Overview
How did Wagner's experiences in Paris influence his works and social character? And how does his sometime desire for recognition by the French cultural establishment square with his German national identity and with the related idea of a universally valid art? Friedrich Nietzsche more than once claimed that Wagner's only true home was in Paris. This book is the first major study to trace Wagner's relationship with Paris from his first sojourn there (1839-1842) to the Paris Tannhauser (1861). How did Wagner's experiences in Paris influence his works and social character? How does his sometime desire for recognition by the French cultural establishment square with his German national identity and with the related idea of a universally valid art? This book presents Wagner's perennial ambition of an international operatic success in the ""capital city of the nineteenth century"" and the paradoxical consequences of that ambition upon its failure. Through an examination of previously neglected source materials, the book engages with ideas in the so-called ""Wagner debate"" as an ongoing philosophical project that tries to come to terms with the composer's Germanness. The book is in three main parts arranged broadly in chronological sequence. The first considers Wagner's earliest years in Paris, focusing on his own French-language drafts of Das Liebesverbot and Der fliegende Hollander. The second part explores his stance towards Paris ""at a distance"" following his return to Saxony and subsequent political exile. Arriving at Wagner's most often discussed ""Paris period"" (1859-61), the third part interrogates the concert performances under the composer's direction at the Theatre-Italien and revisionist aspects of their reception. JEREMY COLEMAN is Lecturer in Music in the School of Performing Arts, Universityof Malta.
Full Product Details
Author: Jeremy Coleman (Author)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.506kg
ISBN: 9781783274420
ISBN 10: 1783274425
Pages: 219
Publication Date: 18 October 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Original, valuable and highly absorbing, especially where it unpacks new and exhilarating discourses from fields other than musicology...a fascinating story. THE WAGNER JOURNAL
In his new book, Jeremy Coleman gives us a three-part study of Wagner's encounters with the City of Light [. . .], meticulously based on nearly all the latest research in German, French, and English. [. . .] I enjoyed reading this book. [. . .] It adopts a focus that is fresh, namely upon the act and significance of translation. WAGNER NOTES [Peter Bloom] Original, valuable and highly absorbing, especially where it unpacks new and exhilarating discourses from fields other than musicology...a fascinating story. THE WAGNER JOURNAL The Parisian part of Wagner's journey is just that - a part - and Jeremy Coleman persuades us that it's not just a part that matters, but a part without which the whole could have been very different. MUSICAL TIMES [Arnold Whittall]
