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Götterdämmerung in Full Score
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Series: Dover Opera Scores
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ISBN13: 9780486242507
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Mar 1 1982
Pages: 624
Weight: 3.81
Height: 1.33 Width: 9.43 Depth: 12.20
Language: English
Melding literary, philosophical, and political -- as well as musical -- influences in his works, Richard Wagner (1813-83) brought the expressive power of German romantic opera to new heights -- indeed, his music was its crowning glory. George Bernard Shaw, a critic not given to hyperbole, acknowledged Wagner's preeminent status in The Perfect Wagnerite: He was the summit of the nineteenth-century school of dramatic music.
Wagner began composing the musical drafts of Götterdämmerung in 1869. Five years later, the work was complete -- the capstone of an epic masterpiece that aroused near-religious fervor among its devotees. Shaw opined of the Ring as a whole: The musical fabric is enormously elaborate and gorgeous, while Grove's Dictionary offers this comment on the special appeal of Götterdämmerung: It is in the epic and reflective passages of Götterdämmerung, the narratives and orchestral epic of the Funeral March, that there unfurls that 'associative magic' praised so highly by Thomas Mann.
Götterdämmerung has never been available in the United States in full operatic score -- until now. Reprinted directly from the rare 1877 first edition, this is the score that Wagner himself approved with the instrumentation he intended. Except for the original title page, the German-language front matter has been omitted in this edition for reasons of space and replaced by an English translation.
New admirers of Wagner, opera enthusiasts, and all music lovers can savor the full heroic impact of this majestic musical achievement in Dover's characteristically inexpensive, superbly produced edition.
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