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Wagner and Beethoven

Wagner and Beethoven

Kropfinger, Klaus
Palmer, Peter

Hardcover

MusiciansOpera

ISBN10: 0521342015
ISBN13: 9780521342018
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jul 4 1991
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.29 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
This book analyzes the lifelong impact of Beethoven's music on Wagner and its importance for his conception of music drama. Kropfinger charts and scrutinizes Wagner's early responses to the composer and considers his experience as a conductor of Beethoven's music. A discussion of the Romantic Beethoven image leads to a careful study of Wagner's aesthetic writings, including his programmatic explanations, the text Concerning Franz Liszt's symphonic poems, and his Beethoven centenary essay. The penultimate chapter addresses Wagner's theory and practice of music drama, which he came to regard as the preordained successor to the Beethoven symphony. By analyzing special terms--such as Leitmotiv--Wagner's structural view of musical drama comes to the fore; it is a view that deepens not only our understanding of musical drama as a hybrid genre of art but also of purely musical structure and forms that Wagner sought to outdo.

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