Tristan', 'Parsifal' and 'Die Sieger'.
%O Originally published by Grant Richards, London, in 1905.
%T The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence
%A Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (ed)
%F Caroline V. Kerr
%D 1922
%C London
%I
%K Nietzsche Letters Kerr
%X Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth partly suppressed and altered some of
these letters, apparently in order to support her claims that her brother
had broken with Richard Wagner as a result of the latter's 'betrayal'.
With an introduction by H.L. Mencken. For a more complete picture of this
correspondence, see the 'Gesamtausgabe' edited by G. Colli and M. Montinari.
%T Wagner on Music and Drama : A Compendium of Richard Wagner's Prose Works
%A Richard Wagner
%A Albert Goldman (ed)
%A Evert Sprinchorn (ed)
%F William Ashton Ellis
%D 1993
%C New York
%I Da Capo Press
%G ISBN 0 3068 0319 4
%K Writings Goldman Sprinchorn English
%X Selections from Wagner's prose writings.
%O Previously published by Dutton in 1964.
%T Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
%A F. Hueffer
%A William Ashton Ellis
%D 1973
%C New York
%I Haskell House Pub Ltd
%G ISBN 0 8383 0316 1
%K Liszt Letters Hueffer Ellis
%X
%O Originally published by H. Grevel & Co., London, in 1897.
%T Re-reading Wagner
%A Reinhold Grimm (ed)
%A Jost Hermand (ed)
%D 1993
%C
%I Univ of Wisconsin Press
%G ISBN 0 2999 7076 0
%K Re-reading Grimm Hermand
%X
%T The Story of Bayreuth as Told in the Bayreuth Letters of Richard Wagner
%A Caroline V. Kerr
%D 1912
%C Boston MA and London
%I Small, Maynard & Co., James Nisbet & Co.
%K Letters Kerr English
%X
%T The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli
%F Elbert Lenrow
%D 1983
%C New York
%I Horizon Press
%G ISBN 0 8443 0104 3
%K Letters Pusinelli English
%X Also includes letters from Pusinelli to Wagner.
%O Originally published in 1932.
%T Richard Wagner's Letters to August Roeckel
%F E.C. Sellar
%D 1897
%C Bristol
%I J. W. Arrowsmith
%K Letters Roeckel English
%X With an introduction by Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
%T Cosima Wagner's Diaries
%T Cosima Wagner : Die Tagebücher 1869-1883
%M German
%A Cosima Wagner
%A Martin Gregor-Dellin (ed)
%A Dieter Mack (ed)
%F Geoffrey Skelton
%D 1978-1980
%C London and New York
%I William Collins Sons and Co Ltd
%G ISBN 0 00 216130 3 (vol. 1) and 0 00 216189 3 (vol. 2)
%K Cosima Diaries English
%V 2 volumes
%X After being suppressed for many years, the surviving text of the
diaries was published in German in 1976 and in English from 1978.
%O Originally published in 1976-1977.
%T Cosima Wagner's Diaries : An Abridgement
%M German
%A Cosima Wagner
%F Geoffrey Skelton
%D 1994
%C London and New York
%I Pimlico Press, Yale Univ Press, Rider and Co.
%G ISBN 0 3000 6904 9, ISBN 0 7126 5952 8
%K Cosima Diaries Abridgement
%X Selected entries from Cosima's diaries in English translation.
%T Three Wagner Essays
%A Richard Wagner
%F Robert Jacobs
%D 1979
%C London
%I St Martins Press
%G ISBN 0 3122 2696 9
%K Writings Essays Jacobs English
%X 'Music of the Future'; 'On Conducting' (slightly abridged) and 'On
Performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony'.
%T Richard Wagner : Stories and Essays
%A Richard Wagner
%F Charles Osborne
%D 1973
%C London
%I
%K Writings Stories Essays Osborne English
%X
%T Reading Wagner : A Study in the History of Ideas
%A Lelland Joseph Rather
%D 1990
%C Baton Rouge and London
%I Louisiana University State Press
%G ISBN 0 8071 1557 6
%K Ideas Rather
%X Consists mostly of extracts from Wagner's writings.
%T Richard Wagner's Letters to his Dresden Friends : Theodor Uhlig,
Wilhelm Fischer and Ferdinand Heine
%F J.S. Shedlock
%D 1890
%C London
%I Vienna House Inc.
