De volmaakte Wagneriaan: De Ring des Nibelungen toegelicht
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- De volmaakte Wagneriaan: De Ring des Nibelungen toegelicht
- Andere titel:
- The Perfect Wagnerite: a commentary on the Niblung's Ring
- Jaar:
- 1998
- Onderwerp:
- Wagner, Richard
19th Century (1801-1900)
Music history
Musical analysis
Opera
Mythology - Taal:
- Nederlands
- Uitgever:
- Amsterdam Wereldbibliotheek 1998
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.BIO WAGN1 e (Orpheus Instituut)
- ISBN:
- 978028418301
902841830X - Paginering:
- 142 pages
- Samenvatting:
- In 1885, 29-year-old Bernard Shaw was rescued by a friend from daily poverty and experienced rejection slips from numerous publishers: he got him a paid job as a journalist. In a short time, Shaw became a celebrated and feared author and critic: in addition to his own plays, he wrote about literature, painting, drama and music. The Perfect Wagnerian, his essay on the 'Ring des Nibelungen', was published in 1898, at the height of his fame as a polemicist and critic.‘I am not one of “Art for art's sake”,’ Shaw once remarked to Tolstoy. ‘I wouldn't make any effort to create a work of art if I knew there wouldn't be more in it.’ In The Perfect Wagnerite, Shaw sets out his vision of Wagner's music and the ideas behind it, and inimitably shows how much more there is in a work of art like the 'Ring des Nibelungen'. Shaw's fabulous knowledge of music, theatre and politics guarantees an explanation that highlights the dramatic and musical aspects, but also addresses the socially critical side of the 'Ring'. (Translated with DeepL.com)
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