Paul Brian Heise

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Prequel to the Ring of the Nibelung

How Wagner's Three Canonical Operas (the Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, and Lohengrin) Paved the Way to His Mature Music Dramas

Beschreibung

Following his allegorical interpretation of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, this installment of Heise's Wagner project demonstrates how the composer employed key facets of the plots of The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin in building the allegorical superstructure which culminated in the Ring.

Autor

Paul Brian Heise has studied the works of Richard Wagner since 1971. While pursuing graduate studies in anthropology at Southern Illinois University, he developed an argument that Wagner's works could be understood as an allegory and withdrew from formal studies to devote his life to discovering and sharing his wholesale reassessment of the meaning of Wagner's dramas and their music. Heise has published extensively on Wagner, including The Wound That Will Never Heal: An Allegorical Interpretation of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung (Academica Press, 2021), and, with the support of the late British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, the website www.wagnerheim.com, an online compendium of Heise's thoughts about Wagner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academica Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781680532951
• ISBN-10: 1680532952
• Artikelnr.: 70125550