%G ISBN 0 8443 0006 3
%K Letters Shedlock English
%X
%O Originally published in 1890.
%T Selected Letters of Richard Wagner
%F Stewart Spencer
%A Barry Millington (ed)
%D 1987, 1988
%C London, New York
%I J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd
%G ISBN 0 460 04643 8
%K Letters Selection English
%X A critical edition of over 500 letters in English translation.
%T Richard Wagner : Sämtliche Briefe
%A Werner Breig
%A Andreas Mielke
%A Gertrud Strobel
%A Werner Wolf
%A Hans-Joachim Bauer
%A Johannes Forner
%A Isabel Kraft
%D 1967-
%C Leipzig, Wiesbaden and Paris
%I Originally VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, now Breitkopf und Härtel
%K Letters Collected German
%V Ten volumes have been published in an edition that might eventually
contain thirty volumes.
%X All of Wagner's surviving letters in their original languages. The
letters published so far are from before 31 March 1859.
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Subject: VII. Wagner Family and Bayreuth
The following books are, wholly or partly, concerned with topics such as
the Festival Theatre, the Bayreuth Festival after 1883, and the "royal
family of Bayreuth".
%T Richard Wagner : Life, Work, Festspielhaus
%A Herbert Barth
%D 1952
%C Bayreuth
%I Verlag der Festspielleitung Bayreuth
%K Wagner Bayreuth Festival Theatre Theater
%X
%Q Festspielleitung Bayreuth
%T Richard Wagner : The Stage Designs and Productions from the Premieres
to the Present
%T Richard Wagner : Die Bühnenwerke von der Uraufführing bis heute
%M German
%A Oswald Georg Bauer
%D 1983
%C New York
%I Rizzoli
%G ISBN 0 8478 0478 X
%K Staging Bayreuth Bauer
%X With a foreword by Wolfgang Wagner.
%O Originally published in 1982.
%T The Centenary Ring in Bayreuth : a Critical Examination of the Tetralogy
which Marked the 100th Anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival
%T Der Jubiläums-Ring in Bayreuth 1976 : e. krit. Auseinandersetzung mit d.
Neu-Inszenierung d. Tetralogie zum 100jährigen Bestehen d. Bayreuther
Festspiele
%M German
%A Uwe Faerbe
%F Stewart Spencer
%D 1977
%C Berlin
%I Bote und Bock
%K Ring Chereau Boulez Faerbe
%X
%T Wagner, Bayreuth, and the Festival Plays
%A Frances Gerard
%D 1901
%C London
%I Jarrold & sons
%K Bayreuth Festival Gerard
%X With illustrations and specially engraved portrait of Wagner.
%T The Ring at Bayreuth : And Some Thoughts on Operatic Production
%A Victor Gollancz
%D 1966
%C London and New York
%I Victor Gollancz Ltd., E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc.
%K Bayreuth Ring Gollancz
%V
%X Gollancz was less than enthusiastic about some aspects of New Bayreuth.
Replying to these criticisms in his "afterword", Wieland Wagner states that
Richard Wagner's stage directions are now only of historical interest and
therefore do not constrain the modern stage director.
%T Bayreuth : The Early Years : an account of the Early Decades of the
Wagner Festival as seen by the Celebrated Visitors & Participants.
%A Robert Hartford (ed)
%D 1980
%C Cambridge and New York
%I Cambridge Univ. Press
%G ISBN 0 575 02865 3
%K Bayreuth Festival Hartford
%X The most important and interesting eye-witness accounts of the early
Bayreuth festivals, by such musical luminaries as Tchaikovsky and Grieg,
and a host of other interested observers.
%T Theater Design : with two essays on the room acoustics of multiple-use
%A George C. Izenour
%A Vern O. Knudsen
%A Robert B. Newman
%D 1977
%C New York
%I McGraw-Hill
%G ISBN 0 07 032086 1
%K Design Structure Acoustics Izenour
%X Contains a chapter about the design of the Festspielhaus.
%T The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and his Festival Theatre in Bayreuth
%T Le voyage artistique à Bayreuth
%M French
%A Albert Lavignac
%F Esther Singleton
%D 1969
%C New York and London
%I Haskell House Publishers
%K Bayreuth Festival Lavignac
%X Lavignac's book was written for French-speaking visitors to Bayreuth.
