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Wagner writes from Paris: Stories, essays, and articles by the young composer

Arts & Photography

WAGNER, RICHARD

Music

Allen And Unwin

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My Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Constable & Robinson Ltd.

This reprint is of the first English paperback edition of Richard Wagner's autobiography. This is a primary document of enormous importance for all Wagner enthusiasts, being virtually the sole source of information of the composer's childhood and youth. Written for Wagner's second wife, Cosima, and his patron, King Ludwig II, the autobiography runs from the composer's birth up to the eve of his fifty-first birthday in 1864. Given the intended readership and the circumstances of its composition it is hardly surprising that Wagner should either omit or distort facts from time to time: he does not linger over previous affairs, he portrays his relationship with his first wife, Minna, as a good deal more distant than it really was and he plays down his involvement in the Dresden uprising of 1849. Despite all this, the book presents a panoramic view of Wagner's times and contemporaries and offers a unique perspective on the operas themselves. This translation is of the complete edition published in Munich in 1963 and based on the manuscript in the Wagner Archives in Bayreuth. Wagner's slips of memory are noted, as are references to obscure names and events.

Arts & Literature

A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner’s Ring Cycle, in a Penguin Classics hardcover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith The scale and grandeur of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas—The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried,and Twilight of the Gods—are complete worlds, conjuring up extraordinary mythological landscapes through sound as much as staging. Wagner wrote the entire libretto before embarking on the music. Discarding the grand choruses and bravura duets central to most operas, he used the largest musical forces in the context often of only a handful of singers on stage. The words were essential: he was telling a story and making an argument in a way that required absolute attention to what was said. The libretto for The Ring lies at the heart of nineteenth century culture. It is in itself a work of power and grandeur, and it had an incalculable effect on European and specifically German culture. John Deathridge’s superb new translation, with notes and a fascinating introduction, is essential for anyone who wishes to fully engage with one of the great musical experiences. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Ring of the Nibelung (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classics

The Ring of the Nibelung

A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle 'Smiling in sorrow I sing of love' The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy, cosmic conflict, the search for glory, spectacular self-sacrifice, redeeming human love and the downfall of gods, revolutionized the nature of opera and conjured up an entire mythological world. It is also one of the greatest texts ever written for the lyric stage, where words are not an adjunct to the music, but an essential part of a transformative experience. John Deathridge's superb new facing page translation of the Ring libretto conveys the pungency and vitality of Wagner's words, reflecting the work's literary power while retaining its sense and dramatic energy. 
Translated with an introduction and notes by John Deathridge

Parsifal: A Festival-Drama (Classic Reprint)

Poetry

Forgotten Books

Excerpt from The Rhinegold (Das Rheingold): Prologue to the Trilogy the Ring of the Nibelung (Vorspiel Zu Der Trilogie Der Ring Des Nibelungen) Alberich of the tribe of Nibelungs, a race of cun ning, demoniacal gnomes, who inhabit Nibelheim in the bowels of the earth. Hideous and uncouth, he seeks to win the pleasures of love from the nymphs. But though tantalizing him by their banter, they elude their awkward pur suer, who slips about on the slimy rocks until his gaze is attracted by an increasing brilliance which glows from a rocky eminence. It is the Rhinegold, which presently shines forth daz zlingly in the rays of the rising sun, and around which the maidens circle with joyous shouts. They jeeringly betray to Alberich that he alone who is willing to renounce the pleasures of love, can possess himself of the gold; but that by its possession in the shape of a magic ring he may make himself ruler and lord of the world. Seized with new desire, the Nibelung curses love, which for him is but lust, and scrambling madly up the rock, tears the gold from its bed and disappears in the depths. Night falls again upon the waters, and the Rhinedaughters break forth into wild lamentation. The billows sink, giving way to veils of mist, which, as they clear away, disclose Scene II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Rhinegold (Das Rheingold): Prologue to the Trilogy the Ring of the Nibelung (Vorspiel Zu Der Trilogie Der Ring Des Nibelungen) (Classic Reprint)

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Mein Leben; Volume 2 (German Edition)

Wentworth Press

Oper und Drama, Zweite Auflage (German Edition)

Dramas & Plays

Parsifal: Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel / [printed Music] (German Edition)

1847-1884, Rubinstein Joseph

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Wagner writes from Paris: Stories, essays, and articles by the young composer

My Life

My Life

The Ring of the Nibelung (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

The Ring of the Nibelung

Parsifal: A Festival-Drama (Classic Reprint)

The Rhinegold (Das Rheingold): Prologue to the Trilogy the Ring of the Nibelung (Vorspiel Zu Der Trilogie Der Ring Des Nibelungen) (Classic Reprint)

Mein Leben; Volume 2 (German Edition)

Oper und Drama, Zweite Auflage (German Edition)

Parsifal: Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel / [printed Music] (German Edition)