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The Resource My life with Wagner : fairies, rings, and redemption : exploring opera's most enigmatic composer, Christian Thielemann

My life with Wagner : fairies, rings, and redemption : exploring opera's most enigmatic composer, Christian Thielemann

Creator
Summary
"This book is based on conversations that took place between August 2010 and July 2011 in Bayreuth, Berlin, Salzburg and on the Attersee"--Acknowledgements (page 252)
Language
  • eng
  • ger
  • eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Extent
xiv, 267 pages, [16] pages of plates
Note
  • Originally published in English: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015
  • Translated from German: Mein leben mit Wagner. München : C.H. Beck, 2012
Contents
  • I. "You haven't been playing the organ, have you?": my way to Wagner
  • II. Wagner; s cosmos
  • 1. Wagalaweia and Hojotoho!: a first approach to Wagner's music drama
  • 2. "If you weren't all such tedious fellows": Wagner and his conductors
  • 3. Cobwebs, solemnity, sausage salad: Bayreuth and its Green Hill
  • 4. A very German subject: the ideological aspect
  • 5. "If we want Wagner, then Wagner is what we want", or: what makes a good performance?
  • 6. Money or love: Wagner for beginners
  • III. Wagner's music drama
  • 1. Die Feen (The Fairies): a first look inside Wagner's botanizing drum
  • 2. A sin of Wagner's youth and a hymn to Carnival: Das Liebesverbot oder Die Novize von Palermo (The ban on love, or The novice of Palermo)
  • 3. Defeating grand opera with its own weapons: Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the Tribunes)
  • 4. Plain, meagre, gloomy?: Der fliegende Holländer, oder der Fluch des Willens (The flying Dutchman, or The curse of the will)
  • 5. Tannhäuser und der S̈ngerkrieg auf der Wartburg (Tannhäuser and the singers' contest on the Wartburg): the art of moderation and Wagner's failure to achieve it
  • 6. A floodlight on the world beyond, love without regret: Lohengrin
  • 7. Tristan und Isolde: the chord of life
  • 8. A plea for tolerance: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The mastersingers of Nuremberg)
  • 9. Money, power or love? Painting the world in sunset colours: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ring of the Nibelung)
  • 10. An anti-Tristan composed in violet ink: Parsifal
Isbn
9781681771250
Instance
Label
My life with Wagner : fairies, rings, and redemption : exploring opera's most enigmatic composer
Title
My life with Wagner
Title remainder
fairies, rings, and redemption : exploring opera's most enigmatic composer
Statement of responsibility
Christian Thielemann
Creator
Subject
Language
  • eng
  • ger
  • eng
Summary
"This book is based on conversations that took place between August 2010 and July 2011 in Bayreuth, Berlin, Salzburg and on the Attersee"--Acknowledgements (page 252)
Member of
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
BTCTA
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1959-
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Thielemann, Christian
Dewey number
  • 782.1092
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
  • plates
  • facsimiles
Index
index present
LC call number
ML410.W13
LC item number
T4513 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Wagner, Richard
  • Thielemann, Christian
Label
My life with Wagner : fairies, rings, and redemption : exploring opera's most enigmatic composer, Christian Thielemann
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Originally published in English: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015
  • Translated from German: Mein leben mit Wagner. München : C.H. Beck, 2012
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
I. "You haven't been playing the organ, have you?": my way to Wagner -- II. Wagner; s cosmos -- 1. Wagalaweia and Hojotoho!: a first approach to Wagner's music drama -- 2. "If you weren't all such tedious fellows": Wagner and his conductors -- 3. Cobwebs, solemnity, sausage salad: Bayreuth and its Green Hill -- 4. A very German subject: the ideological aspect -- 5. "If we want Wagner, then Wagner is what we want", or: what makes a good performance? -- 6. Money or love: Wagner for beginners -- III. Wagner's music drama -- 1. Die Feen (The Fairies): a first look inside Wagner's botanizing drum -- 2. A sin of Wagner's youth and a hymn to Carnival: Das Liebesverbot oder Die Novize von Palermo (The ban on love, or The novice of Palermo) -- 3. Defeating grand opera with its own weapons: Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the Tribunes) -- 4. Plain, meagre, gloomy?: Der fliegende Holländer, oder der Fluch des Willens (The flying Dutchman, or The curse of the will) -- 5. Tannhäuser und der S̈ngerkrieg auf der Wartburg (Tannhäuser and the singers' contest on the Wartburg): the art of moderation and Wagner's failure to achieve it -- 6. A floodlight on the world beyond, love without regret: Lohengrin -- 7. Tristan und Isolde: the chord of life -- 8. A plea for tolerance: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The mastersingers of Nuremberg) -- 9. Money, power or love? Painting the world in sunset colours: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ring of the Nibelung) -- 10. An anti-Tristan composed in violet ink: Parsifal
Control code
1664672
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Extent
xiv, 267 pages, [16] pages of plates
Isbn
9781681771250
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
facsimiles, illustrations, portraits
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 1664672
  • (OCoLC)923794429
Label
My life with Wagner : fairies, rings, and redemption : exploring opera's most enigmatic composer, Christian Thielemann
Publication
Note
  • Originally published in English: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015
  • Translated from German: Mein leben mit Wagner. München : C.H. Beck, 2012
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
I. "You haven't been playing the organ, have you?": my way to Wagner -- II. Wagner; s cosmos -- 1. Wagalaweia and Hojotoho!: a first approach to Wagner's music drama -- 2. "If you weren't all such tedious fellows": Wagner and his conductors -- 3. Cobwebs, solemnity, sausage salad: Bayreuth and its Green Hill -- 4. A very German subject: the ideological aspect -- 5. "If we want Wagner, then Wagner is what we want", or: what makes a good performance? -- 6. Money or love: Wagner for beginners -- III. Wagner's music drama -- 1. Die Feen (The Fairies): a first look inside Wagner's botanizing drum -- 2. A sin of Wagner's youth and a hymn to Carnival: Das Liebesverbot oder Die Novize von Palermo (The ban on love, or The novice of Palermo) -- 3. Defeating grand opera with its own weapons: Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the Tribunes) -- 4. Plain, meagre, gloomy?: Der fliegende Holländer, oder der Fluch des Willens (The flying Dutchman, or The curse of the will) -- 5. Tannhäuser und der S̈ngerkrieg auf der Wartburg (Tannhäuser and the singers' contest on the Wartburg): the art of moderation and Wagner's failure to achieve it -- 6. A floodlight on the world beyond, love without regret: Lohengrin -- 7. Tristan und Isolde: the chord of life -- 8. A plea for tolerance: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The mastersingers of Nuremberg) -- 9. Money, power or love? Painting the world in sunset colours: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ring of the Nibelung) -- 10. An anti-Tristan composed in violet ink: Parsifal
Control code
1664672
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Extent
xiv, 267 pages, [16] pages of plates
Isbn
9781681771250
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
facsimiles, illustrations, portraits
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 1664672
  • (OCoLC)923794429

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