It contains an introduction to the town of Bayreuth, the Festival and its
theatre; a brief and rather inaccurate biography of Wagner (which is of
interest, however, as a document of the "official version" promoted by
Wahnfried some 25 years after Wagner's death); an analysis of the poems;
a separate analysis of the music (drawing on Wolzogen) and finally some
notes on performances of the music-dramas at the Bayreuth Festival from
1876 to 1896.
%O Originally published in 1898, reprinted 1917, 1921 and 1924.
%T Theatre and Playhouse : An Illustrated History of Theatre Building from
Ancient Greece to the Present Day
%A Richard Leacroft and Helen Leacroft
%D 1984
%C London
%I Methuen
%G ISBN 0 413 52940 1 pbk, 0 413 52930 4 hbk
%K Design Structure Acoustics Leacroft
%X
%T Bayreuth in 1912
%A Algernon Bertram Freeman Mitford, Lord Redesdale
%D 1912
%C London
%I Ballantyne Press
%K Mitford Redesdale Bayreuth Festival 1912
%X
%T Wieland Wagner : The Positive Sceptic
%A Geoffrey Skelton
%D 1971
%C London
%I Victor Gollancz Ltd
%G ISBN 575 00709 5 222
%K Wieland Skelton
%X
%T Wagner at Bayreuth : Experiment and Tradition
%A Geoffrey Skelton
%D 1976
%C London
%I Barrie & Rockliff
%K Bayreuth Festival Skelton
%X Foreword by Wieland Wagner.
%O Originally published in 1965.
%T Bayreuth : A History of the Wagner Festival
%A Frederic Spotts
%D 1994
%C New Haven and London
%I Yale University Press
%G ISBN 0 300 05777 6
%K Bayreuth Festival Spotts
%X A history of the festival and a chronicle of the Wagner family, those
"eccentric, feuding, scandalous descendants" of Richard and Cosima Wagner.
%T New Bayreuth
%A Penelope Turing
%D 1969
%C St. Martin, Jersey, C.I.
%I Jersey Artists (distributed by Spearman)
%K New Bayreuth Wieland Wolfgang
%X Turing first attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1952. This book contains
her reminiscences of that Festival and each subsequent Festival up to and
including that of 1968. Although her advice on travel arrangements is of
limited value today, Turing's suggestions for excursions on "spielfrei" days
during the Festival are worthy of consideration by modern pilgrims.
%T Heritage of Fire : The Story of Richard Wagner's Granddaughter
%T Nacht über Bayreuth: die Geschichte der Enkelin Richard Wagners
%M German
%A Friedelind Wagner
%A Page Cooper
%D 1945
%C New York and London
%I Harper & brothers
%K Family Friedelind Wagner
%X
%T He who does not howl with the wolf : the Wagner legacy, an autobiography
%T Twilight of the Wagners : the unveiling of a family's legacy (pbk title)
%T Wer nicht mit dem Wolf heult : autobiographische Aufzeichnungen eines
Wagner-Urenkels
%M German
%A Gottfried Wagner
%F Della Couling
%D 1998
%C London
%I Sanctuary
%G ISBN 1 86074 228 9 hbk, 1 86074 251 3 pbk
%K Family Feuds Gottfried Wagner
%X Gottfried explains at great length how his family have prevented him from
achieving anything with his life.
%T The Wagners : The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty
%T Wagner Theatre
%M German
%A Nike Wagner
%F Ewald Osers
%F Michael Downes
%D 2001
%C
%I
%G
%K Wagner Family Nike
%X Nike Wagner draws on history, biography, and psychoanalysis to
interpret both her family's history and her great-grandfather's operas.
%T The Wagner Family Albums : Bayreuth 1876-1976
%T Die Geschichte unserer Familie in Bildern : Bayreuth 1876-1976
%M German
%A Wolf Siegfried Wagner
%D 1976
%C London
%I Thames and Hudson
%K Family Wolf Siegfried Wagner English
%X With contributions by Winifred Wagner, Gertrud Wagner and Nike Wagner.
%T Richard Wagner und das neue Bayreuth
%A Wieland Wagner (ed)
%M German
%D 1962
%C
%I
%K New Bayreuth Wieland Wagner
%X
%T Acts : The Autobiography of Wolfgang Wagner
%T Lebens-Akte
%M German
%A Wolfgang Wagner
%F John Brownjohn
%D 1994
%C London
%I Weidenfeld and Nicolson
%G ISBN 0 297 81349 8
%K Family Festival Feuds Wolfgang Wagner
%X Wolfgang tells his version of the history of the Wagner family.
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Subject: VIII. Discographies
%T Tristan and Isolde on Record : A Comprehensive Discography of Wagner's
Music Drama With a Critical Introduction to the Recordings
%A Jonathan Brown
%D 2000
%C Westport, CT, and London
%I Greenwood Publishing Group
%G ISBN 0 313 31489 6
%K Discography Tristan
%X Lists recordings of complete performances, major selections, and excerpts,
both vocal and instrumental, with excerpts identified by musical incipits.
Precise information is given on date and place of recording, record numbers,
performers, and performing groups.
%T Parsifal on Record : A Discography of Complete Recordings, Selections,
and Excerpts of Wagner's Music Drama
%A Jonathan Brown
%D 1992
%C Westport, CT, and London
%I Greenwood Publishing Group
%G ISBN 0 313 28541 1
%K Discography Parsifal
%X Lists recordings of complete performances, major selections, and excerpts,
both vocal and instrumental, with excerpts identified by musical incipits.
Precise information is given on date and place of recording, record numbers,
performers, and performing groups.
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Subject: IX. Comics and Wagnerian Humour
Wagnerians do not have to be serious all the time.
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Subject: A. Comics
%T The Ring of the Nibelung
%A Roy Thomas (ed)
%A Gil Kane (art)
%A Jim Woodring (art)
%A John Costanza (art)
%D 1997
%C New York
%I Express Press
%G ISBN 0 9329 5620 3
%K Comic Ring
%V 4 volumes
%X Suggested for mature readers.
%O Originally published by DC Comics.
%T Parsifal
%A P. Craig Russell (art)
%A Patrick C. Mason (ed)
%D 1977-78
%C
%I Eclipse Books
%G ISBN 0 9130 3556 4 (with 'Salome' and 'Pelleas')
%K Comic Parsifal
%X
%O 3 parts. Originally published by Star*Reach Publications.
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Subject: B. Novels
%T Expecting Someone Taller
%A Tom Holt
%D 1987
%C
%I ISBN 1 857 232181 3
%K Humour Ring Tarnhelm
%X All he did was run over a badger - sad, but hardly catastrophic.
It wasn't Malcolm Fisher's day, for the badger turned out to be
none other than Ingolf, last of the giants. With his dying breath,
Ingolf reluctantly handed to Malcolm the ring and the tarnhelm.
%T Flying Dutch
%A Tom Holt
%D 1991
%C
%G ISBN 0 356 20111 2 pbk., ISBN 1 857 23017 5 hbk.
%K Humour Dutchman Odours
%X It's amazing the problems drinking can get you into. One little
swig from the wrong bottle and you go from being an ordinary Dutch
sea-captain to an unhappy immortal, drifting around the world with
your similarly immortal crew, suffering from peculiarly whiffy side
effects. Worst of all, Richard Wagner writes an opera about you.
%T Grailblazers
%A Tom Holt
%D 1994
%C
%G ISBN 1 857 23191 0 pbk., ISBN 1 857 23192 9 hbk.
%K Humour Parsifal Siegfried
%X The Grail knights have fallen to the level of pizza delivery.
One of the principal female characters from Wagner's 'Parsifal'
is central to this tale of the Holy Grail and the wholly inept.
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Subject: X. Acknowledgements and Copyright
This FAQ was created by and is maintained by Derrick Everett (mimirswell
@hotmail.com). The editor would like to thank the following individuals
who have helped and contributed to this document: Joao Pedro Baptista.
The author welcomes comments and contributions, especially in the form
of abstracts or brief reviews either of any of the books listed above or
of other books on related topics.
This bibliography was compiled with the assistance of the following online
databases, whose assistance is gratefully acknowledged:
Libris: Det nationella biblioteksdatasystemet (Royal Library, Sweden)
< http://www.libris.kb.se/english/ >
Library of Congress Online Catalog (Washington DC, USA)
< http://catalog.loc.gov/ >
OPAC-97, British Library (London, UK)
< http://www.bl.uk/services/bsds/nbs/opac97.html >
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